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Use these practice activities to help you master some Grade 1 skills.

Grade 1 English/Language Arts Activities
Reading Fluency
including Site Words

Improve reading fluency with scaffolded selections.

Reading
Comprehension

Improve comprehension with scaffolded selections.

Using
"a" or "an"

Correct usage of "a" or "an".


ABC Order
Alphabetizing words by the first letter of a word.


Analogies
Recognize relationships between words.


Synonyms
Find words that have similar meanings.


Antonyms
Find words that have opposite meanings.


Capitalization
Identify correct use of capital letters.



Grade 1 Math Activities
Place Value 1
Numbers under 20


Place Value 2
Numbers under 100


Standard &
Expanded Form

Numbers under 100.

Greater, Less Than
Numbers under 20


Fractions 1
Simple fractions with clear pictures w/o simplification.

Counting Nickels 1
Determine money amounts with nickels only.

Counting Nickels 2
Determine money amounts with nickels and pennies only.

ClockWork 1
Tell time to the hour.


Input-Output 1
Add & subtract whole numbers.


Measurement 1
Measure to the nearest inch,
half inch, and quarter inch.


Addition
Add sums up to 10, and in other sets, higher numbers.


Subtraction
Subtract from numbers less than 10, and in other sets, higher numbers.


Some First Grade (and Kindergarten) Reading Suggestions
These books should be available in your school or local public library.

The Little Red Hen

Are You My Mother?

There's a Nightmare
in My Closet
Ira Sleeps Over


Go, Dog, Go!

George & Martha

Frog & Toad
are Friends
I Am Enough


Big Blue Book
Brown Bear
The Snowy Day
Corduroy

Just Grandma & Me

Green Eggs and Ham

The Cat in the Hat

If You Give
a Mouse a Cookie

Where the Wild Things Are
Alexander and the Terrible...
The Berenstain Bears Beginner Books
Goodnight Moon


It Could Always be Worse

Stone Soup


Harold and the Purple Crayon

Sheila Rae,
the Brave


Great Web Sites for Grade 1 Students
(These are actual links. Students will navigate to these sites with a click.)


StarFall

Read Theory

StoryLine Online

Between the Lions


Between the Lions

Highlights Kids

PBS Kids

Nat Geo Kids


Dance Mat Typing

Wild Kratts

Fact Monster

Hour of Code


Other Great Sites