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First Grade Literacy Skills (10 products)

beginning reading skills activities and worksheetsSkill Builders for Young Learners: Beginning Reading

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade
Price: $12.99
Product #: 1003688
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This teaching resource is designed to facilitate the teaching of basic pre-reading skills through the use of activity-based worksheets. The pre-reading skills addressed include fine motor skill development, matching, patterning, left-to-right directionality, sequencing, letter recognition and formation, consonant and vowel sound usage, visual discrimination, and phonemic awareness.

Activity pages can be completed easily using crayons, pencils, scissors, and glue. Each activity is designed to give students practice with a specific reading-readiness skill while simultaneously enhancing fine motor skill development through coloring, tracing, cutting, and pasting.

Award certificates are included to recognize achievement. Praise and recognition of skill mastery encourage students to be self-motivated and gain confidence necessary to attempt new skills.

Activities in this book have been placed in a sequence that scaffolds the learning process but may be used in whatever manner best matches your curricular scope and sequence.

Pages: 96
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Skill Builders For Young Learners: Math
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Reading Instruction / Sight Words Education MaterialsReading Pals Sight Words

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $7.99 $7.20
Product #: 4001035
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A Hands-on Approach to Sight Words Practice

Students will enjoy practicing phonics skills with the whimsical Reading Pals characters included in this book. This teaching resource provides opportunities for repeated reading practice that leads to fluent and confident readers. Each book includes:

  • 12 full-color Reading Pals with punch-out text frames designed to isolate letters, sounds, and words
  • Multilevel activity pages
  • Reproducibles of Reading Pals and suggested activities


This book targets recognition of basic high frequency words that children need to recognize "on sight" at automatic levels. The multilevel text pages support phonics knowledge, sight word practice and reading fluency at the K and 1st grade levels.

The text moves gradually from single word phrases to phrases and sentences to increase children's ability to phrase or "chunk" text into meaningful units.

This book includes both one-window and two-window text frames in the shape of delightful animal characters, which are used to reinforce concepts about print and to stress left-to-right and top-to-bottom reading practice.

Each Reading Pal contains pop-out features, which form windows that allow children to confine their text view to one or two words or sentence chunks at a time. This Reading Pal approach is supported by research indicating that the human brain embraces knowledge presented in novel ways. The 12 clever Reading Pals included in this book will stimulate young readers' desire to practice their newly learned skills in a fun way!

Pages: 47
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Sight Words Bingo Game
Full-Color Literacy Activities: Rhyming & Sight Words
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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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Practice Galore Language Arts
Language Arts Independent Practice Gr. 1
Daily Journal Prompts
Prompt, Plan, and Write Gr. 1
Our complete collection of First Grade Language Arts teacher resource books
Our complete collection of The Best of The Mailbox series of books
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reading and writing skills activitiesFull-Color Literacy Activities: Reading and Writing

Grade Level: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Grade
Price: $21.99
Product #: 1003237
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This book has ready-to-use pieces needed to implement great reading and writing activities! From story starters to reading a menu, students are sure to learn while having a lot of fun. Includes easy, step-by-step directions.

This resource includes many quick, easy, colorful, and fun literacy activities and games for you to use with your students. Whether you are a first-year teacher or a seasoned veteran, you will be overjoyed at the wealth of materials included in this book to supplement your literacy program.

This book provides a variety of unique hands-on activities and games that encourage language exploration. Students will participate in activities that focus on reading and writing. As a result, students develop literacy skills in ways that meet individual learning needs.

Each lesson defines the literacy skill and the different ways of student grouping. The lesson states clear and simple directions to allow you to quickly assemble the learning activities for your students, substitute teachers, and/or take-home activities. Most of the materials needed for the activities are included in the book. Since many of the activities are generic, they can be adapted to meet a variety of individual needs.

This book offers new and creative ideas and a fresh twist on commonly-used activities to help teachers save time and assist children in being successful literacy students.

Pages: 176
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Full Color Language Arts Literacy Activities
Full Color Literacy Activities: Rhyming and Sight Words
Full Color Literacy Activities: Sounds and Letters
Full Color Literacy Activities: Math
Full Color Literacy Activities: Science
Full Color Literacy Activities: Social Studies
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Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $21.99
Product #: 1003236
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Wow! Full-color, ready-to-use art PLUS activities that are based on the latest research on literacy. Just cut out the pieces needed to create great-looking learning centers or fun-filled games. Follow the step-by-step directions, and watch the learning take place!

This resource includes many quick, easy, colorful and fun literacy activities and games for you to use with your students. Whether you are a first-year teacher or a seasoned veteran, you will be overjoyed at the wealth of materials included in this book to supplement your literacy program.

This book provides a variety of unique hands-on activities and games that encourage language exploration. Students will participate in activities that focus on rhyming and sight words. As a result, students develop literacy skills in ways that meet individual learning needs.

Each lesson defines the literacy skill and the different ways of student grouping. The lesson states clear and simple directions to allow you to quickly assemble the learning activities for your students, and/or take-home activities. Most of the materials needed for the activities are included in the book.

This book offers new and creative ideas and a fresh twist on commonly-used activities to help teachers save time and assist children in being successful literacy students.

176 full-color pages
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Full Color Language Arts Literacy Activities
Full Color Literacy Activities: Reading and Writing
Full Color Literacy Activities: Sounds and Letters
Full Color Literacy Activities: Math
Full Color Literacy Activities: Science
Full Color Literacy Activities: Social Studies
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teaching supplies - reading, artBuilding Literacy Skills Through Art

Grade Level: Preschool - First Grade
Price: $15.99
Product #: 1003377
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An exciting approach for developing literacy skills in young learners! Develop letter recognition, vocabulary, rhyming skills, story event recollection, math skills, and fine and gross motor coordination creating and using easy art projects.

The use of arts and crafts helps children build literacy skills in a fun, hands-on, relaxed environment.

Each activity includes:

  • An objective - Each project addresses a specific literacy objective.
  • Links to literacy - This section gives suggestions on how to achieve the objective stated and how to build literacy skills through the art project.
  • Materials - This section clearly outlines what is needed to complete each art activity.
  • Art project instructions - This section offers you step-by-step directions to easily complete the craft to be used in the Links to Literacy section. These steps are illustrated, when necessary, to clarify what needs to be done.
You may also like:
Literacy Through Dramatic Play Centers
Our complete line of First Grade Arts and Crafts teacher resource books
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learning to read! words with blends game
Learning to Read! Words with Blends Game

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $9.99
Product #: 3003117

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Two games to play!

Encourage beginning readers to make the connection between sounds and letter combinations by assembling colorful puzzles. Only the right pieces will fit together as players build 14 words by matching the pictures and word sounds.

For word recognition practice, flip over the pieces, assemble the words, and then match them with pictures.

The set includes 14 puzzles, 42 durable puzzle pieces and an activity guide.

Beginning blends: bl, cl, cr, dr, fr, gl,sc, sk, sl, sn, sp,st, sw,tr.

Educational value: Strengthen visual discrimination and word recognition skills.
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Learning to Read! First Words Game
Read and Rhyme: Long Vowels Game
Read and Rhyme: Short Vowels Game
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short vowels and rhyme game
Read and Rhyme: Short Vowels Game

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $9.99
Product #: 3003118

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Two games to play!

Only the right pieces fit together as young learners match pictures and fun rhymes for 12 different word families. Children play with pieces two ways to build beginning reading skills. Players connect the pictures that rhyme. Then, they find those animals or objects in a two-piece scene and read the sentence to show what they have learned.

For even more fun, players can flip over the pieces to practice reading the words and matching them with pictures.

The set includes 12 word families, 48 durable pieces, and an activity guide.

Word families: -ab, -at, -ed, -et, -ick, -ig, -ish, -og, -op, -ox, -ub, -ug.

Educational value: Strengthen visual discrimination, phonemic awareness, and word recognition skills.
You may also like:
Read and Rhyme: Long Vowels Game
Learning to Read! First Words Game
Learning to Read! Words With Blends Game
Our entire collection of First Grade Phonics teaching materials
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sight words bingo game
Sight Words Bingo Game

Grade Level: First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $9.99
Product #: 3008923

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Includes 100 popular basic sight words

36 game cards

Bingo chips, calling cards and answer mat included

Comprehensive game guide
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Our entire collection of First Grade Bingo Games
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Literacy Centers
Student-Made Books
Reading Instruction / Skills
Puppets / Flannelboard Stories
First Grade Home Page


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