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Additional Activities

Here are easy activities you can do with your child to help reinforce the First Grade language arts standards.

For several activities, we have listed similar online activities that your child can explore themselves or that you and your child can do together.


  • Provide a variety of types of reading materials for your child, such as books, magazines, newspapers, empty food boxes, junk mail, etc.
  • Reward your child with books or journals.
  • Get your child a library card. Go to the library or bookstore regularly.
  • Read books to your child so he will develop ease and confidence in reading.
  • Use different voices when reading aloud for different characters in a story.
  • After reading a story, ask your child to pick out his favorite word in the story. Discuss what he likes about the word and why the author may have chosen it.

Skill:

Encourage your child to keep a journal

Activities:
  • Daily Writing Ideas

    Here is a whole school year of writing ideas for your journal, notebook, class writing, or just for fun!

  • Journal Topics

    This enormous list of writing prompts will have you writing in a hurry.

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Read aloud to your child and ask him to respond to a story by drawing a picture

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Ask your child to describe a place or object using a word for each of the five senses

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  • Shape Poems

    Write a poem in a shape! Try writing a tree, diamond, or circle shaped poem.

  • Shape-Book Patterns

    Use these pages to write stories in lots of different shapes!

  • Art Safari

    Look at the art and write what you see and how you feel.

  • The Farm

    Can you use the words to describe parts of the farm?

Skill:

Have your child write thank you notes for gifts on special occasions

Activities:
  • Letter Generator

    Use the Letter Generator to write your very own letter to a friend or family member.

  • Postcard Creator

    Use the Postcard Creator to make a postcard to a friend!

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Find books to listen to and read online

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  • Storynory

    This site has lots of stories that you can read and listen to.

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Even more activities to explore

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