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First Grade Language Arts: Punctuation & Capitalization, Grammar, Spelling, Main Idea & Details, Fact/Opinion & Cause/Effect, Summary & Inference, Vocabulary Teaching Resources, Learning Centers, File Folder Centers

Language Arts
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First Grade Language Arts Teaching Supplies

first grade, second grade, third grade language arts teaching resourceBest of The Mailbox - Language Arts

Grade Level: First Grade - Third Grade
Price: $17.95
Product #: 2001459
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Make language arts fun with hundreds of creative ideas, now in one extensive volume for grades 1-3. This compilation of teaching units will energize your language arts lessons and strengthen students' skills. From vocabulary enrichment to reading motivation, to letter writing and poetry, and more, these quality and teacher-tested ideas will get results.

Includes the following:

  • Using the Dictionary and the Newspaper
  • Vowels
  • Main Idea
  • Vocabulary Enrichment
  • Antonyms & Synonyms
  • Response to Literature
  • Reading Motivation
  • Parts of Speech
  • Writing Mechanics
  • Journal Ideas
  • Spelling
  • Writing Letters, Poetry, and Reports
  • Handwriting
  • Dictionary Skills

Pages: 160
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Language Arts Instruction Teaching Materials Step Up to Language Arts: Primary

Grade Level: First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $18.99
Product #: 3104257
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3 Levels of Learning!
Supports NCTE Standards

Perfect for:

  • Differentiated Instruction
  • Review & Reinforcement
  • Enrichment
  • Mixed-Ability Classrooms

Reach each student in your classroom with the differentiated instruction offered in this teaching resource. Reproducible activity sheets cover core language arts skills at three ability levels—basic, intermediate, and challenging. They provide the practice and instruction needed for your mixed-ability classroom. Simply choose a level based on the readiness of each student.

Topics include parts of speech, sentences, capitalization, punctuation, and usage.

Motivate students by offering multiple approaches to content, instruction, and assessment. Help each student demonstrate individual strengths and "step up" to the next level of learning with the support, motivation, and challenges available with tiered instruction!

Pages: 160
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Language Arts Practice Pages First Grade Teaching SuppliesLanguage Arts Independent Practice (Super Simple!)

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2061148
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144 Easy-To-Use Ideas for Skill Reinforcement

Enough for 4 Activities for Every Week of the School Year!

Fun, independent practice is hard to find. With this teacher resource book you can stop looking! This valuable resource provides you with 144 activities that are super quick to read, simple to prepare, easy to explain, and fun-perfect for seatwork, centers, or even homework. More than just paper-and-pencil activities, students practice skills in a variety of hands-on ways that make learning fun. The ideas require only a minimal amount of materials and take only minutes to set up.

Topics include:

  • phonics and word skills
  • reading comprehension
  • capitalization and punctuation
  • spelling and vocabulary
  • beginning writing

Use this teaching book in your classroom to:

  • Provide independent practice of core language arts skills
  • Quickly prepare engaging activities in minutes
  • Meet the needs of all learners

Supplement your teaching with engaging, super simple Independent Practice. Students will enjoy the variety of creative ideas and you'll enjoy the no-fuss preparation! You'll have enthusiastic learners all year long!

Pages: 112
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Learning Center Collection: Language Arts
File Folder Centers: Language Arts
Daily Journal Prompts
Prompt, Plan, and Write Gr. 1
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language arts activitiesFull Color Language Arts Literacy Activities

Grade Level: First - Second Grade
Price: $23.99
Product #: 1003173
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A wonderful addition to any first or second grade language arts curriculum. This book was created especially for the busy teachers of young students.

The hands-on, developmentally appropriate activities are sure to provide your students with fun-filled learning experiences. The activities are full color and will add some spice to the regular classroom materials.

The contents in the book provide a variety of ways to reinforce language arts concepts and skills while maintaining student interest. The activities are easy to implement with little or no preparation at all.

The activities are meant to support and be a resource for teachers as they teach these content skills. The activities provide review and practice in the following areas of language arts:

  • beginning, middle, or ending sounds in single-syllable words
  • short and long vowel words
  • rhyming words
  • word families
  • compound words
  • contractions
  • synonyms
  • antonyms
  • parts of speech
  • punctuation
  • capitalization
  • friendly-letter format
  • responding to who, what, when, where and how questions
  • sequencing the events in a story
  • sentence and paragraph order


Each activity is set up with an easy-to-follow lesson. First, each lesson states the objective or learning skill and the materials needed. Most of the materials are provided inside this book. Next, the lesson outlines in what kinds of groupings the activity can be implemented. Most of the activities can be adapted in multiple ways and can be "custom tailored". They can be implemented as a whole class lesson, small group, partners, independently, or in a center. The activities can also be adapted for a variety of student levels.

Suggestions are listed in the actual directions of the activity or they are suggested in the "Ideas" section. The "Ideas" section contains many helpful hints on such things as storage of materials or ideas to either enhance or extend the activity. Overall, the book is an asset to any first or second grade teacher.

Pages: 176
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Full Color Literacy Activities: Math (1-2)
Full Color Literacy Activities: Science (1-2)
Full Color Literacy Activities: Social Studies (1-2)
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Daily Warm-Ups Language Skills Grade 1Daily Warm-Ups: Language Skills

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $17.99
Product #: 1003991
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Includes Standards and Benchmarks
Ideal for Test Preparation!

Quick, easy, effective activities support standards and help students improve skills they need for success in testing. Sound too good to be true? Not at all! That's just what each book in this series offers.

Over 150 warm-ups that cover parts of speech, sentence structure, vocabulary, and mechanics and usage. Each warm-up provides a brief overview of a particular skill, an example of using the skill correctly, an activity for the skill, and a follow-up writing activity for applying the skill.

Pages: 176
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Daily Warm-Ups: Reading
Daily Warm-Ups: Math
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First Grade Language Arts File Folder Centers

File Folder Centers Language Arts Kindergarten - 1st GradeFile Folder Centers: Language Arts

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $19.95
Product #: 2060926
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Durable centers that are ready in minutes!

No coloring or gluing required!

  • Fun practice for a dozen basic skills
  • Ready to cut out and use
  • Self-checking for instant assessment

Grab their attention and focus on essential skills. These durable, easy-to-use file folder centers provide fun, self-checking practice of basic skills for your students. Tear out the ready-to-use center, cut out the cards, and go!

With this teaching resource you'll get 12 complete, self-checking learning centers. No time-consuming preparation or costly materials are needed. Simply tear out each file folder center, cut out the center cards, and use!

Each center provides practice with an important language arts skill for grades kindergarten - first including:

  • initial consonants: n, p, t
  • initial consonants: d, f, h
  • initial consonants: b, l, s
  • initial consonants: c, m, w
  • colors and color words
  • uppercase and lowercase letters
  • short vowels: a, o, u
  • long vowels: a, e, o
  • rhyming
  • ending punctuation
  • word families: -an, -at
  • initial digraphs: ch-, sh-, wh-

These engaging file folder centers are perfect for independent practice or for early finishers. Have a whole new assortment of learning centers ready in just minutes with this teacher resource! They're so easy to prepare, you can try them in your classroom today!

104 pages
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Our complete collection of Language Arts teaching materials for first grade


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