First Grade Reading at a Glance

August/September
Week
8/25

Phonics Comprehension
Mon.
Tues

-review
alphabet
(see
alphabet
pinterest
board)

Writing

Readers
Workshop

Setting up
Readers
Workshop

(word
solving
strategies
posters)

What is an
author? How do
writers use
creative ideas to
make something
brand new?Imagine a Day
How do writers
use creative ideas
to make
something brand
new?- Not a Box
How do writers
use creative ideas
to make
something brand
new?- The
Squiggle or Not a
Stick

Spelling
Words

Assessment

Sight
Words

What is first grade

like?

Wed

Thur

Writers
Workshop

Trait: IDEA
Writing Piece:
Narrative

What do Good
Readers Do?

Our First Grade

Reading Goals

What Readers
Workshop looks
like

sight words
(whole list)

First Grade Reading at a Glance

Week

Phonics Comprehension
Fri.

9/2

Writing

Writers
Workshop

Readers
Workshop

Spelling
Words

Sight
Words

Assessment

Goal: Use fierce

wonderings to
stretch students
imaginations and
create many ideas
for topics to write
and draw about- If
Dogs Were
DInosaurs

Mon.

Ate, came,
did

-Sight words
(whole list)
-Mclass BOY

January
Week
1/5 Mon.

Phonics Comprehension
-Long I
(CVCe)
-contractions

(HM Theme
5, Week 3)

Writers
Workshop

is sentence
Readers -What
fluency?
Retell -Why should writing
have rhythm?
Stories, -Millions of Cats

Writing

Readers
Workshop

Spelling
Words

Sight
Words

Lesson #2:
the LongIdentifying the
His, how,
I sound
beginning, middle,
just
(CVCe)
and end of a story

Assessment

Spelling pretest

First Grade Reading at a Glance

Phonics Comprehension

Week
Tues

Wed
Thur

Details,
and
Main
Ideas
Whole Group
Materials
Read Alouds

Fri.

Writers
Workshop

Writing

Readers
Workshop

Spelling
Words

Sight
Words

Assessment

-What is sentence
fluency?
-Why should writing
have rhythm?
-Dogteam
Trait:
SENTENCE
FLUENCY
Lesson #3:
-What does
Writing Piece:
Identifying the
argumentative writing Argumentative beginning, middle,
sound like?
and end of a story
-What is the
mood/word choices
for argumentative
writing?
-How do choppy
sentences emphasize
Bad Dogs voice?
Bad Dog
What does fluent
writing sound like?

-How can writers start

their sentences
differently to be more
fluent?

Lesson #5:
Identifying the
characters of a
story

-FULL SIGHT
WORD
ASSESSMENT

(DUE- 1/16)
-MOY M-class
-Fluency #2

-Spelling
post test
-sight words

First Grade Reading at a Glance

Phonics Comprehension

Week

1/12 Mon. Long O & U

(CVCe, CV)
-final
blends:
ft, lk, nt
Tues (HM Theme
6, Week 1)

Wed

Writers
Workshop

Writing

Spelling
Words

Readers
Workshop

Sight
Words

Assessment

-How can writers start

their sentences
differently to be more
fluent?

Lesson #7:
Identifying the
setting of a story

Spelling pretest

*Creating sentences
of different lengths
*Beginning sentences
in different ways
Begin writing stories

Lesson #8:
Identifying the
problem of a story

-FULL SIGHT
WORD

*Beginning sentences
in different ways
A Chair for my Mother

words
Know, let,
with Long
live
O

ASSESSMENT

(DUE- 1/16)

-MOY M-class
-Fluency #2
(due by
1/16)
**graded out
of 23**

Lesson #9:
Trait:
Identifying the
SENTENCE
problem of a story
FLUENCY
Writing Piece:
Argumentative

April
Week

Phonics Comprehension

Writers
Workshop

Writing

Readers
Workshop

Spelling
Words

Sight
Words

Assessment

First Grade Reading at a Glance

Phonics Comprehension

Week
4/13 Mon.

-rcontrolled
vowels:
or, ore,
er, ir, ur
Tues
(HM
Theme
Wed
10, Week
1)
Thur

Readers
Use

Writers
Workshop

Writing

Student Treasure
Project: Kid President

Illustrations

and Text
Features
Whole Group
Materials

Trait: ALL
Writing Piece:
Argumentative

Read Alouds

Readers
Workshop

Spelling
Words

Sight
Words

Assessment

Lesson #1:
Illustrations tells
us more about the
story

Spelling pretest

Lesson #2:
Matching Pictures
use
to Words
the vowel
individual
+r sound
sight word
in store
Lesson #3:
lists
Using Color and
lines to show
mood and
movement

-Spelling
post-test
-sight words

Fri.

4/20 Mon.

Tues

-rcontrolled
Wed vowels:
ar
(HM

Lesson #4:
Speech bubbles in
illustrations
-

Lesson #5:
Introduction to
text features
(Nonfiction Text
Scavenger Hunt)

use
the vowel
individual
+r sound
sight word
in car
lists

-Spelling pretest

First Grade Reading at a Glance

Phonics Comprehension

Week
Thur
Fri.

Writers
Workshop

Writing

Readers
Workshop

Spelling
Words

Assessment

Theme
10, Week
2)
Trait: ALL
Writing Piece:
Argumentative

4/27 Mon. -er, -est

(HM
Theme
Tues 10, Week
3)

-Spelling
post-test
-sight words
Lesson #6:
Finding and
naming text
features

-Spelling pretest
Argumentative

use
individual
or est to sight word
words
lists

adding er
Wed
Thur

Sight
Words

Trait: ALL
Writing Piece:
Informational

Lesson #7:
Using text
features in
electronic texts

Writing
Assessment
(due by
4/30)