First Grade Resources

Harcourt Trophies
This preview site contains examples of electronic resources available for our new basal reading series.

Words and Pictures
Words and Pictures supports the Literacy Hour and is aligned to the BBC Schools TV series. These are Shockwave games that are excellent to use, although the speakers have British accents. (Grades 1-2)

Sight Words
This teacher has created word lists, PowerPoint flashcards, and other resources that can be used to teach words from the basal reading series, Harcourt Trophies.

ABC Activities
From abcteach

Animals in Winter Webquest
On this site are computer activities to be completed with a partner or small group. Many subjects are available on this page that should relate to theme work as well as the reading stories subject matter.

BBC-Schools
This site features learning resources for all subjects for ages 4-16+.

Goals/Evaluations/, Portfolio Covers
From abcteach

Harcourt Brace Spelling Exercises
Excellent Interactive Exercises--Grade 1

Lesson Plan: Brothers Grimm
A lesson planned based on "The Fisherman and His Wife" (Suggested Grade Level K-2)

Class Big Book Ideas
Students will practice their printing and sentence writing skills through writing pages for class big books. Class big books also are a good way to promote cooperation and reading in your classroom. (Suggested Grade Level K-2)

CyberGuides: Grades K-3
Extensive, high-quality lessons and units for popular Children's Books. Use the links on the left to choose the grade level you need.

Dr. Seuss Activities
From abcteach

Go for the Grammar Gold
Harcourt School Interactive Grammar games for grades 1-5

Jan Brett's Home Page
This author's page includes information about her books as well as many activity pages.

Language Worksheets (Grades 1-5)
From edhelper.com

Lesson Plans for Grade 1
From A to Z Teacher Stuff

Lists of Dolch Sight Words
This section will have various free materials for Dolch sight words. All the Dolch materials will have a key made of dots to distinguish between each group of words. The key is as follows and will remain consistent throughout all the materials for Dolch words. The dots for the levels are in the lower right hand corner. Preprimer words will have one dot. Primer words will have two dots. 1st grade words will have three dots. 2nd grade words will have four dots. 3rd grade words will have five dots.

Multimedia Grammar Glossary
Students and parents will be able to review grammar usage, and mechanics at school and at home through animated graphics that make concepts come alive from Harcourt School Publishers for grades 1-5.

Phonics Skill Sheets
From abcteach

Play on Paper Booklet
Play on Paper is a short booklet that introduces children to a number of reading readiness concepts.

Primary Games.com
Click on Language Arts to find wonderful classroom activities for primary students.

Reading Comprehension Worksheets (Grades 1-5)
From edhelper.com

ReadWriteThink
ReadWriteThink, established in April of 2002, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.

Rhyming Worksheets
Click to download and print.

Seussville
The Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am, Horton and the Whos, and the rest of the Seuss characters welcome you to Seussville, Dr. Seuss's playground in cyberspace. You can play games, chat with the Cat in the Hat, win prizes, find out about new Dr. Seuss books and CD-ROMs, and much, much more!

Seussville University
Beginning reading games and activities using Shockwave.

Sight Words
Lists of Words with online matching games (Grades 1-4)

Simon
Memory Game with flashing lights--This game is good for memory as well as practicing the mouse for students who are having difficulty with hand-eye coordination. (Grades K-3)

Spelling Worksheets for Grade 1
From edhelper.com

Surfing for ABC's
This is the finished product that a group of kindergartners and first graders discovered as they surfed the Internet using Yahooligans for things beginning with every letter of the alphabet. This is educational and fun. You may even want to try this project, too. Lesson plan is included. (Loogootee Community Schools)

Teaching with the Web
A list of activities for grades K-2 from Jerrie S. Cheek Educational Technology Center - KSU Kennesaw, GA

These are the Letters of the Alphabet
This is an online storybook with an animated picture for each letter of the alphabet.

Vocabulary Worksheets for Grade 1
From edhelper.com

What's the Word?
A Reading and Vocabulary Game: "FUNBRAIN will show you a picture. Click on the word that best describes the picture." (Grade 1)