teaching supplies logo  O'Block Books
  Your one stop shop for early childhood teaching supplies and materials.

™   O'Block Books shipping information Free shipping on orders $39.95 & up!
                      In stock orders ship w/in 24 hours!

Phone: 412-559-3384
Fax: 724-744-1098
information@oblockbooks.com
Better Business Bureau Accredited Business Seal
National School Supply and Equipment Association MembershipVerisign Logo

$pecial$ / Promotions
Home
New Products
Best Sellers
Purchase Orders
View Cart/Checkout
Shop for Teacher Resources & Teaching Materials by Subject Area

 

Ebooks, MP3s, Software


Shop for Teacher Resources & Teaching Materials by Grade Level

 

First Grade Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction and Reading Skills Teacher Resource Books, Learning Games and Educational Materials

See also:
Literacy Skills
Literacy Centers
Books / Student-Made Books
Puppets / Flannelboard Stories
First Grade Home Page

Free Shipping Promotion: All orders $39.95 and over receive free parcel post shipping (within the contiguous United States). In stock orders ship within 24 hours.

In order to view some of the Sample Pages you need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, click the button below:

Adobe Acrobat Reader for first grade sample pages

First Grade Reading Instruction/ Skills (10 products)

reading activities and skillsReading First Activities, Grade 1

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $17.99
Product #: 1003021
Sample Pages

Qty:


Teacher-directed lessons and independent student activities focus on the five key elements of reading as identified by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

This book has been designed to assist the classroom teacher with activities and teaching strategies appropriate for teaching the elements of reading identified by the National Reading Panel. The book is divided into five sections appropriately named after each of the elements of reading instruction.

Within each section, you will find a definition of the element of reading, as well as a variety of ways to implement this key for effective reading instruction in your classroom. Some of the activities are teacher-directed activities, while others are games which students can use for practice, A variety of student activity sheets are provided as well. When appropriate, these activity sheets can be copied and distributed for the student to complete.

The activities included in this book are not meant to be a complete reading program. They are to be used in conjunction with your school's adopted reading program. These activities are meant to provide you with ideas for ways to make teaching the elements of reading more fun.

Pages: 176
Back to the First Grade Reading Instruction index


Reading Instruction Teaching Materials Step Up to Reading: Primary

Grade Level: First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $18.99
Product #: 3104261
Sample Pages

Qty:

 

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 reading 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 word analysis, vocabulary, reference skills, story elements and comprehension.

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
You may also like:
Step Up to Language Arts
Step Up to Math
Back to the First Grade Reading Instruction index


Essential Skills Reading and Writing Teaching Supplies Grade 1 First GradeEssential Skills: Reading & Writing

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $29.99
Product #: 1006221
Sample Pages

Qty:

 

Teachers Choice Award Teacher's Choice Award 2010

  • Develops student mastery of key concepts and skills
  • Includes focused instructional and practice activities
  • Includes standards & benchmarks
  • Features English and Spanish CD-ROMs with parent-support materials
  • Great for pull-out, after-school, special education, and summer-school programs!


Can you imagine how wonderful it would be if the students in your classroom could acquire the skills they need to be ready for on-grade instruction? This series of books is designed to do just that!

Based on standards from all the national organizations and several states, the authors have determined the top prerequisite skills that a student going into a certain grade level should have to be successful in that grade. They have designed lessons based on the findings of leading educational researchers. And they have developed a practical, teacher-tested system for preparing students to master the content that states require them to know.

Each book in the Essential Skills series is full of straightforward lessons and activities to activate students' prior knowledge of a particular skill. Upon successful completion, students will be ready for on-grade instruction that builds upon that skill. You can teach your curriculum, confident that all your students are ready to learn it.

If students lack some skills they need, additional PAL Packets are available on the CDs that come with the books. These Parent-Assisted Learning activities help students catch up with the rest of the class. The PAL activities are provided in both English and Spanish.

Teachers have found this series to be very helpful at various times of the school year.

  • Some teachers use the lessons at the beginning of the year to review important skills.
  • Some teachers use the lessons throughout the year to introduce topics as they come up in their scope and sequence.
  • Some teachers use the Essential Skills books for the next grade level following their state test as a way to prepare their students for the following school year.

In all of these situations, teachers have found the Essential Skills series to be helpful in building students' knowledge and preparing them to master the content that the states require students to know.

176 pages + 2 CDs
You may also like:
Essential Skills Math Gr. 1
Essential Skills Math Gr. 2
Essential Skills Reading & Writing Gr. 2
Our entire collection of First Grade Writing teaching materials

Back to the First Grade Reading Instruction index


How to Teach Reading Teaching MaterialsDr. Fry's How to Teach Reading for Teachers, Parents and Tutors (5th edition)

Grade Level: Preschool - Adult
Price: $16.99
Product #: 1002766
Table of Contents and Sample Pages

Qty:


This easy to use 6 step teaching strategy really works with young children, older children who are remedial, and even illiterate adults. The student can have no reading ability at all or some mix of elementary school abilities.

The book has been used by thousands of parents, adult literacy tutors, volunteers in programs for the disadvantaged, teachers' aides, and even classroom teachers who want a rapid overview of some proven methods of teaching reading. It has also been used by college students in laboratory and clinic-type teacher training courses.

This up-to-date version includes more emphasis on writing, fluency, and phonemic awareness. This new edition also has longer lists of phonic words, high-frequency words, and lists of reading materials. But basically, the 6 steps given in this manual have stood the test of time and have helped many thousands of students read better.

6 steps:

  • Find present reading ability
  • Select the right reading material
  • Stress comprehension and variety
  • Teach vocabulary
  • Teach phonics
  • Develop writing

This books also includes:

  • Sample Lessons
  • Phonics Charts
  • Reading Tests
  • Teaching Games
  • Instant Word Lists
  • Book Section Ideas

Pages: 144
Back to the First Grade Reading Instruction index


Reading Instruction / Sight Words Education MaterialsReading Pals Sight Words

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $7.99
Product #: 4001035
Sample Pages

Qty:

 

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
You may also like:
Sight Words Bingo Game
Full-Color Literacy Activities: Rhyming & Sight Words
Back to the First Grade Reading Instruction index


Graphic Organizers Teacher / Teaching Book and Education MaterialsGraphic Organizers

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $14.95
Product #: 2061124
Sample Pages
Table of Contents

Qty:

 

  • Over 90 easy-to-adapt reproducible organizers
  • Build core skills covered in state standards
  • Help students organize and comprehend information
  • Easily adapt the multiuse organizers to fit your lesson plans

Seeing how ideas in a reading selection are organized is a challenging task for young children. So is organizing their own ideas for a writing assignment. You can help your students build these critical skills and more with the easy-to-use tools in this teaching resource book.

Inside this big collection of reproducible graphic organizers-designed especially for kindergartners and first-grade students-you'll find over 90 fun and engaging organizers.

The book starts with "beginner organizers", a unique grouping of cut-and-paste pages that give beginners practice visually organizing information. This section is followed by other types of organizers including:

  • cause-and-effect charts
  • KWL charts
  • topic webs
  • prediction charts
  • sensory detail webs
  • sequence maps
  • story maps
  • retelling maps
  • T charts
  • Venn diagrams

Each section features easy-to-scan directions and suggestions for use, plus a few holiday and seasonal organizers to tie in to special times of the year. A handy "Time-of-the-Year Table" helps you quickly locate just the organizer you need.

No matter what you're teaching tomorrow, there's a graphic organizer inside that can make your lesson even more effective. So put this teacher resource book to work for you and your students today!

112 pages
You may also like:
Prompt, Plan, Write!: Grade 1
High-Frequency Word Booklets
The Best of The Mailbox Learning Centers
Content Area Lessons Using Graphic Organizers: Grade 1
Our entire collection of First Grade Writing teaching materials
Back to the First Grade Reading Instruction index


Content Area Lessons Using Graphic Organizers Grade 1Content Area Lessons Using Graphic Organizers (with CD): Grade 1

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $15.99
Product #: 1008091
Sample Pages

Qty:

 

  • Includes CD-ROM
  • Teach content and thought process simultaneously
  • Promote inferential and evaluative thinking
  • Improve critical and analytical thinking skills
  • Enhance cross-curricular understandings

Twenty-three standards-based lessons use graphic organizers to help students visualize how concepts relate to one another.

A Mac/Win CD gives teachers the options of printing the 23 different graphic organizers as transparencies or as student worksheets.

The lessons cover a variety of topics across the curriculum:

  • Greater Than and Less Than (math)
  • Earth Science: Weather (science)
  • Middle Eastern Fable (history)
  • Transportation (geography)
  • Visualize from Test (reading)
  • Respond to Poetry (writing)

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

Qty:


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.
You may also like:
Learning to Read! First Words Game
Read and Rhyme: Long Vowels Game
Read and Rhyme: Short Vowels Game
Our complete collection of First Grade Learning Games
Back to the First Grade Reading Instruction index


First Words Beginning Reading Learning Game

Learning to Read! First Words Game (CD3116)

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $9.99
Product #: 3003116

Qty:

Two Games to Play!

Entice beginning readers to make connections between sounds and letters. Challenge growing skills by flipping over the pieces to build the words without pictures. Included are (14) 3-piece puzzles and activity directions.

What fun it is to build words! Join the puzzle pieces together to make the charming pictures. To do this, you must look for clues. The picture starts on the left piece. When you find the middle and right pieces to finish the picture, you are ready to read the word.

For even more fun, flip over the pieces and build the words without pictures! Only the right pieces will fit together to make 14 simple words.

Educational value: Strengthen visual discrimination and word recognition skills.

42 puzzle pieces.
You may also like:
Learning to Read! Words With Blends Game
Read and Rhyme: Short Vowels Game
Read and Rhyme: Long Vowels Game
Our complete collection of First Grade Learning Games
Back to the First Grade Reading Instruction index


sight words bingo game
Sight Words Bingo Game

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

Qty:

Includes 100 popular basic sight words

36 game cards

Bingo chips, calling cards and answer mat included

Comprehensive game guide
You may also like:
Our full line of First Grade Educational Bingo Games
Back to the First Grade Reading Instruction index



Shop for teaching supplies by grade level:


Search our Site:


Search by Price

Search Between:

$ &



Be the first to know about new products and special promotions:

O'Block Books Teaching Supplies Email Notifications Address List Sign-Up

O'Block Books Teaching Supplies Facebook Sign Up Page

O'Block Books Education Materials Twitter Follower Sign Up


secure online shopping of teaching materials100% Secure Shopping

Credit cards accepted by O'Block Books
& School Purchase Orders

Testimonials

I am a stay at home mom who values education very much, and these resources have been able to help me start my child's education early in order to give her a head start before she even enters into school. - Heather L.

The resources I received will help me tremendously with reading skills. I was amazed at how quickly I received my order. - Annette H.

My son needed some additional work with his fine motor skills to prepare him for Kindergarten next year. We work out of the books I ordered. He does his "homework" when my older son is completing his after school. He loves it! It makes him feel like a big boy. I was amazed that my order arrived two days after I placed it, especially because it was the Holiday season. - Dawn M.

I purchased the full color Kindergarten file folder games, and my students love them. We use them daily during our literacy groups. Your service was great! - Cindy M.

They provide a variety of ways to reach different students and allow me to vary my activities year-to-year. - Staci M.

I have used all the materials with my Kdg. class and found them to be so appropriate. The children enjoy them. - Jennifer C.
Read More...

 

 

Shipping Info. | Returns | Privacy Policy | Security Info. | FAQ | Contact Us | About Us | Customer Feedback | Resources | Newsletters | Calendars | Sitemap

Copyright © 2002-2010 O'Block Books, P.O. Box 126, Irwin, PA 15642 All rights reserved.