Help your first-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills!
 
Each of the 8 units provides a literary text in a minibook format, covering a variety of fiction genres such as folk tale, poetry, fable, and realistic fiction, as well as easy-to-scaffold activities that include:

• Vocabulary activity: Picture dictionary with content words and a “Words to Know” list
• Reading comprehension activities: “I Read Closely,” “I Read and Understand,” and “I Tell the Story”
• Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
• Genre activity: such as “I Read a Fable”
• Writing activity: “I Can Write”

Additional teacher support includes:

• Correlations for every unit for easy reference
• Downloadable home–school connection activities and projects help to increase parental involvement
• Guided reading levels to help identify appropriate texts for students
• A walk-through of each literary text selection and activity pages that support the unit

The 8 units explore these genres and reading selections:

• Realistic fiction: “Caleb’s Year”
• Poetry: “Color” and “Bed in Summer”
• Folk Tale: “The Ant’s Voice”
• Aesop’s Fable: “The Bear and the Bees”
• Nursery Rhyme: “Three Little Kittens”
• Historical Fiction: “Mary’s Fourth of July”
• Navajo Folk Tale: “Spider Woman”