First Grade Reading

We will do a lot of reading this year! We will be working on foundational skills, reading and comprehending literature and informational texts, and building our vocabularies.

Starfall

Starfall is a great website to practice reading skills. From English and phonics games to listening to reading, this is a great site for students to use at home!

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ABC Ya

ABC Ya can be used for both math and reading. The reading games have a variety of options to help practice skills that your child needs some extra practice with.

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Turtle Diary

Turtle Diary offers spelling games, word games, parts of speech games, sentence games, and many more games that will build skills we teach and practice in first grade.

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Word Wall words

To the left is a picture of the high-frequency words that students will be expected to know by the end of first grade. Learning these words will help your child become a better reader! Here are some games to play and practice these words at home:

Word Hunt! Write some words on index cards and hide them around a room. Tell your child which word they need to hunt for!
Sight Word Bingo! Make a grid of some sight words for the list. Call out words have your child cover the words as they are called.
Sight Word Toss! Write words on index cards and scatter the words on the floor. Have your child throw a bean bag or stuffed animal onto the words and read the word it lands on.
Word Swat! Write sight words on a large piece of paper. and use a fly swatter or ruler to have your child swat different words on the paper. Race your child to read the word correctly first!

Free Reading apps to try

Booksy

Different leveled books to meet every student need! A library on your own device.

Aesop's Quest

To develop reading comprehension, read through stories with Aesop to help in on his quest!

Vocabulary SpellingCity

An app featuring many different games to engage children and improve spelling and reading comprehension.