1st Grade Reading Instruction Worksheets Resources
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Introducing Character Traits
Introduce the concept of character traits in your reading comprehension instruction with this graphic organizer. This…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReading ComprehensionReading Instruction -
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Draw the Directions
Employ a printable reading activity that helps build skills in following written directions.Subjects:Reading InstructionDrawingListening -
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Reading Comprehension Sequence Chain
This detail-oriented graphic organizer helps students strengthen reading comprehension by identifying important story…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReading ComprehensionReading Instruction -
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Your Character Comes Alive
Students answer questions about a character's implicit and inferred traits.Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReading ComprehensionReading Instruction -
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African Drums Craft & Reading Activity
Connect music and reading with this craft project. Students will build African hand drums, then use sounds and rhythms…Subjects:MusicArt, Music and DramaMusical Instruments -
BOOK GUIDES
Imani's Moon Teacher's Guide
Use the classroom activities in this comprehensive teacher's guide to integrate Imani's Moon into your English language…Subjects:Folk TalesReading InstructionChildren's Book -
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Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass Activity & Discussion Guide
Use the children's book Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass to teach students about…Subjects:Nonfiction LiteratureLiterary BiographiesSuffrage and Women's Rights -
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Act It Out – Vocabulary Building Activity
Aid students' vocabulary development by acting out the meaning of new or difficult words. Associating the word with body…Subjects:VocabularyReading InstructionLanguage Arts and Writing -
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage
Enhance understanding and diversity awareness with a teaching guide that offers reading ideas about Hispanic heritage…Subjects:Social Studies and HistoryCulture and DiversityMulticulturalism -
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It's a Pajama Party!
Enhance understanding with a teaching guide that offers pajama party-themed educational activities.Subjects:LiteratureReading and LiteratureReading Instruction -
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The World of Amelia Bedelia Teaching Guide
Have fun exploring the world of Amelia Bedelia with the resources in this printable teaching guide. In addition to…Subjects:LiteratureReading and LiteratureChildren's Book Characters -
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Our Environment: Sentence Strips
In this language arts activity, students practice recognizing word and story order.Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReading ComprehensionReading Instruction -
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Proving Character Traits
Use this graphic organizer with your students to identify and list character traits in different narrative texts. These…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReading ComprehensionReading Instruction -
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Getting In The Mood
Use this activity to help your students reflect on the mood set in a story. The printable worksheet provides guiding…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReading ComprehensionReading Instruction -
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Educator's Guide to the World of Patricia Polacco
Patricia Polacco is a beloved, highly acclaimed author and illustrator of numerous books for children. Use this guide to…Subjects:LiteratureBullyingReading and Literature -
BOOK GUIDES
If You Take a Mouse to School Teacher's Guide
Easily adapt If You Take a Mouse to School to classroom lesson plans with this teacher's guide to the book by Laura…Subjects:LiteratureReading and LiteratureReading Instruction -
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Sharing the Asian American Heritage Experience
Enhance understanding with a teaching guide that offers reading ideas about Asian-American history for all reading…Subjects:Asian HistoryCulture and DiversityWorld History -
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Cool Math
Enhance understanding with a teaching guide that offers book ideas about math for grades Pre-K through 5.Subjects:MathematicsLiteratureReading Instruction -
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And Tango Makes Three Educator's Guide
Promote discussion about the meaning of family with the resources in this educator's guide for And Tango Makes Three, a…Subjects:LiteratureNonfiction LiteratureBanned Books and Censorship -
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The Bare Bones
Students fill in this dog-themed graphic organizer to explain the problem and solution of the story. This printable is…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReading ComprehensionReading Instruction -
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Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle Activity & Discussion Guide
Introduce students to the three types of dung beetles and their vital role in the environment with a science picture…Subjects:Informational TextsNonfiction LiteratureLiterature -
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Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of the Macy's Day Parade Educator's Guide
Share the story of Tony Sarg, puppeteer extraordinaire, by reading Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the…Subjects:Literary BiographiesNonfiction LiteratureLiterature -
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Teacher's Guide to Books by Jason Chin
Jason Chin's books make complex scientific concepts accessible to young readers. This teacher's guide to Chin's…Subjects:Informational TextsNonfiction LiteratureLiterature -
LESSON PLANS
A Core Curriculum Guide for Penguin Young Readers: A Leveled Reading Program for Beginning Readers
Reach beginning readers with twelve lesson plans to use in conjunction with the Penguin Young Readers program. Written…Subjects:Early ReadingReading InstructionReading
