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What does reading support look like in first grade?
We work with students 30 minutes a day, usually during the WIN block, using a structured literacy lesson format. Instruction is sequential and explicit, focusing mainly on the foundational reading skills first graders need to become proficient readers. All of our activities are based on assessment information and students are progress monitored regularly to make sure they are grasping the concepts.
Some of the components of our daily lessons include:
Phonemic Awareness
Visual Drills of letters and sounds
Auditory Drills (sound dictation)
Introduction of a new phonics pattern or skill
Irregular high frequency word practice
Dictated writing
Reading text that connects to our phonics patterns
How Can I Help at Home?
Read to your child every night! Make predictions and talk about what is happening in the story.
Encourage your child to read books and passages with lots of decodable words (words that can be sounded out). These words usually have short vowel sounds at this point...ex. dog, cat, tub... There are passages to practice below.
Phonemic Awareness Skills-
Parent Newsletter (helpful tips to support what's happening in the classroom)
Blending Onset and Rime
Listen as I say the FIRST SOUND and the rest of the word. Then blend it into one WORD. b-at = bat
Isolating Onset from Rime
Listen to the WORD bat. What's the FIRST SOUND (ONSET)? /b/
Adding Onset to Rime
Say -at Now add /b/. What's the word?
Click here for ideas on how to help at home.
Phonics- firming up consonant sounds (especially letters j, h, y, w, qu, v); short vowel sounds; blending letters together to read and write cvc words
EXAMPLE OF A BLENDING ACTIVITY
SOUND OUT THE WORD
READ THE WORD
SAY THE WORD AND MAKE IT WITH MAGNETIC OR VIRTUAL LETTERS
WRITE THE WORD
FCRR RESOURCES FOR EXTRA PRACTICE
THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR READING RESEARCH HAS SEVERAL GAMES, AND ACTIVITIES YOU CAN PRINT OUT FOR EXTRA PRACTICE IN VOCABULARY, FLUENCY, PHONICS, AND COMPREHENSION.
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