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Need help teaching reading in your first grade classroom? This 139 page resource is jammed-packed with daily lesson plans for Reader’s Workshop, read aloud, or your literacy block. This month’s focus is visualization, inferences, nonfiction reading, vocabulary, and writing for first grade. An assessment rubric for teachers and students for Mental Images is included. This resource is offered in printable and digital so you can use it in the classroom or virtually through Google Classroom or SeeSaw.

EVERYTHING you need is included!

This month’s books are:

Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution by Pat Miller
Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner
This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
Recess at 20 Below by Cindy Aillaud

There are four weeks worth of lesson plans! The lesson plans were carefully crafted to include objectives, reading strategies, vocabulary, comprehension strategies for fiction and nonfiction, craftivities, and anchor charts. This month’s focus is visualization, which will be assessed the 3rd week. Students also compare and contrast similar books, practice retell, make connections and inferences.

Original nonfiction and fiction texts are included with this unit. The nonfiction texts include stunning photographs and nonfiction text features such as labels, captions, titles, maps, diagrams, table of contents, etc.