Our first grade language arts curriculum helps students develop key skills such as decoding words using phonics, reading with fluency and expression, understanding story structure, writing complete sentences, and using capital letters and punctuation correctly.
Implement 1st grade phonics routines in your classroom this year! Whole group SOR lessons, phonics activities, centers, and phonics freebies!
Decodable readers and 1st grade decodable passages are PERFECT for small group reading activities. This bundle of first grade decodables aligns with the science of reading AND includes a 38 printable and DIGITAL phonics booklets, 114 phonics reading passages, 38 wordlists and 38 decoding assessments.
Boost your first grader’s reading skills at home with this collection of 1st grade phonics activities focused on word families, consonant blends, vowels, digraphs, decoding new words, and so much more.
Learn more about first grade phonics skills and goals, as well as find free 1st grade phonics activities to help your child become a better reader.
These phonics printables and teaching slides offer hands-on and interactive practice, reinforcing decoding, letter-sound recognition, and fluency. Whether you are working in small groups, literacy centers, or during whole group instruction, flip up phonics is the engaging practice for first grade readers you need!
Be sure to begin the systematic and explicit phonics instruction early; first grade would be best. Help students understand the purpose of phonics by engaging them in reading and writing activities that requires them to apply the phonics information you’ve taught them. Use manipulatives to help teach letter-sound relationships.
PLD’s Decodable Reading Books are designed for children being taught to read using Structured Synthetic Phonics (SSP). These books present phonics and high-frequency words in a sequential order, enabling early readers to apply the phonics they are learning in the classroom to their reading practise. Authored by speech pathologists, PLD Decodable Reading Books are aligned with the Science of ...
Phonics and Decoding Reading is the act of processing text in order to derive meaning. To learn to read, children must develop both fluent word reading and language comprehension (Gough & Tunmer,1986). Fluent word reading stems from underlying skills: phonological awareness, phonics and decoding, and automatic word recognition. What Are Phonics and Decoding? Phonics is a "way of teaching the ...
I created a simple 1st grade phonics scope and sequence to help guide myself and fellow first grade teachers. This is a great guide for the school year and I hope it helps you in your classroom!
Decoding is one of the key parts of the science of reading. Learn more and get effective decoding strategies to use with emerging readers.
Decodable reading passages are a great way to teach phonics skills to first graders while also increasing reading comprehension and fluency.
The goal of phonics instruction is to help children learn the alphabetic principle — the idea that letters represent the sounds of spoken language — and that there is an organized, logical, and predictable relationship between written letters and spoken sounds. Decoding is when we use letter-sound relationships to translate a printed word into speech. It’s sometimes called “sounding ...
These decoding activities are great for whole group and small group instruction as well as engaging partner practice during centers.
📌 If these sound familiar, it might be time for additional support. Savvy Learning’s online reading tutors use structured, science-based phonics and decoding instruction to help your child become a confident reader. Final Thoughts Decoding skills in reading are essential for helping kids unlock the words on the page.
