Support first graders with developing their basic language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard rewritten as a positive I can statement, students are encouraged to work hard toward reaching these clear...

Students will be doing their own illustrations of the vocabulary words from "Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!" Students will also practice the skill of sequencing.

Students learn about the differences between words with similar meanings by placing them in the right column of a graphic organizer.

Students learn about the differences among adjectives with similar meanings by placing them in order from least to most on a graphic organizer.

Students learn about the differences among words with similar meanings by cutting them out and pasting them in order from most to least on a graphic organizer.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students sort nouns into categories as well as additional activities that focus on defining nouns.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will recognize the definition of a noun, use the highlighter tool to find nouns in a sentence and recognize common and proper nouns.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces nouns: person, place or thing. There are opportunities provided for students to practice.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers can use this flipchart to help students make connections between pictures of familiar objects and words which represent these objects within a contextual setting.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers can use this flipchart to help students make connections between pictures of familiar objects and words which represent these objects within a different contextual setting.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching nouns to students involves more than a brief explanation! This flipchart applies correct principles of grammar, parts of speech, and usage and mechanics in an entertaining and easy to use fashion.

This Java matching game has students match pairs of words that form correct compound words by clicking on the two words consecutively. Java is required.

This interactive language arts skill-building site provides a fun activity for creating compound words. Challenge student understanding of compound words and engage in the creation of compound words.