This fun, colorful 352-page book can be used as a textbook or a comprehensive workbook with your textbook to teach reading, writing, grammar, and punctuation skills and concepts that students are expected to know in first grade. They also develop critical thinking, vocabulary, and several other skills and concepts normally taught in second grade.
The engaging lessons include easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and charts for visual learners—and there is no lesson preparation! Each lesson is followed by a variety of fun, colorful, mind-building activities that use different genres.
Level B (Grade 1) Content
• Capitalization • Singular/Plural • Critical Thinking • Syllables • Cause and Effect • Letters • Compare/Contrast • Vowels • Deductive Reasoning • Word Families • Facts and inferences • Word Patterns • Prediction • Usage • Antonyms • Am, Is, and Are • Articles • Categorizing • Contractions • Comparing • Nouns • Double Negatives • Pronouns • Homographs • Sentences • Homophones • Subject and Predicate • I, Me, and Myself • Subject-Verb Agreement • Ordering • Synonyms • Sequencing • Verbs • Was and Were • Grammar • Writing • Punctuation • Characters • Apostrophes • Comparing • Commas • Context Clues • Exclamation Marks • Fiction and Nonfiction • Periods • Following Directions • Question Marks • Idioms • Spelling • Number Word Expressions • Alphabet • Poems • Compound Words • Rhymes • Consonants • Riddles • High Frequency Words • Setting • Silent E • Topic and Main Idea
