Materials & Resources
- First Readers (your choice from reader vlibrary)
- Primer vlibrary Your choice of primers
- Flashcard Sight-Words and Activities
- Report for processing reading
- McGuffey's New Eclectic Spelling Book 1-31
- Essentials of Spelling Grades 1-4 grade 1
- Sander's Union Speller pages 1-23
- Swinton's Word Primer Although this is a one year course, it is alright to break it up into several years if that is what your student needs
- Spelling Lessons Worksheets
- Student dictionary for new words.
- Manusctipt handwriting Workbook- Maintain skills with More Script practice.
- Three letter Words Flashcards Silent e
- Vowel Teams ar ir er ur Blends More Blends Phonics Charts 1-5
- Set1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Establishing sight vocabulary flashcards for printing out.
- Simple pantomimes and dramatic play
Topics to be covered this year
- "Pupils should be required to keep a list of the words which they misspell, and to rewrite them frequently, in sentences and separately (Reed, Alonzo, 1896)."
- Phonetic analysis Beginning Phonics Long AEIOU
- Reading informally: names, labels, signs
- Creating stories and poems
- Telling favorite stories
- Organizing ideas and impressions
- Book reports and critiques: Child can give more detail in summarizing a story.
- Beginning grammar: nouns, verbs, adjectives
- Introduction to punctuation and capitalization
Additional Topics if Time permits
READINGRead to them, and have child repeat the story back to you.
- Young Canada Reader
- Aesop's Fables
- Alice in Wonderland
- Just So Stories
- Alice Through the Looking-glass
- Mother Goose One Syllable Books
- Sammie and Susie Littletail
- Stories to Tell Children
- Bed Time Stories 1st grade readings
Online Books
Supplemental Reading Children's Bible Stories
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