First Grade ELA
Strand: Reading Literature Domain: Key Ideas and Details
Common Core Standard: RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Essential Vocabulary
Task Analysis Learning Activities/Assessments Resources
Prior
- story - who - what - question - text - where - when - why Explicit - Setting - Problem - Solution Introductor y - Who - What - Where - When - Why - How
Identify characters -Identify setting - Identify problem/solution - List main events - Formulate questions for teacher/peers - Ask and answer questions about key details in text Reading comprehension has both story and questions. 3 are free if your school has a subscription there are a lot available.
Simple organizer for retelling the basic components of a story.
Activity to go along with There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose. Can be used whole class or small group.
This worksheet is back and front and can be used for character retell.
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This web site has a lot of activities and worksheets for
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Reader Response Graphic Organizers for Emergent and Early Readers
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Teaching
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- Graphic Organizer
Story Maps - Basic & Advanced (Free)
Vocabulary Acquisition Strategy Packet
Character Traits Tools- Poster and Graphic Organizer Freebie!
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Cause and Effect Detectives
Fact and Opinion Practice Page
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First Grade ELA
Common Core Standard: RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central
message or lesson.
Essential Vocabulary
Task Analysis Learning Activities/Assessments Resources
Prior -Story - Character - Setting - Main Event - Key Details - Problem - Solution - First - Next - Then - Last - Beginning - Middle - End Explicit - Event - Beginning - Middle - End - Details - Main idea - Author’s purpose Introductory - Plot - Summary - Moral
Retell main events from a story- Recall events in order (B,M,E) - Summarize the key points of the story
- Recognize the main idea of the story
- Identify
author’s purpose - Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Story Retell and Central Message Foldable Graphic Organizer
Sequencing: Cards and Worksheets
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Simple organizer for retelling the basic components of a story.
Activity to go along with There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose. Can be used whole class or small group.
This worksheet is back and front and can be used for character retell.
Christmas themed main idea
Graphic Organizer
Main idea graphic organizer
This web site has a lot of activities and worksheets for beginning, middle, and end as well as sequencing.
Cute beginning, middle, and end activity for any story that you read
Reader Response Graphic Organizers for Emergent and Early Readers
Graphic Organizer: Who, What, When and Where?
Owl Prereading Graphic Organizer Printable
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Story Maps - Basic & Advanced (Free)
Vocabulary Acquisition Strategy Packet
Character Traits Tools- Poster and Graphic Organizer Freebie!
Cooking Up Character Traits!
Cause and Effect Detectives
Fact and Opinion Practice Page
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First Grade ELA
Strand: Reading Literature Domain: Key Ideas and Details
Common Core Standard: RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
Essential Vocabulary
Task Analysis Learning Activities/Assessments Resources
Prior
- Story - First - Next - Then - Last - Beginning - Middle - End - Character - Setting - Main Event - Key Details - Problem - Solution Explicit - Event - Describe - Adjective - Evidence Introductory - Feelings Identify character, setting and events. -Describe characters, setting and events. - Locate evidence from the text that supports your descriptions . - Describe characters, setting, and major Story Retell and Central Message Foldable Graphic Organizer
Sequencing: Cards and Worksheets
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Simple organizer for retelling the basic components of a story.
Activity to go along with There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose. Can be used whole class or small group.
This worksheet is back and front and
- Motivations - Character Traits
events in a story using key details.
can be used for character retell.
Christmas themed main idea
Graphic Organizer
Main idea graphic organizer
This web site has a lot of activities and worksheets for beginning, middle, and end as well as sequencing.
Cute beginning, middle, and end activity for any story that you read
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Printable
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Comic Book Story Map - Graphic Organizer
Story Maps - Basic & Advanced (Free)
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First Grade ELA
Strand: Reading Literature Domain: Craft and Structure
Common Core Standard: RL.1.4 Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Essential Vocabulary Task Analysis Learning Activities/Assessments Resources
Prior
- question - picture - unknown word Explicit - Phrase - Appeal Introductory - Regular beats - Alliteration - Rhyme repeated lines - Rhythm - DictionaryDescribe how certain situations make us feel. - Use words to describe a feeling.
- Explain how certain words can make us feel certain ways.
- Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
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A Little Alliteration
All About Alliteration
Rhyme Time In the Classroom
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First Grade ELA
Strand: Reading Literature Domain: Craft and Structure
Common Core Standard: RL.1.5 Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information,
drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
Essential Vocabulary Task Analysis Learning Activities/Assessments Resources
Prior
- Story - Story book - Text - Poem - Book - Ebook Explicit - Literature - Informational - Compare - Contrast - Captions Introductory - Introduction - Conclusion - Story structure - Plot
- Action
- Problem / Solution
Identify books that tell stories-literary (fairy tales, fables, etc).
- Identify books that provide information. - Name
fiction/literary and non-fiction/ informational books when read aloud in class or reading group.
- Compare the two types of books. Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give
information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
Fiction and Non-fiction powerpoint
Fiction vs. Nonfiction Venn Diagram Worksheet
Fiction or Non-fiction CCSS
Fiction v. Non-Fiction Genre Game
Fiction vs. Nonfiction Visual Aid Sign
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Strand: Reading Literature Domain: Craft and Structure
Common Core Standard: RL.1. 6 Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.
Essential Vocabulary Task Analysis Learning Activities/Assessments Resources
Prior
-Story - Picture - Author - Illustrator - Photographer - Write - Writer - Draw - Illustrate - Illustration - Photo Explicit - Point of View - Identify - Narrator - Compare Introductory - Point of view - Traits - Compare - Contrast Emotion - Dialogue - Voice - Perspective - Acknowledge - Appropriate
Recognize who the story is about (characters).
-Explain how different stories are told from different points of view. - Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.
This website has a lot of tips for reader’s theatre. It also has scripts for the students to do as a class.
This website has tips to help get readers theatre in your room and places that you can go online to find resources.
Teacher resource on Point of View.
Narrator Worksheet
Point of View
Reader's Theater Brown Bear
Readers' Theater: The Very Cranky Bear
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First Grade ELA
Strand: Reading Literature Domain: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Common Core Standard: RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Essential Vocabulary Task Analysis Learning
Activities/Assessments
Resources
Prior
- Story - Picture - Illustrator - Photographer - Draw
- Illustrate - Illustration - Photo - Details
Explicit
- Illustrations - Predictions - Story Details - Character - Setting - Events
Introductory
- Digital
Complete a Picture Walk (preview the story prior to reading).
-Predict what the story will be about using the illustrations.
- Answer questions about characters, setting, and events based on information from illustrations.
- Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Site for creating illustrations and telling stories about the illustrations
Beanie Baby Strategies
Making Predictions in 3 Steps
Prediction organizer
Prediction Comprehension Center. Using
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- Media (sources of text)
- Plot
- Visual clues - Contextual clues
Pictures to Predict.
First Grade ELA
Strand: Reading Literature Domain: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Common Core Standard: RL.1.9 Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
Essential Vocabulary Task Analysis Learning
Activities/Assessments Resources
Prior
-Character -Events - Adventures - Compare - Alike - Different Explicit - Characters - Adventures - Compare - Contrast - Similar - Different - Experiences Introductory - Compare
Identify main characters in stories. -Identify events that are relevant to thecharacter.
- List ways characters between two books are alike.
- List ways characters between two books are different.
- Create a graphic organizer (double bubble, Venn, etc.) to show comparisons between characters in two books.
Graphic Organizers
Comparing and Contrasting Characters
Compare and Contrast Main Characters
Compare and Contrast 1st Grade Unit
- Contrast - Similarities - Differences - Versions - Variety - Venn diagram - Culture
- Role play different characters’ experiences or adventures.
- Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
First Grade ELA
Strand: Reading Literature Domain: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Common Core Standard: RL.1.10 With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade
1.
Essential Vocabulary Task Analysis Learning
Activities/Assessments Resources Prior -Story - Listen - Understanding - Predictions - Events - Text Explicit - Prose - Poetry - Rhythm - Rhyme Introductory - Comprehension
Read a variety of literature text. - Participate in group read alouds of poetry and prose text. - With prompting and support, identify
characteristics of poetry and prose (rhymes, rhythm, layout, etc.) - With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of
appropriate complexity.
Poetry KWL
Poetry Analysis Template
Poetry Posters {FREEBIE}
Poetry Pause Center Activity
- Strategies - Decoding - Fluency
CC aligned
RL.1.10 First Grade Common Core Worksheets, Activity, and Poster
Can Teach
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