Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled fiction stories and comprehension activities! Engage first-grade students in reading comprehension skills with high-quality lessons that include six fiction genres, minibooks and picture dictionaries, oral discussions, comprehension activities, literary analysis activities, and writing activities.
Teach reading comprehension skills and fiction genre study to your first-grade students!
Choose from eight units that span fiction genres or use them all!
• Realistic fiction
• Historical fiction
• Folk tales
• Fables
• Rhymes
• Poetry
Each unit includes:
• Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
• A leveled reading selection in an illustrated minibook format
• Vocabulary activity: Picture dictionary with content words and a "Words to Know" list
• Reading comprehension activities: "I Read Closely," "I Read and Understand," and "I Tell the Story"
• Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
• Genre activity such as "I Read a Fable"
• Writing activity: "I Can Write"
Additional teacher resources:
• Reproducible reading journal for students
• "How to Be a Good Reader" resource page for students
• Overview of texts that includes the reading level, genre, and literary element or story structure
The eight illustrated reading selections in the grade 1 book are:
• Realistic fiction: "Caleb’s Year," Level D
• Poetry: "Color," Level D
• Poetry: "Bed in Summer," Level E
• Folk Tale: "The Ant’s Voice," Level F
• Aesop’s Fable: "The Bear and the Bees," Level G
• Nursery Rhyme: "Three Little Kittens," Level H
• Historical Fiction: "Mary’s Fourth of July," Level H
• A Navajo Folk Tale: "Spider Woman," Level I
Evan-Moor’s Reading Comprehension: Fiction is an ideal classroom and homeschool teaching resource to develop reading skills!
Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Literary Text and includes updates to the content.
