Description

Build strong reading comprehension skills for first grade students with close reading, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities that support the rigor of current standards

This comprehensive resource for informational text covers grade 1 content-area topics.

What's Inside:
Each of the 10 units presents a grade-appropriate nonfiction article and supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including:

• Picture dictionary: content vocabulary and Words to Know list
• I Read and Understand: text-dependent questions
• I Read Closely: close reading activity
• Words I Know: vocabulary activity
• I Can Write: text-based, scaffolded writing assignment
• What I Learned: writing assignment to culminate units with two-page selections

Additional teacher support includes:

• Correlations to current standards is provided for every unit for easy reference
• Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects to extend learning at home
• Guided reading level to help identify appropriate texts for students

The nonfiction minibooks cover 1st grade content-area topics:

• Science Articles
  We Need the Sun
  Little Blue Butterfly
  About the Wind
  Water
• Social Studies Articles
  The Statue of Liberty
  Looking at the United States
• Biography Articles
  Winslow Homer, American Artist
  Maria Martinez, Native American Potter
  George Washington Carver
• How-to Article
  How to Make the President's Breakfast

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.

About Evan-Moor
A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.