Description: 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

Publisher: Evan-moor

Format: SOFTCOVER