Help your first-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills!
Each of the 8 units provides a literary text in a minibook format, covering a variety of fiction genres such as folk tale, poetry, fable, and realistic fiction, as well as easy-to-scaffold activities.
Activities include:
- Vocabulary activity: Picture dictionary with content words and a “Words to Know” list
- Reading comprehension activities: “I Read Closely,” “I Read and Understand,” and “I Tell the Story”
- Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
- Genre activity: such as “I Read a Fable”
- Writing activity: “I Can Write”
Additional teacher support includes:
- Correlations for every unit for easy reference
- Downloadable home–school connection activities and projects help to increase parental involvement
- Guided reading levels to help identify appropriate texts for students
- A walk-through of each literary text selection and activity pages that support the unit
The 8 units explore these genres and reading selections:
- Realistic fiction: “Caleb’s Year”
- Poetry: “Color” and “Bed in Summer”
- Folk Tale: “The Ant’s Voice”
- Aesop’s Fable: “The Bear and the Bees”
- Nursery Rhyme: “Three Little Kittens”
- Historical Fiction: “Mary’s Fourth of July”
- Navajo Folk Tale: “Spider Woman”
This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.
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