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Welcome to Selinsgrove

Elementary’s First Grade

Literacy Night!

The State Board approved newChapter 4 regulations whichtook effect on March 1, 2014.

These are known as the:

Pennsylvani

a Core Standards

The PA Department of Education speak of these

standards as: 

•a set of rigorous expectations•high-quality academic expectations• robust standards • relevant to the real world • reflect the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in life after high school

Samples of some of these First Grade standards are:

• Capitalize dates and names of people, use end punctuation, and spell words drawing on common spelling patterns, phonemic awareness, and spelling conventions.

• Identify the main

idea and retell key

details of text.

Samples of some of these First Grade standards are:

• Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of character in stories.

• Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide range of text types.

• Form, write and support an opinion with reasons related to the opinion.

Phonics and Sight WordActivities

You Can Practice With Your Child

Phonics: Why is it important?

o Phonics allows your child to connect the sounds he hears to the written letter or word.

Activities to Try with Your Child:

1. White Board Spelling

2. Change-a-Letter

frog

batc

Activities to Try with Your Child:

3. Writing Words

4. Silent Rhyming

hotpotnotgot

Activities to Try with Your Child:

5. Bathtub Phonics

6. Word Family Collage

Activities to Try with Your Child:

7. Fancy Fingers

8. Building Words

hat

hat ha

t

b a td o g

Sight Words:Why are they important?o Sight words refer to the words

that are most frequently used and repeated in books. Sight words are also sometimes referred to as high frequency words, star words or vocabulary words.

Activities to Try with Your Child:

1. One Breath Word Boxes

2.I SPY Sight Word Bottles

Activities to Try with Your Child:

3. Sight Word Swat

what how can not

4. Hamburger/Pancake Flip Sight Words

see

whenfrom

Activities to Try with Your Child:

5. Sight Word Parking Lot

6. Mystery Words Coloring

Activities to Try with Your Child:

7. Sight Word Aerobics

to p

Activities to Try with Your Child:8. Using Manipulatives

Activities to Try with Your Child:

9. Sight Word Scavenger Hunt

10. Sight Word Relay

the

to

aef o

b

dg

sn

b u t

Guided Reading

Guided reading occurs when a teacher meets with a small, flexible group of students with a common reading goal.

During guided reading, your child has the opportunity to develop reading strategies in order to read increasingly difficult stories independently.

Reading Aloud to Your Child at Home

o Read aloud every day!

o Answer your child’s questions, even if they interrupt the story.

Reading Aloud to Your Child at Home

o Talk as you read. Ask questions like:

“What do

you think

is going

to happen

next?”

“Why did that character do that?”

“What would you do?”

Reading Aloud to

Your Child at Home

o Read books that are interesting to your child.

o Encourage your child!

Reading Aloud to Your Child at Home

o Have your child retell the story in his or her own words.

o After finishing the book, talk with your child about what you read.

Thank You for Attending

Selinsgrove Elementary’s First Grade

Literacy Night!