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Grade 1 – Language Arts

Phonics and decoding; reading sentences and short books; printing words and sentences.

Goals for this unit
  • Decode CVC and common short-vowel words; read simple sentences with fluency.
  • Write words and simple sentences; retell stories with beginning, middle, end.
Activity 1: Decode and read

Read these words: cat, sit, run, bed, hop. Write one more short-vowel word and read it.

Activity 2: Read a sentence

Read a simple sentence from a book. Copy the sentence below.

Activity 3: Retell a story

After listening to a story: What happened at the beginning? In the middle? At the end?