The perfect supplement to your core early reading program!

Everyday Literacy: Listening and Speaking, Grade 1 helps you support reading and oral language development in your early reading program with fun, focused daily lessons.

The 20 weekly units in grade 1 cover Reading First's Five Essential Components, including:

Oral Vocabulary Development:

• Relating new vocabulary to prior knowledge
• Identifying and sorting common words (colors, shapes foods)
• Describing people, places, things, locations, and actions
• Determining the purpose for listening (getting information, solving problems, enjoyment)
• Retelling a spoken message by summarizing
• Listening critically to interpret and evaluate
• Developing auditory memory
• Taking turns speaking in a group

Comprehension:

• Making predictions
• Responding to open-ended questions
• Making inferences and drawing conclusions
• Making connections using illustrations, prior knowledge, and real-life experiences
• Identifying sequences of events
• Identifying the beginning, middle, and end of a story
• Comparing and contrasting
• Distinguishing between fiction and nonfiction
• Determining cause and effect
• Retelling a story

Phonological Awareness:

• Repeating auditory sequences of letters, words and patterns
• Identifying digraphs -ch, sh, th, and wh
• Blending words phoneme by phoneme
• Manipulating final sounds in a word
• Deleting initial sounds in a word
• Identifying medial short and long vowel sounds