First Grade Reading

About Grade 1 Reading

Grade 1 reading (1st grade, ages 6–7) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Sounds and Words (lessons 1–8), Understanding Stories (lessons 9–16), Reading for Information (lessons 17–24), Reading Together (lessons 25–32), and finally Reading Projects (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to use clues from the story to predict the most likely next event, read a short nonfiction article about community helpers and apply four active listening skills while a story is read aloud.

Start here: Lesson 1: Short Vowel Sounds CVC is free to open and print. Every other lesson has a free preview of its mini lesson and vocabulary.

Paper first: each lesson is printed before you call your child. You read it once and talk it through, your child does the exercises on paper, and you correct together with the Parent checklist — about 45 minutes at the table. The next day, a 10-minute screen review of the same lesson.