First Grade Reading Skills
First Grade Reading Skills
Suggested Teaching Strategies for 1st Grade Reading Skills
- Identifies where the reader would begin and end; points to a letter and a word
- Demonstrates knowledge of concept of word boundaries and letters
- Experiences/engages in retelling stories (brings personal experiences to stories)
- Follows oral directions
- Processes language presented orally in stories and discussion
- Expresses self through drawing/writing
- Demonstrates that reading is a process of gaining meaning
- Recognizes many sight words (high frequency, instruction connecting)
- Attempts to use all cues available (e.g., syntax, context, language predictability), when reading
- Pronounces all sounds in words containing two or three phonemes
- Blends sounds in words containing initial and final blends
- Recognizes letter-sound associations
- Recognizes word families and rhyming words
- Identifies new words by picture cues
- Identifies likeness and differences in words and letters
- Knows how to make new words
- Decodes words using phonemes
- Attends to a story read aloud
- Retells a story with elaboration and with meaningful sequence
- Recognizes fact from fantasy
- Makes predictions
- Utilizes picture/context cues
- Follows directions
- Listens attentively with understanding to a story
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