The perfect supplement to your core early reading program!
Everyday Literacy: Listening and Speaking, Grade 1 helps you support reading and oral language development in your early reading program with fun, focused daily lessons.
The 20 weekly units in grade 1 cover Reading First's Five Essential Components, including:
Oral Vocabulary Development:
- Relating new vocabulary to prior knowledge;
- Identifying and sorting common words (colors, shapes foods);
- Describing people, places, things, locations, and actions;
- Determining the purpose for listening (getting information, solving problems, enjoyment);
- Retelling a spoken message by summarizing;
- Listening critically to interpret and evaluate;
- Developing auditory memory;
- Taking turns speaking in a group;
Comprehension:
- Making predictions;
- Responding to open-ended questions;
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions;
- Making connections using illustrations, prior knowledge, and real-life experiences;
- Identifying sequences of events;
- Identifying the beginning, middle, and end of a story;
- Comparing and contrasting;
- Distinguishing between fiction and nonfiction;
- Determining cause and effect;
- Retelling a story;
Phonological Awareness:
- Repeating auditory sequences of letters, words and patterns;
- Identifying digraphs -ch, sh, th, and wh;
- Blending words phoneme by phoneme;
- Manipulating final sounds in a word;
- Deleting initial sounds in a word;
- Identifying medial short and long vowel sounds;