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First Grade Basic Skills Teacher Resources, Teaching and Classroom Supplies, Books and Educational Materials

Tracing and Cutting
Opposites and Visual Skills
Classifying
Readiness Skills
Summer Bridge Activities Series (activities for the summer months)

See also:
Numbers, Shapes, and Colors
Patterning and Sequencing
Listening Skills / Following Directions
Writing Skills
Journal Prompts
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First Grade Tracing & Cutting Teaching Supplies (2 products)

teacher resource - tracing, cuttingTracing & Cutting

Grade Level: Preschool - Grade 1
Price: $7.99
Product #: 1003228
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This workbook focuses specifically on those important fine motor skills that many children struggle with and that all children need in order to be successful as they enter school. Skills that seem natural to adults need to be learned. These foundational skills are sometimes difficult and frustrating for children at first.

In this book, we will teach the skills, learn fine motor coordination activities that will enhance the skills, have practice activities for the skills, and provide worksheets to perfect the skills. You will see a definite progression in the child's skill development as he or she progresses through the activities in the book.

These easy-to-use workbooks are great for enrichment, classroom practice, tutoring, home schooling, or just for fun!

Pages: 48


scissors skills workbookScissors Skills Workbook

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade
Price: $3.49
Product #: 3004511
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Enjoy building basic skills with this workbook! Filled with age-appropriate activities, puzzles, and games, this teacher-approved book is perfect for extra practice at home or school and during travel or school breaks.

Children will love the 140 full-color stickers included in each book! An incentive chart is also provided to help parents or teachers track the progress of young learners. You can also place a sticker on each completed page or place a sticker on each page when your child meets a time-based or other predetermined goal.

Skills include:

  • Hand-eye coordination
  • Fine motor skills (cutting)
  • Following directions
  • Pasting inside lines

Pages: 63


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First Grade Opposites & Visual Skills Teaching Materials (2 products)

teaching materials - oppositesOpposites & Visual Skills

Grade Level: Preschool - Grade 1
Price: $7.99
Product #: 1003229
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This book teaches students opposites, classifying, understanding the similarities and differences in objects, positional words, and right and left. These are skills children need to enhance language development and to help begin the emergent stages of reading.

You will be delighted as you watch your students discover how interesting and fun learning can be all year long with the gradual sequence of one-page, easy-to-follow, enjoyable practice activities. The pages are great for enrichment, classroom practice, tutoring, home schooling, or just for fun!

Within this activity book, students will be exposed to four main tasks that will have lasting benefits needed for beginning formal reading.

Visual Discrimination: These pages increase critical thinking skills through classification. Recognizing and comparing likenesses and differences in objects and pictures will help later in the discrimination of numbers and letters.

Positional Words: These pages build and extend knowledge and vocabulary through language concepts and comparison in a concrete, meaningful way.

Opposites: The study of opposites helps stimulate basic thinking skills, use descriptive words, and enhances recall through language development, association, and generalization.

Left and Right: Learning left and right is more than learning an opposite concept. Understanding the concept of left to right will aid children beginning to read. Knowledge of left and right encourages a natural flow of the proper reading direction and helps develop skills in abstract thinking.


Pages: 48


Leveled Reader, Leveled Reading Book Opposites, Beginning ReadingAnimal Opposites Leveled Reader

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade
Price: $4.95
Product #: WR88270
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In this beautifully illustrated leveled reader animals introduce early curriculum concepts to young learners. The animal world, with its amazing variety of shapes, sizes, and colors has a unique appeal for children. Minimal text and bold, eye-catching graphics present opposites in a simple, captivating style that bolster skills.

Children will discover a world of opposites through the animals that inhabit this delightful book, such as big and small, fast and slow, morning and night, and more. Vibrant illustrations of familiar creatures delight young readers, and strong illustration-text match promotes sight recognition of words.

24 pages, full-color illustrations, paperback, 7" x 7".


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First Grade Classifying Teacher Resources (2 products)

teaching book - classifyingClassifying

Grade Level: Preschool - Grade 1
Price: $7.99
Product #: 1003387
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In this book students will focus on the following concepts:

Matching: Children practice finding things that are the same.

Sorting: Children categorize things into groups, based on the differences among the objects.

Classifying: Children look at a group of objects and identify which object doesn't belong to the group.

Interpreting: After studying a scene, children decide what doesn't belong in the picture.

These easy-to-use workbooks are great for enrichment, classroom practice, tutoring, home schooling, or just for fun!

Pages: 48


classifying game
Things That Go Together: Classifying Game

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $9.99
Product #: 3003124

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Assembling these puzzles gives kids lots of hands-on practice in sorting and classifying! Only the right pieces fit together, making a total of 14 groups.

Objects to classify:

  • aircraft
  • baby items
  • farm animals
  • foods
  • land vehicles
  • objects in the sky
  • ocean animals
  • playground equipment
  • rain gear
  • tools
  • toys
  • utensils for eating
  • watercraft
  • writing tools

Game contains 14 puzzles, 42 durable pieces and directions in English and Spanish.

Educational value: Strengthen critical thinking, classification, and vocabulary skills.


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First Grade Readiness Skills (4 products)

first grade readiness teaching materialPractice and Learn: First Grade

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $18.99
Product #: 1002711
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What every first grader needs to know to ensure success in school.

This book has over 200 grade specific activities that reinforce skills appropriate for a first grade student.

Both teachers and parents benefit from the variety of pages provided in this book.

A parent can use the book to work with his or her child to provide an introduction to new material or practice and reinforce material already familiar. As your children master these skills, they become better prepared for homework, class assignments, and tests.

Similarly, a teacher can select pages from this book to provide additional practice for concepts taught in the classroom. When tied to what is being covered in class, pages from the book make great homework reinforcement. Practice sheets help build the confidence necessary for success.

The activities are written, tested, and approved by teachers.

The book is divided into sections by curriculum area including:

  • Language Arts - This section provides pages covering phonics, spelling, grammar, usage, and reading and writing skills.
  • Math - Focuses on increasing students' number sense. In addition to practicing counting, one-to-one correspondence, and number names, students are introduced to addition and subtraction, as well as a variety of other mathematical areas such as measurement, geometry, patterns and fractions.
  • Social Studies and Science- These sections are designed to provide students with specific practice identifying concepts related to these areas of the curriculum.
  • Art - A small arts section is included to provide students with an introduction to color theory and experience in drawing by breaking things down into shapes.
  • Critical Thinking - Provides students with the opportunity to practice comparing and contrasting, categorizing, and deduction at a level appropriate to first grade.

Pages: 304

first grade activitiesFirst Grade Activities Workbook

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $3.49
Product #: 3004531
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Enjoy building basic skills with this workbook! Filled with age-appropriate activities, puzzles, and games, this teacher-approved book is perfect for extra practice at home or school and during travel or school breaks.

Children will love the 140 full-color stickers included in each book! An incentive chart is also provided to help parents or teachers track the progress of young learners. You can also place a sticker on each completed page or place a sticker on each page when your child meets a time-based or other predetermined goal.

Skills include:

  • Phonics
  • Beginning reading and writing
  • One and two digit addition and subtraction
  • Graphing and measurement
  • Rhymes
  • Language arts
  • Opposites
  • Alphabetical order
  • Sequencing
  • Reading comprehension
  • Cause and effect
  • Following directions
  • Patterns
  • Ordinal numbers
  • Greater than, less than
  • Time
  • Fractions

Pages: 60


first grade readiness skills educational materialsMastering Skills for First Grade

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $9.95
Product #: 3904051
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Helping Children Succeed!

Reinforce basic skills with educationally sound and developmentally appropriate activities! This educational resource features 160 full-color pages of skills, games, and activities. Specifically you will find: language arts and math activities, activities for year-round learning, a recommended reading list, a list of fun and safe Web sites, skills checklists, awards, mini-books, and a list of contents according to skill area.

Skills covered:

  • Reading Comprehension
  • Language Arts
  • Writing
  • Math
  • Phonics
  • Grammar
  • Time & Money

160 pages


First Grade Skill and Readiness ActivitiesBig Book of Skill Builders

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $29.95
Product #: 2060795
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  • Skills matched to your curriculum
  • Helps prepare students for testing
  • Ready to use

Help your students be more successful and build a solid foundation in basic skills with this teaching resource! With over 150 engaging, grade-appropriate reproducible activities, this invaluable resource gives you a wealth of innovative ways to build skills in all of the major curriculum areas.

Organized for convenience and ease of use, this comprehensive resource offers fresh, fun ways to build skills in literacy, math, science, and social studies. The eye-catching and educationally sound activities are delivered in formats that engage students and make learning fun!

Units are organized by curriculum areas, and skills progress sequentially throughout the year. Each student page is clearly labeled with a skill and subject area icon so you can quickly see how the activity fits with your curriculum.

In addition, a detailed table of contents makes it easy for you to locate the specific pages you want to use in your lessons. Organized for the way you teach and ready for you to use, this teacher resource is a tool that you can use to build skills all year long!

320 pages


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