📖 ReadingLevel 1Lesson 39
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Review What You Learned

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Learning Objectives

  • 1Recall and explain the key skills from all five Grade 1 Reading units
  • 2Identify personal strengths and areas for continued growth
  • 3Reflect on the full-year reading journey
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Mini Lesson

You have traveled through five units and completed 38 reading lessons. Before your final celebration, it is time to look back at how far you have come. Every skill you have learned this year makes you a stronger, more confident reader.

Unit 1 — Sounds and Words (Lessons 1–8)

  • Short vowel CVC words, blending sounds, consonant digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh)
  • Consonant blends (bl, cr, st, tr, pl), long vowel silent-e words
  • High-frequency sight words, rhyming words and word families
  • Reading short sentences with expression

Unit 2 — Understanding Stories (Lessons 9–16)

  • Who, what, where questions · Main characters and setting
  • Beginning, middle, and end · Predicting what happens next
  • Feelings in stories · Favorite parts · Lessons and morals
  • Fiction versus nonfiction

Unit 3 — Reading for Information (Lessons 17–24)

  • Signs and labels · Short articles about animals
  • Weather, helpers, maps and charts, instructions
  • Facts about the Earth · Reading a nonfiction book

Unit 4 — Reading Together (Lessons 25–32)

  • Partner reading · Reading games · Reading aloud with expression
  • Listening carefully · Asking and answering questions (R.A.C.E.)
  • Discussing endings · Comparing two stories (Venn diagram)
  • Acting out a story

Unit 5 — Reading Projects (Lessons 33–39)

  • Reading log · Book cover design · Read Around the World passport
  • Illustrating a favorite scene · Sharing a favorite book
  • Reading a story to an audience · This review lesson!
Six reading units icon grid covering the full yearA 3 by 2 grid of colored panels with icons and labels for the year's reading topics — phonics (letter and sound), sight words (card), story parts (book), non-fiction (news), fluency (mouth with sound waves), comprehension (question mark).Everything you learned this yearaPhonicsletter + soundtheSight Wordsknow on sightStory PartsB · M · ENon-Fictionfacts + infoFluencysmooth + expressive?Comprehensionunderstand + explain
Six reading topics from the year — phonics, sight words, story parts, non-fiction, fluency, and comprehension.
Reading mind map with central Reading node and six branchesA central circle labeled Reading connects to six labeled branches — Phonics, Sight Words, Story Parts, Non-Fiction, Fluency, and Comprehension — showing how all the year's topics connect back to reading.Everything connects to ReadingReading★ Grade 1 ★PhonicsCVC · blendsSight Wordsknow instantlyStory PartsB · M · ENon-Fictionfacts · infoFluencysmooth readingComprehendask · answer
Reading at the center — six branches connect all the year's topics into one big picture.
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Ask yourself: "Which skill am I most proud of? Which one do I still want to practice?"

Vocabulary
Review
Looking back at what you have learned to remember and consolidate your skillse.g. Today we will review everything from the whole year of reading.
Reflection
Thinking carefully about your own learning — what went well and what to keep practicinge.g. My reflection showed that I am proud of my book cover.
Unit
A group of lessons that share one big topic or skille.g. Unit 3 was all about reading for information.
Skill
Something you can now do well because you have practiced ite.g. Decoding CVC words is a reading skill.
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