Reading lessons 1st grade

First Grade Reading Comprehension Activities

First grade is an exciting time of discovery for early readers. They’re spending less time decoding and word solving and more time comprehending and making sense of the texts they’re reading. Early readers are building reading identities and reading for meaning and joy. Explicitly teaching reading comprehension strategies like making predictions, asking questions, retelling, and inferring helps young readers build the skills they need. These first grade reading comprehension activities are a good place to start.

1. String up a retelling rope

Learning how to retell a story helps young learners as readers and thinkers. It helps them organize their thoughts as they read and recognize when their thinking changes. Using these symbols representing different elements of a story, students can string up a cute retelling rope while gaining valuable comprehension skills.

Learn more: First Grade W.O.W.

2. Visualize the story with illustrations

Visualizing is an important skill for understanding what you’re reading. This blog includes two fun visualizing activities. In the first, students are given a title and are asked to draw an illustration that matches that title. In the second, students are given clues about an object and are asked to draw the object the clues are hinting at.

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3. Make predictions with a graphic organizer

Making predictions is a just-right reading strategy for emerging readers. During a read-aloud, find a few good stopping points to ask students what they think will happen next.

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4. Make a “beginning, middle, and end” flip chart

One tried-and-true way to teach summarizing to early readers is instructing them to identify the beginning, middle, and end of a story. This easy-to-make flip chart is just an 8 x 11 piece of plain paper folded vertically then divided into thirds. On the front half, students will draw a picture of what happens in the three sections of the story. Underneath each flap is a short written description.

Learn more: Bishop’s Blackboard

5. Ask questions with story sticks

Good readers ask questions before, during, and after they read. These cute story sticks make a game of first grade reading comprehension. Perfect to use with small reading groups or with partners.

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6. Master the five-finger retell

One strategy you can teach students is the five finger retell. Each finger stands for a different part of the story. Assigning a different finger for each part gives students a kinesthetic connection and makes it easier for them to remember.

Learn more: Mrs. Wheeler’s First Grade Tidbits

7. Summarize using simple signal words

Sometimes with early readers, simpler is better. Start with these basic questions—who?, what?, when?, where?, how?, and why?—to help kids go deeper into their understanding.

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There are tons of fun tools to help students build reading comprehension, and story maps are one of them. Here are 15 free downloadable story maps to help your first graders practice going beyond just the words when they read.

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9. Figure out problem and solution with a graphic organizer

Every fiction story has, among other elements, a problem and solution. This lesson helps students understand that a story’s problem and solution fit together like pieces of a puzzle.

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10. Retell the story using LEGO bricks

Put two things that first graders love together: reading and building. Read a story together, then allow students to use blocks to build a scene from the story. As they build, they can describe details from the story.

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11. Retell using story cubes

Retelling is a helpful comprehension skill for readers. These six cubes encourage readers to retell the story in different ways. They are prefect for reading partners and to use with small groups.

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 12. Play the Oh Snap! word game

Sight words (aka high-frequency words) are words readers encounter most frequently in texts. Early readers benefit from knowing a large bank of sight words, which encourages fluent reading. This fun sight word game is a great way to improve reading skills and build reading fluency.

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13. Use scooping phrases

The goal of reading fluency is better comprehension. To read with fluency or expression, readers must comprehend the story events. Teach early readers to use “Scooping Phrases” to scoop up words to form phrases within sentences. This effective strategy also works well with struggling readers.

Learn more: This Reading Mama

14. Introduce wordless picture books

As readers encounter more-difficult texts, character traits become less explicit. To determine what the character is like, the reader has to do more inferential work. Using wordless picture books is a great way to introduce early readers to making inferences.

Learn more: Ashleigh’s Education Journey

15. Inference using thought bubbles

Foundational inference activities give first graders an opportunity to practice their inferring skills. As they move into texts, first graders can infer what a character is thinking in the story and then add a thought bubble to explain it.

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If you like these first grade reading comprehension activities, check out our fun, printable first grade writing prompts.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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

Literary reading lessons. 1 class. A book for a teacher - a book for a teacher - Corporation Russian textbook (Drofa-Ventana publishing house)

authors: Vinogradova Natalya Fedorovna in Education, Khomyakova Irina Semyonovna , Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Senior Researcher at the Center for Primary General Education of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Institute for Education Development Strategy of the Russian Academy of Education", Safonova Irina Vladimirovna , Petrova Vera Ivanovna

Teacher's book

Primary general education

N. F. Vinogradova's line of teaching and learning. Literary reading (1-4)

Literary reading

The book for the teacher is part of the educational and methodological package "Literary Reading in Primary School" for grade 1 and implements the concept of student-centered literary education. The manual reveals the goals, content and methodology of organizing listening lessons during the period of literacy (I-III quarters of the academic year) and literary reading lessons (IV quarter). nine0011

The main goal of the author's course is to develop in first-graders the perception of literary texts of various types and genres, emotional susceptibility to the artistic word, the development of interest in listening and reading works during the period of study when children's independent reading skills are not sufficiently developed.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Topic 1. We love - we are loved
nine0035
• "When We Were Little"
• "We play"
• "Tales without end. .."
3. Theme 2. Sounds and colors of nature. Autumn
• "Leaves are raining down"
• "Mushroom Time"
• “The swans were flying away…”
4. Topic 3. Are there miracles in the world?
• "Confusion"
nine0029 "Jokes are serious business"
• “Together we will sing songs”
5. Topic 4. About funny and serious things
• "What fairy tales teach"
• "Good deeds"
• "So different, different heroes of fairy tales"
6. Topic 5. We love - we are loved
• "Games of our childhood"
• "Games and poems of our childhood"
• "Tales we know and don't know"
7. Topic 6. Sounds and colors of nature. Winter
• "Winter Games"
• "Blizzards flew to us"
8. Topic 7. Are there miracles in the world?
• "How poetry is composed"
• "Are we able to notice miracles?"
• "Wonderful Books"
9. Topic 8. About funny and serious
• "What to do, how to be?"
• "Learning from a fairy tale"
10. Topic 9. Sounds and colors of nature. Spring
• "Snow is melting, streams are running..."
• "Pictures of Spring"
• "Let's repeat the past"
11. Topic 10 (1). We love - we are loved
• "We're Getting Big"
• "Alone"
• "Our animals, our birds..."
• listening lesson
12. Topic 11 (2). Sounds and colors of nature
• "Why is it such fun everywhere? .."
• "Spring Days"
• "Spring has come"
• listening lesson
13. Topic 12 (3). Are there miracles in the world? nine0030
    • Ordinary Miracles
    • "Who knows how to be surprised"
    • "Where does the echo live?"
    • listening lesson
14. Topic 13 (4). About funny and serious
• "Hedgehogs are laughing. .."
• "Unresolved Issue"
• Friendship Lessons
• listening lesson
15. Topic 14 (5). nine0004 Sounds and colors of nature
• "Nature in riddles"
• "The sun whispers a leaf..."
16. Topic 15 (6). We love - we are loved
• “There are mothers of animals…”
• listening lesson
• "If man is a friend of animals..."
17. Topic 16 (7). Are there miracles in the world?
• “Naughty and pranksters live in the world”
• "Miracles around us"

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First reading lesson in 1st grade "You read, I read, my whole family reads"

DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITY OF DONETSK

MUNICIPAL Educational institution

“School No. 94 of the city of Donetsk”

“YOU READ, I READ, MY ALL FAMILY READS”

1-A class
Teacher: Medvedenko L.G.

Donetsk

2016

Purpose: To introduce students to the class, the teacher. form positive attitude towards education and school. Generate interest in learning activities. Cultivate a love for the book.

Equipment: recording, greeting cards of fairy tale characters, alphabet, a selection of children's books, pencils, a poster, paper doves.

Lesson progress

1. Organizing moment

- Hello dear guys! How beautiful, elegant, happy you are today!

1 September is the first day of the calendar,

Because that on this day

All girls and boys

cities and villages

Took bags, took books

And went 1 time in 1 class.

Today real holiday. I congratulate you, dear children, dear adults, on this event. On this solemn day for everyone, I would like to wish the children success in this hard school work, and to you, dear parents, great patience and understanding, and for all of us - love and a benevolent attitude towards each other. to me very nice to see all of you in class. I was looking forward to this one day. You have finally become schoolchildren. And who dreamed of going to school sooner? nine0011

- Who was worried? Why?

(answers children)

- Guys, I was also worried and worried. I kept thinking about what would be me students. Maybe diligent and obedient, or maybe fidgety and rascals. But I know for sure that all our guys will definitely learn quickly. read and write well.

2. Acquaintance

Here and autumn.

Hello, school!

rang cheerful call

I you logged in for the first time

B light and airy classroom.

What needed here?

NOT be lazy and study hard,

So that to know about everything in the world,

To "5" to receive.

- I will study with you. I really want to help you and I want you to be interesting. I am your teacher. My name is Lyudmila Grigorievna.

- And now I'll get to know you. I'll read a poem if you hear your name get up.

3. Say Your Name Game

What you are beautiful,

elegant, ceremonial,

Such darlings

Combed with bows girls sitting

And the boys are looking at us so neatly.

- Clap your hands if you're in a good mood.

(children clap)

- Let me try to guess why you are in such a good mood?

4. Guessing game

you Glad you have a nice bag.

Because that you have new beautiful things in your knapsack.

Because that you are elegant and beautiful today.

Because what you really want to go to school.

Because that you are students.

(answers children)

5. Fabulous congratulations

- Guys, all of you love and know fairy tales. Fairy tale characters sent you their congratulations. Guess Who are they. nine0011

Congratulations all first graders. I want to get smart and learn to read. When Papa Carlo gave me the alphabet, I exchanged it for a ticket to the puppet theater, which is very sorry.

(Pinocchio)

I I also dream of going to school like you. If I had gone to school, I would have known that the wolf is a cunning predator, you can’t talk to him and say where he lives grandmother .

(Little Red Riding Hood)

If If we were in school, we would immediately build a brick house and not be afraid of the wolf.

(Three pig)

- Well done guys. What a pleasure to work with you. You already you know so much. Did your parents go to school too? I'm sure they They loved to read and know a lot of fairy tales. How to Winnie the Pooh's friend's name? nine0003 (Piglet)

Who did you like jam the most? (Carlson)

Who gave the talking log to Papa Carlo? (Giuseppe)

Name the name of the postman from Prostokvashino. (Pechkin)

Like the name of a young crocodile of fifty years? (Gena)

Animal, traveling in a box of oranges and living in a telephone booth . (Cheburashka)

the boy's name was uncle? (Fedor)

Who did not know anything, but became the hero of a famous book? (Dunno)

- Well done, respected parents. You set a good example for your children.

In order to know a lot, you need to read a lot. We will learn to read the ABC.

If want to know a lot,

achieve,

Mandatory must learn to read.

All us - teachers and workers, academicians and poets, artists and scientists, miners and presidents were taught to read the alphabet. You must love and respect this great book.

Books there are many different things in the world

Interesting and funny.

I invite you you guys, read more of them.

Book Fair

(Children get acquainted with children's books)

8. Continue the proverb.

(work with parents)

- Who reads a lot ………. (he knows a lot).

- Read new book……. (met with a friend).

- The book is your friend, without it it's like ... .. (without hands).

- The book will help in work -…… (will help out in trouble).

Book – our friend, big and smart

Not will make you feel bored and discouraged

dispute - cheerful, noisy,

will help new to know.

I let girls and boys,

All naughty kids

today they will say loudly - loudly

“Thank you, book country!

to you, girls, you boys,

C book to get along and make friends.

let love for a good book

C you will live together.

(questions for children )

- Do you have any books?

- Who reads them to you?

- What do you like to hear about books?

- Can you name your favorite?

- Who is its author?

- Our task is to learn to love Her Majesty - the Book.

A I know that some children already know how to read. Let's try to read the words from board .

(children Read words from the board)

Mom School 9000 calls the words - mom, dad, grandmother, grandfather, sister, brother, me.

- Give these words in one word (Family)

- Correctly. Let your family help you learn, support and rejoice every success and victory. nine0011

- Today, you and I, guys, have formed our school family. I am sure that she will be friendly.

10. Practical work (together with parents)

Dove - a symbol of peace. Each of you on a carved dove, together with your mother, will write your own name, and then we will stick them on the poster.

11. Parents' congratulations.

12. Handling to parents.

- I want to contact my parents. nine0011

Difficult raise a child now.

Many you need to know for this,

Love it must be understood,

How to praise him, how to scold,

Seriously Or talk to him with humor.

Children you should always help,

Each pick up for school in the morning.

Parting words good time to give.

Fairy tale read to them at night

And take a walk with the whole family on the weekend,

communicate with your child,

A most importantly, without a doubt,

I wish great patience.

I I appeal to you, comrade children,

books are no thing in the world.

let books by friends come into the house,

Read all your life, get crazy .

****

you are a holiday today,

you now quite big.

Rejoice, you are a first grader,

New open the door to knowledge.

Arrived you are a baby in kindergarten,

Frightened cuddling up to mom.
You looked timidly at the guys,

At educators, for a nanny.

Passed year, you became big

And school opens doors

AND congratulating with all my heart,

Of course, I believe in your success.

You will learn read, write,

You will receive a lot of new knowledge.

Study to be on "5"

Open the world is dear to you. nine0011

here the cheerful bell rings

And school welcomes you.

Waiting lessons, recess

I excellent marks.

Will you you read, write,

Add and subtract.

Whole world and new class

Waiting today is a good time.

you are a holiday today,

My wonderful first grader,

To your path was easy,

These don't forget the lines.

Good luck in all subjects,

questions know the answers.

Be diligent, study

K strive for new knowledge.

***

Rear there was a kindergarten,

Carefree days.

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