Reading Literary Text, Grade 1 Teacher Resource

By Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Help your first-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills

Each of the 8 units provides a literary text in a minibook format, covering a variety of fiction genres such as folk tale, poetry, fable, and realistic fiction, as well as easy-to-scaffold activities.

Activities include:

Vocabulary activity: Picture dictionary with content words and a "Words to Know" list Reading comprehension activities: "I Read Closely," "I Read and Understand," and "I Tell the Story" Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion Genre activity: such as "I Read a Fable" Writing activity: "I Can Write"

Additional teacher support includes:

Correlations for every unit for easy reference Downloadable home - school connection activities and projects help to increase parental involvement Guided reading levels to help identify appropriate texts for students A walk-through of each literary text selection and activity pages that support the unit

The 8 units explore these genres and reading selections:

Realistic fiction: "Caleb's Year" Poetry: "Color" and "Bed in Summer" Folk Tale: "The Ant's Voice" Aesop's Fable: "The Bear and the Bees" Nursery Rhyme: "Three Little Kittens" Historical Fiction: "Mary's Fourth of July" Navajo Folk Tale: "Spider Woman"

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1629381454
• ISBN13: 9781629381459
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 6 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 2