Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Your first graders have been hard at work on their reading skills this year! Use this quick one-on-one reading inventory to gauge and assess your students' abilities to read grade-level sight words.

Have your first graders conquered the compound word? It's time to find out! Use this quick reading assessment to evaluate your students’ abilities to read compound words, such as sunflower, bookcase, and cowboy.

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Assess student understanding of common spelling patterns for vowel sounds with this quick sorting exercise. Young readers will read words and then write them out in the appropriate column for long or short vowel sounds.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Context clues worksheets help your child read between the lines. Try this context clues worksheet with your young reader to help him infer based on text.

Use this resource to support your students in discussing and writing a first person narrative. They will read a paragraph written as a third person narrative, and they will describe it as a first person narrative using a graphic organizer.