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 create a word bank of sight words. Each student creates his/her own personal word bank, and creates pictures to illustrate the word.

Young scholars 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 among action verbs with similar meanings by placing them in order on a graphic organizer.

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 action verbs with similar meanings by placing them in order on a graphic organizer from weakest to strongest.

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.

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

[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] In this flipchart, students will apply what they have learned about nouns and adjectives to make complete sentences. This is a cloze activity which scaffolds learning by providing students with context...