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Grade: 1

Focus: English/Language Arts

Note: These activities will likely take more than one day to complete and can be repeated over time.

Activity #1:

|Skills |Materials |Activity |

|Identifying details and sequencing |Story Book |After reading a book with your child ask |

|events |Suggested books for this grade level: |your child to describe what happened in |

| |Biscuit by Alyssa Capucilli |the beginning, middle and end. |

| |Judy Moody (No.1) by Megan McDonald |Have your child retell the story using |

| |Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel |words such as first, next, then, after |

| |Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans |that and finally. |

| |Henry and Mudge First Book by Cynthia Rylant |Provide details about the events, |

| | |characters and setting. |

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Activity #2:

|Skill |Materials |Activity |

|Describing characters with details |Story Book |Read a story with your child. |

| |Paper |After reading the story to your child have|

| |Crayons |them draw the characters in the story and |

| |Suggested books for this grade level: |explain each character’s role in the |

| |Biscuit by Alyssa Capucilli |story. |

| |Judy Moody (No.1) by Megan McDonald |Have your child describe the character’s |

| |Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel |actions, personality, appearance, or other|

| |Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans |qualities using details from the story. |

| |Henry and Mudge First Book by Cynthia Rylant | |

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Activity #3:

|Skill |Materials |Activity |

|Predicting and Inferring |Grade level appropriate book |Use a grade level appropriate book from your |

| |Below see a list of books on a first grade reading level: |home or the local library. |

| |Biscuit by Alyssa Capucilli |Before your child begins reading, ask them to |

| |Judy Moody (No.1) by Megan McDonald |predict what the story is going to be about from|

| |Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel |the title and the picture on the front of the |

| |Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans |book. |

| |Henry and Mudge First Book by Cynthia Rylant |During reading, ask your child to predict the |

| | |event that they think will happen on the next |

| |For more grade level appropriate books, visit the below |page or later in the story. Children can also |

| |websites. |use pictures to generate predictions. Ask your |

| | |child to explain what they saw/heard/read that |

| | them to the prediction. |

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Activity # 4:

|Skill |Materials |Activity |

|Identifying a word that has multiple meanings |A set of flash cards with pictures of multiple |Print out the flash cards and ask your child to|

| |meaning words |draw 2 pictures that represent the word. |

| |Examples: bat, fall, pet, dress, bowl, bark |Have your child explain each picture and how he|

| | |or she would determine the meaning of word if |

| | |he or she encountered it during reading. |

Additional first grade skills

|Recognizing high-frequency words |Print high frequency words list from: |Write each word on a post-it and stick the |

| |Dolch sight word list |post-its all over the house (the bathroom |

| |, front door, bedroom wall, etc). Every |

| |de.php |time you enter that room with your child, ask |

| |Pack of post-it notes |him or her to read that word out loud to you. |

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