1st Grade Reading Curriculum Interactive Read Alouds | Empowering Little Readers

Description

First grade teachers, are you looking for something to make planning for your whole group literacy block or Reader’s Workshop time easy and fun? These 1st grade interactive read aloud units contain everything you need to teach foundational skills, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, story elements, shared reading, and vocabulary.

The Empowering Little Readers First Grade reading curriculum is based on the close read model for interactive read alouds – each week you will focus on one book and going deeper within that text.

 

This is a GROWING BUNDLE! That means that you are getting it at a discount as I am still working on adding the units. As I add new units, the price will go up, but you will be able to download them for FREE! Right now, Aug-Oct are the only months included.

 

Each week contains 5 days worth of lesson plans for you with foundational or phonemic awareness activities, shared reading with weekly poems, whole group reading lessons, independent work, vocabulary, literacy crafts, original nonfiction books, comprehension checks, mentor sentences with grammar mini-lessons, and directed drawings. This curriculum is designed to meet the Common Core State Standards.

 

 

What is included in each unit?

• Literacy Lesson Plans for 4 weeks
• Phonemic Awareness lessons and activities
• Shared Reading Poems
• Poetry Notebook Pages
• Poem Paper Reader
• Posters and Anchor Charts
• Daily Writing Response for Comprehension
• Vocabulary Picture Cards
• Vocabulary Movement Cards
• Vocabulary Interactive Notebook Pieces
• Vocabulary Practice Pages
• Original Nonfiction Book
• Mentor Sentence Study
• Crafts
• Directed Drawings
• Comprehension Quiz

 

What if I don’t teach Aug-May?

These can be taught whenever you are in school! I personally begin teaching in September and we will start with the August unit. You can teach the books out of order, but I suggest not moving the foundational skills/phonemic awareness lessons as they will build on each other. BONUS BOOKS can be swapped in where you want or used to extend the year.

 

What Books Will Be Used Each Month?

*These books are subject to change.

August

• Mae’s First Day of School – Kate Berube
• The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson
• Giraffe Problems – Jory John
• Jabari Tries – Gaia Cornwall

 

September

• A Bad Case of Stripes – David Shannon
• Applesauce Day – Lisa J Amstutz
• The Goose Egg – Liz Wong
• The Little Red Fort – Brenda Maier

 

October

• Bats – Gail Gibbons
• Runaway Pumpkins – Teresa Bateman
• I Need My Monster – Amanda Noll
• The Scarecrow’s Hat – Ken Brown

 

November

• Time for Cranberries – Lisl H Detlefsen
• Llama Destroys the World – Jonathan Stutzman
• The Golden Acorn – Katy Hudson
• A Plump and Perky Turkey – Teresa Bateman

 

December

• Owl Moon – Jane Yolen
• A Sled for Gabo – Emma Otheguy
• A Loud Winter’s Nap – Katy Hudson
• The Lion Inside – Rachel Bright

 

January

• The Koala Who Could – Rachel Bright
• Cinders – Jan Brett
• Flight School – Lita Judge
• Blizzard – John Rocco

 

February

• Each Kindness – Jacqueline Woodson
• Love Is My Favorite Thing – Emma Chichester Clark
• Luka Goes To Bat – Rachel Isadora
• Dr De Soto – William Steig

 

March

• That’s What Leprechauns Do – Eve Bunting
• The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee – Julie Leung
• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs – Jon Scieszka
• Lizard From the Park – Mark Pett

 

April

• Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burgler – Emily MacKenzie
• Cloudette – Tom Lichtenheld
• Coqui In the City – Nomar Perez
• The Honeybee – Kirsten Hall

 

May

• Hattie and Hudson – Chris Van Dusen
• Inky’s Amazing Escape – Sy Montgomery
• Follow the Moon Home – Deborah Hopkinson and Philippe Cousteau Jr
• Fireflies – Julie Brinckloe

 

First Grade Grammar:

August:

• Nouns
• Verbs

 

September:

• Sentences begin with a capital letter
• Sentences end with punctuation – periods
• Review nouns and verbs
• Adjectives

 

October:

• Adjectives
• Nouns and Adjectives
• Questions
• Asking vs Telling Sentences