Read Works
Read Works: Learning About Your World
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how the five senses help people learn about their world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Light
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about natural and man-made things that give off light. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: How to See Sound
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text showing how to see sound waves. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: How Does a Cell Phone Work?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about cell phones and how they work. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: How to Draw a Map
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how to draw a map. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Curated OER
Glenco Online: Teaching Today: Reading Comprehension and Considerate Text
Learn the features of "considerate text" and ways to teach students to use these features to increase their comprehension as they read. These features generally apply to non-fiction, especially textbooks.
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Procedural Texts and Signs
Practice your skill at following written directions in a procedural text recognizing common signs. Play in game mode or test mode.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Story Elements (1St Grade): Flashcards
These interactive flashcards provide definitions for different story elements. Engaging picture cues are provided for each flashcard, and students can play the audio to hear the words and definitions read aloud.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Building World Knowledge: Informational Text
Before, during, and after-reading ideas for introducing students to informational texts in the early-elementary grades in order to boost reading achievement through the upper-elementary grades.
NASA
Nasa: Classroom Activity: Our Very Own Star: The Sun
This PDF storybook for children tells the story of the sun. The easy-to-understand text and graphics make it a useful classroom tool for younger students.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Lafs.1.ri.4.10
This website offers various resources to meet the common core standard of reading informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1. Resources include center activities, lesson plans, and a professional development article.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Strategic
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to record prior knowledge before reading, ask questions while reading, and summarize a text after reading. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Book Look [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which learners look through a book to identify text features and complete a graphic organizer. Materials are included.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process
This lesson models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on an information wheel. Guiding the listening, looking, and learning...
Starfall
Starfall: A Computer
In this learning game, children click and drag pictures and words into boxes to create sentences, and then click on the computer to read or listen to sentences containing words and pictures.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Using Word and Picture Clues to Make an Inference
First graders will use text evidence to make inferences about word and word phrase meanings in a text. Word and picture clues will be used to help students form inferences.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Keyboarding Zoo 2
The keyboarding zoo is back! This fun and educational activity will focus on uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as typing words and making short sentences using the period key and spacebar.
Starfall
Starfall: Let's Be Pals
This interactive focuses on short sentences that include picture words.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Sequence of Events
Practice putting pictures and story events in order after reading a short text in this online learning activity.
Other
Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Classifying and Categorizing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart has a variety of different pages that cover many things from classification to penmanship.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Classifying and Categorizing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart has a variety of different pages that cover numerous things including classification, telling time, patterns, alphabet song, and penmanship.
Other
Hubbard's Cupboard: I Can Read! Environmental Print
This website provides "Environmental Print Cards," which can be printed out and used in a variety of learning activities through which young readers match images, sound out words, count syllables, and categorize products.