Everyday Literacy: Listening and Speaking, Grade 1

The perfect supplement to your core early reading program! Everyday Literacy: Listening and Speaking, Grade 1 helps you support reading and oral language development in your early reading program with fun, focused daily lessons. The 20 weekly units in grade 1 cover Reading First's Five Essential Components, including: Oral Vocabulary Development: — Relating new vocabulary to prior knowledge; — Identifying and sorting common words (colors, shapes foods); — Describing people, places, things, locations, and actions; — Determining the purpose for listening (getting information, solving problems, enjoyment); — Retelling a spoken message by summarizing; — Listening critically to interpret and evaluate; — Developing auditory memory; — Taking turns speaking in a group; Comprehension: — Making predictions; — Responding to open-ended questions; — Making inferences and drawing conclusions; — Making connections using illustrations, prior knowledge, and real-life experiences; — Identifying sequences of events; — Identifying the beginning, middle, and end of a story; — Comparing and contrasting; — Distinguishing between fiction and nonfiction; — Determining cause and effect; — Retelling a story; Phonological Awareness: — Repeating auditory sequences of letters, words and patterns; — Identifying digraphs -ch, sh, th, and wh; — Blending words phoneme by phoneme; — Manipulating final sounds in a word; — Deleting initial sounds in a word; — Identifying medial short and long vowel sounds;