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Our first grade reading worksheets help young readers work on essential early reading skills. These printable reading worksheets allow kids to build their vocabulary, read short narratives, practice reading comprehension, and more. From bingo to word matching to flashcards, we have multiple ways to make learning to read fun. You can also check out our first grade writing worksheets for more practice.

Tips for Teaching First Grade Reading

First grade reading is an important phase in your child's literacy development. Not only does it build upon the phonics skills introduced in kindergarten, but it prepares children for chapter books in second grade. For more support with phonics, check out our phonics worksheets. By the end of first grade, early readers should be able to:

• Interpret illustrations in order to make meaning about a text.
• Decode unknown words.
• Determine cause and effect within various texts.
• Question the author's meaning.
• Predict what they think will happen next in a story.
• Know what types of books they love the best!

29 Fun and Easy 1st Grade Reading Comprehension Activities

First grade is such an important time for a child. They are becoming more independent in a variety of ways! One of the most important aspects of this independence is their reading. Reading will be the foundation for everything they do in the future. This is why reading comprehension comes in full force during these pivotal developmental years.

Building comprehension skills can be a daunting experience for parents, caregivers, and educators. This is most likely why you ended up here. Keep reading for a total breakdown of some of the best comprehension strategies that can be both used at home and in the classroom!

In first grade, we LOVE puzzles. This is why puzzle retelling builds such excellent comprehension skills. Using background knowledge helps kids to be confident and excited about a comprehension activity. Puzzle retelling is also super easy to set up!

Learn more: teacherspayteachers.com

2. Five Finger Retell

Any elementary teacher will tell you how much they love the 5-finger retelling comprehension activity. This activity gives students the visual of retelling a story. It’s also, so much fun! Teachers have been known to incorporate finger puppets, a comprehension worksheet, and many different creative comprehension strategies.

Learn more: teacherspayteachers.com

Sight word practice is one of the all-important reading and comprehension skills for Grade 1. Creating active readers by building vocabulary through an active vocabulary game is one of the best ways to keep your children engaged. Here are a few great sight word comprehension activities.

Cute story sticks are always a great way to teach sight words! This is something you can easily make for your classroom and at home!

Bingo is always a favorite! It is great and always a highly rated vocabulary game. Here you'll find a FREE resource that allows you to generate a bingo card based on the sight words students are learning and the basis of their background knowledge.

There are so many colorful reading comprehension reading worksheets that go along with sight word vocabulary. There are tons of these worksheets throughout the web, here is a FREE resource to see how your students and children will respond.

First grade is a time of discovery for children. Visualizing and making mental images is an exciting time for young learners. Providing them with the comprehension skills they need for a love of reading. Mental images can be a great way to incorporate writing prompts into your child’s reading comprehension activities.

Mrs. Jump’s class has some great comprehension activities. Here are some mental image comprehension activities!

Comprehension checks may not sound that exciting BUT they can always be fun! Your children will love all of the colorful reading comprehension worksheets that come with comprehension checks. You can make them yourself quite easily, which makes them perfect for at home or in the classroom. Here are some resources for your classroom!

Brain Movies are a great way to build student comprehension skills. Making a Brain Movie is easy for you and for your students. Here is a great way to incorporate it into your classroom.

During a read-aloud, pause when you come across a descriptive passage. Have students close their eyes and picture what is happening, while you are reading! This blog gives a great breakdown of how to incorporate this in your classroom and the importance of Brain Movies incorporation.

Printable story mats are easy to make and great for comprehension! You can make them any size that fits your needs. You can find a free download online here.

Puppets are a great way to get your students engaged, active, and laughing. Puppets can be used for a variety of comprehension activities. Here is a blog that gives an amazing breakdown for using puppets to build comprehension skills.

Modeling active reading with your students is extremely important when reading anything. It is important to discuss what is happening in the story as you read. This will help your child to understand and empathize with the characters.

Make sure to ask questions that the child can relate to - Have you ever felt this way? What do you think happened? How do you think he/she/it feels? - Provoking and furthering a child’s thinking process will most definitely help their comprehension skills.

Here is a great blog post to help you practice active reading in the classroom and at home.

Think-alouds are one of the most amazing comprehension tactics! Think-alouds give students the space to make connections in their lives. When practicing the think-aloud comprehension strategy you should always connect a book back to a time that the child can relate to.

By connecting the book to other book’s the child has read, the child’s life experiences, and the ideas and lessons in the book you are helping to build a relationship with books. Here is a great blog that will help you use this comprehension strategy.

Incorporating media into the classroom has long been a part of the newest curriculum. It can sometimes be difficult to use media effectively in your ELA curriculum. This video can be used as an entire class, or in small groups. Either way, it will help you to assess students on their knowledge of reading aloud or in their heads and answering questions.

Learn more: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

This is another video that will be perfect for your kiddos to complete on their own or in small groups. Listening to others read is very important for first grade, language development. In this video, students will listen to the story and answer the questions that follow.

Learn more: Hand 2 Mind

Wordwall provides some of the most entertaining lessons on the web! These lessons are created and shared by other teachers. The activity below can be used in both small groups or as a whole group lesson to assess where your students are in their level of comprehension!

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The random wheel is such a fun classroom integration. Project this wheel on a smartboard and have students spin on their turn. Whether students answer these questions in small groups or individually, they will love to play. The best part about this random wheel is that it can be used with any story.

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Another amazing activity offered by Word Wall is "Open the Box". This activity resembles a bit like the random wheel, but students are asked to click on a box instead of spinning the wheel. Put a twist on this game and use the questions to make your very own classroom board!

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Giving even our youngest learners a clear understanding of exactly what is expected from a lesson is vital to their success. This video provides students and teachers with a better understanding of what it means to visualize. Understanding vocabulary can make explanations and student understanding that much stronger at the end of the day.

Learn more: Shannon McGilloway

It's important to note that most stories that are aimed at younger students have some sort of connection to their feelings. Therefore, using a visualization strategy that connects the story to different feelings a child might have, could be vital to helping them better understand and comprehend the story.

Learn more: Toni Allen

Any teacher knows that songs help students to remember and understand different strategies and lessons. Just like with anything else, making a song for visualizing a story will help students refer back to their understanding. This song is great for exactly that and it's definitely one to get stuck in your head!

Learn more: Teacher Friend

Being able to retell the story is part of the common core curriculum in first grade. It's important to provide students with a variety of different stories throughout your lessons. With some being ones they know by heart and others being totally new. Use this short Tortoise and the Hare read aloud and have students reenact it!

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Well, just like with visualizing, it's pretty evident that teachers know how important songs are to students' understanding and comprehension. This song is perfect for being able to retell the story. Students will have a better understanding of the different parts of the story, making it easier for them to understand and retell the story.

Learn more: Jack Hartmann Kids Music Channel

In a world that is centralized around distance learning and working from home, it's important to have materials ready to go in an event that students won't be in school. This video does just that and provides details for both students, teachers, and even parents to have a full grasp of the learning objective.

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Another very fun activity for reading comprehension is understanding different character traits! A simple and fun way to do this in first grade is to make a poster together about one of the student's favorite stories. First, read the story together and then create a poster that can be displayed in the classroom.

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This is a pre-reading comprehension strategy that can really be tailored for any grade, age, or story! This dot to dot activity with help to activate prior knowledge and build vocabulary that may arise in the story.

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There's no doubt that reading comprehension and fluidity go hand in hand. Constant practice with students' reading skills, will ultimately help them to improve their comprehension skills.

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This video will walk students through a read-aloud and retelling activity. The best part about this video is that you can take it and complete it with students or send it home for an at-home distance learning activity. Tailor is to your curriculum and enjoy!

Learn more: The Elementary ELL Teacher, Mrs. Brenda Pearson

In all honestly, bringing a game show on the computer into the classroom can be a total hit or miss. Although, this particular game show is right at the level of most first graders! Making it that much more engaging. At the end have your students join the leaderboard and see if you can get to #1.

Learn more: Worldwall

Exercises for developing reading skills 1-kov | Reading material (grade 1) on the topic:

Exercises for the development of reading skills for students of primary school age

The main purpose of these exercises is to improve reading skills, since poor reading technique invariably affects reading comprehension. For a novice reader, the understanding of the word read often does not go along with reading, but after it, when he traces the entire letter sequence.

Gradually the eye gets the opportunity to run ahead and understanding is carried out along with reading. We list the most significant exercises of this set:

1. Read columns and lines of words in a circle in whole words, repeating after each all the previous words as quickly as possible. FOR EXAMPLE: HOUSE, HOUSE - TOOTH, HOUSE - TOOTH - NOSE, HOUSE - TOOTH - NOSE - FOREST, HOUSE - TOOTH - NOSE - FOREST - CHEESE, ...

2. Read as one word the service words with the word to to which they refer. For example: in the forest, along the river; and said.

3. Read the tongue twister repeatedly from beginning to end “in a circle”, gradually increasing the reading speed, pointing to the word you are reading with your finger. Arrange a competition with the help of domer seconds.

4. Choose 2-3 sentences, read the first word, and then, quickly repeating the first word again, read the second; repeating the first two, read the third, and so on until the end. FOR EXAMPLE: "SE LI". "GEESE SET". "GEESE ON THE WAVE". “GEESE ON THE WAVE IN THE EVENING” Try to read the previous words faster and faster each time, reaching the end of the sentence, read it again.

5. Do the exercises for placing logical stress (highlighting the most important words in meaning with your voice. Read, placing logical stress in the question and answer:

Is that Maruska the cat? This cat is Maruska.

Is that Maruska the cat? This cat is Maruska.

Is that Maruska the cat? This cat is Maruska.

6. Perform exercises to regulate the pace of reading.

Reading pace: SLOWLY, but in whole words, smoothly. AVERAGE - the norm of reading with all the rules of expressiveness. FAST - tongue twister.

7. Reading passages at different paces.

a) Reading, with a change in the strength of the voice: QUIET - NORMALLY - LOUD; LOUD - QUIET - NORMALLY;

b) Combinations of voice intensity and reading tempo: SLOW - LOUD; FAST - QUIET;

8. Read only ahead without repeating what you have read. When reading a sentence, try to remember similar pictures and try to convey your attitude to what you read.

9. Choose 2-3 sentences and read them one by one with the adult, writing down the time:

Adult: 23 sec, 21 sec, 19 sec, 17 sec.

Child: 1 min. 16 sec, 1 min, 50 sec, 46 sec

Next, specific tasks are proposed according to the type of which each teacher can compose similar ones. The purpose of these exercises is to improve the technical success of reading a younger student without violence, based on the development of interest in this type of activity.

1.. Find in each column the words that differ by one letter. Connect them with an arrow.

MAK

Cat User

Roth KIT

Cancer ROG

2. Similar and how they are different.

WOOD and BUSH, PEN and PENCIL, BRIEFCASE and BAG

za-zu-zy-zi-za-za

4. Correct the mistakes.

Beats like a fish against honey.

Lazy man and fool - two native gates.

5. Read the sentences with question and answer intonation.

Rooks fly south in autumn. In autumn, rooks fly south. In autumn, rooks fly south. In autumn, the rooks fly south.

6. Read and write the names of birds. To do this,

you need to rearrange the syllables.

NITSASI ROCASO VEILOSO LINFI

Read the words in columns and rows “in a circle”

8. Read one word at a time. Where will you pause and take a breath?

The bear does not pluck one berry at a time, but sucks the weight of the entire bush.

9. Read the sentence with intonation: surprise, condemnation, indignation.

Well, you are greedy, bear!

10. Read: at first quietly, and finish reading very loudly; very loudly at first, and then very quietly.

Look, if you overeat, your stomach will hurt.

11. What do you think they are? Connect the words with arrows.

Wolf Cautious, cunning.

Fox Angry, greedy.

Hare is thrifty, shy.

12. Put the mixed up syllables correctly:

breath-kognez

dot-ki-fox

goal-and-ki

-dy-ra-ki-you

la-pa-ra-no-sha-lun

14. Find a name in each line and write next to it.

FYVAIVANGOR _________

SASHAITYUBLT _____________

ONMAKNGTANYA _________________

15. Read the sentences. Follow your inhalation and exhalation.

There was a thunderstorm (inhale) and thunder. There was a thunderstorm and thunder, (exhale). Sasha could not hear (inhale) whether the storm had passed.

16. Highlight the underlined words with your voice.

Why are the whales silent? Do not say anything.

Why are whales silent? Do not say anything.

Why are whales silent? Do not say anything.

17. Read the sentence with intonations: surprise, doubt, joy.

"It's good in the forest in autumn!"

17.a) Accompany the phrase: "I am very happy" with various gestures:

- joyfully extend your hand for greeting,

- withdraw your hand in fear,

- angrily threaten with your finger,

- shake your shoulders indifferently 02 -

call slyly to you.

18. Read the words in order of increasing action:

flashed, passed, ran

19. Match the proverbs on the left with the half on the right.

Learning is light, and

are escorted according to the minds, and there will be no boredom

do not sit in the fold of hands and ignorance - darkness

20. Right a mistake.

Horn to the ears - at least the ties are sewn on.

21. Read the tongue twister "in a circle", increasing the speed.

Our Polkan fell into a trap.

22. Read the sentences, distributing the breath correctly.

(inhale) And his house without a stove (inhale) is \just a dog house, (inhale) \and there is a bed of straw, (inhale) \and he is not cold.

23. What syllable should be added to make words? Write these words.

Miss___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ cups ______ 90 003 90 002 24. The names of animals are hidden among the letters. Find and highlight.

FYVAPRENOTTM

YACHSMEDVED

EZHDVORONAPA

KENROMYSHI

25. Read the sentences, highlighting the highlighted words with your voice

Set the pauses "/".

The fox drags the children either a mouse, or a bird, or a hare. He sits aside and watches how the cubs learn to catch prey.

26. Match these words with words with opposite meanings.

Deep-? Long-?

Pure - ? sad-?

Sit - ?

27. Read prepositions with words as one word.

Fishing from the water to the river on the shore behind the float

28. Correct the mistakes.

In the absence of fish and a tank - fish.

Fashion does not flow under a lying stone.

Buy a whale in a bag.

29. In what order can these words be put?

Stream, puddle, pond, river, sea, ocean, lake

30. Read the words and find among them those that can be read backwards.

RIVER, KAZAK, BAG,

BACKPACK, HOUSE, BIRCH.

31. Answer. Who is flying? Runs? Floats?

Magpie, dog, sparrow, pike, hare, bream, crow, stork, seal, bullfinch, crane, bee, giraffe, mouse, perch, wolf, tit, shark.

32. Cross out the letters that are repeated twice. What is written?

Tyuigufrzhyadyshchykbemz Vyazlchaeedsopoprozoprozobushp

33. Pinocchio emphasized the letters as on the sample: a and B. Find errors.

J T U A K E N A G S B S S D F X B F A Y V A P E R O L E J E A Y C S E B I A T B Y Y C B

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Literary reading is one of the most important lessons at school in the 1st grade. Primary school teachers teach children at school to read words, sentences and various works: G. Kh. Andersen "Thumbelina", A. S. Pushkin "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish", K. I. Chukovsky " Tsokotukha fly”, “Fedorino grief”, “Doctor Aibolit”, E. Uspensky “Crocodile Gena and his friends”, Russian folk tale “Zayushkina hut”, “Cat, rooster and fox”, “Turnip”, poem by S. V Mikhalkov "Uncle Styopa", proverbs, riddles, stories, etc.

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