A. Use new words from reading when writing and speaking (AL COS)
 

Text Talk:  Julius, the Baby of the World
Through the use of the text talk strategy, students explain, develop, and expand upon story ideas.

Word Wizards:  Students Making Words
This lesson uses an active, hands-on activity in which students make words using vocabulary from various children's books.

Click, Clack, Moo: Reading Word Family Words
This lesson uses the book, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin to teach students word identification strategies.

Amelia Bedelia
This lesson uses Amelia Bedelia to learn and interpret idioms. Students will discuss the directions given to Amelia Bedelia by Mrs. Rogers then rewrite the directions in a way that Amelia Bedelia would understand.

Family Message Journals Teach Many Purposes for Writing
This lesson can be used to have students write their families about what they learned during the day. The teacher could require that students include any new vocabulary words learned in their writings.

Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading and Writing
This lesson uses poetry to teach vocabulary, sight words, and writing.

Word Identification and Recognizing Word Patterns Using Goodnight Moon
In this lesson students will be able to identify word patterns and words from a selected list of content words in the text of Goodnight Moon.
 

I SPY Activities:  Use I Spy to help teach new vocabulary.

Weather Words:  Activities to develop vocabulary using weather words.

Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun:  This site has four games that are pretty neat.  Make sure you go through and find topics suitable for first grade.

Reading Rockets:  Multisensory Vocabulary - Guidelines and Activities

Label Tables:  This activity uses common objects to teach vocabulary and spelling.

Reading: Vocabulary:  This site offers links for teaching vocabulary.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

E/B: Identify symbols and signs within classroom; D: Identify and speak about symbols and signs within classroom and community environment; E: Describe symbols and signs within classroom and community environment.
E/B: Listen selectively for sight words and main ideas; D: Listen for specific purposes to identify sight words and main ideas; E: Listen for specific purposes to identify sight words, main ideas, and supporting details.
E/B: Identify and express beginning and ending sounds in one-syllable words.
E/B: Distinguish between capital and lowercase letters; D: Recognize and identify capital and lowercase letters; E: Recognize, identify, and produce capital and lowercase letters.
E/B: Follow sequence of words from left to right.
E/B: Identify first sound within a spoken word; D: Identify first and last sounds within a word when spoken; E: Identify first and last sounds within a word when spoken.
E/B: Read some high-frequency words, including own name; D: Sort some high-frequency words by category; E: Sort and classify most high-frequency words by category.
E/B: Relate individual letters or groups of letters to a coordinating sound; D: Blend two to four phonemes into recognizable words.
E/B: Recognize punctuation at the conclusion of statements.
E/B: Use appropriate capitalization with proper names and places.
D: Listen and produce some rhyming patterns in language; E: Listen and produce rhyming patterns in language with little error.
E: Use more complex words and sentences to communicate needs and express ideas in a wider variety of social and academic settings.
E: Blend vowel-consonant sounds orally to make words or syllables.
E: Distinguish between individual sounds and syllables.
E: Count the number of syllables within a word or group of words.

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