Grade 1 Literacy Lessons
Build your students' knowledge with folk tales from around the world and support skill acquisition with spelling, phonics, and grammar lessons.
Grades: 1st Grade
Phonics Activities
Engage young learners with engaging activities that build phonics skills and language development. Students practice changing initial and final CVC letters. These activities are ideal for whole class activities, transitions, circle time, or small group interventions!
- Switching Beginning Consonant Sounds: Level 1 (CVC)
- Switching Beginning Consonant Sounds: Level 2 (CVCC)
- Switching Middle Vowel Sounds: Level 1 (CVC)
- Switching Middle Vowel Sounds: Level 2 (CVCC)
- Switching Ending Consonant Sounds: Level 1 (CVC)
- Switching Ending Consonant Sounds: Level 2 (CVCC)
- Sing The Letter Sounds
- Rap The Digraphs
- Make Your Own Letter Rap: Consonants
- Make Your Own Letter Rap: Vowels
- Make Your Own Letter Rap: Commonly Confused Letters
- Elkonin Boxes — How Many Sounds Are In the Word?
- What Digraph Starts the Word?
- What's the Word?
- Magic ‘e’
Skills Lessons
Students are introduced to five vowel sounds and the most common (or least ambiguous) spelling for each sound. They also learn to read and write words with separated digraphs, such as the ‘a’ and ‘e’ in cake. These lessons includes grammar lessons on nouns—including proper nouns—as well as practice with new Tricky Words.
- Basic Code: Introduce /ee/ › ‘ee’
- Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns
- Basic Code: Introduce /ae/ › ‘a_e’
- Review: Common Nouns and /ae/ › ‘a_e’
- Tricky Words: Introduce: They and Their
- Basic Code: Introduce /ie/ › ‘i_e’
- Grammar, Review: Common and Proper Nouns and Tricky Words
- Basic Code: Introduce /oe/ › ‘o_e’
- Review: Long Vowels and Nouns
- Tricky Words: Introduce: My and By
- Grammar, Review: Nouns and Tricky Words
- Basic Code: Introduce /ue/ › ‘u_e’
- Tricky Word: Introduce: You
- Tricky Word: Introduce: Your
- Review: Tricky Words and Long and Short Vowels
- Review: Nouns and Tricky Words
Common Threads: Different Lands, Similar Stories
Explore fairy tales and folktales from around the world, and discover the universal themes they share. Along the way, students compare characters and structure, build comprehension skills, and reflect on what stories can teach us. Explore the Teacher Guide in the domain overview to help you prepare! Want to learn more about Amplify CKLA? Explore the curriculum here.
- Domain 3 Overview
- Cinderella
- The Woman with the Red Slippers
- Billy Beg
- Tom Thumb
- Thumbelina
- Issun Boshi: One-Inch Boy
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Hu Gu Po
- Tselane
- Publishing and Sharing a Narrative