Grade 1 - Reading Comprehension - Saskatchewan Language - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 1 - Reading Comprehension Unit - Saskatchewan Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 1 Reading Comprehension unit in the Saskatchewan Language Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Workbook Details:
This 377-page resource covers all outcomes and indicators related to reading comprehension in the Saskatchewan Language Curriculum (ELA).

We’ve included a variety of activities, including independent reading responses, group activities, assignments, exemplars, and hands-on activities to keep your students engaged.

Included in this resource are the elaborations within the elements below:

Comprehend and Respond (CR) – students will listen, read, comprehend, and respond to grade-appropriate texts.

Assess and Reflect (AR) – reflect and set personalized goals related to reading fluency and comprehension.

In addition, we have included a full-year long range plan that outlines what concepts from the curriculum you will be teaching each week/block.

Some of the concepts covered:

• Vocabulary To Talk About Texts – author, book, chapter, page, illustrator, website, webpage, etc.
• What is reading comprehension?
• Before reading: comprehension strategies – activating prior knowledge and reasons for reading
• During reading: comprehension strategies – questioning, making connections, inferences, predictions, visualizing
• After reading: comprehension strategies – summarizing, making inferences, visualizing
• Monitoring understanding – does it look right, does it sound right, does it make sense?
• Jokes and riddles
• Reading strategies: chunking words (compound words) and stretching words
• Independent reading texts and response questions
• Independent reading response package – booklet
• Imaginary (fiction) versus real (non-fiction) messages
• Environmental print – identify signs, symbols, and text
• Visualizing texts – listening to stories written above grade level
• All about me – identity poster
• Letter writing – making inferences
• Email versus letters – text forms and text patterns
• Sentence structure in letter writing
• Narratives – myths
• Indigenous cultural stories
• Narrator’s point of view
• Different points of view in stories
• Imaginary stories: fairy tales, fables, and realistic stories
• Literary devices in narratives – alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhymes
• Sequencing the plot of a short story
• Cause and effect in short stories
• Procedural writing – following instructions to draw and make objects
• Comparing procedural writing – with visuals and without
• Text features in reports – headings, subheadings, table of contents, charts, pictures
• Identity, Community And Social Responsibility
• Summarizing reports – main idea
• Poetry – haiku, limerick, acrostic, and rhyming poems
• Literary devices in poetry – rhyme and alliteration
• Book reviews – finding bias and different points of view
• Graphic texts – timelines, comics, diagrams, infographics, maps
• Biographies – Isaac Newton, Tooth Fairy, Chris Hadfield, Mother Teresa
• Researching facts about a famous person
• Writing a biography about a friend
• Identifying familiar and “sight” words
• Metacognitive activities: reading goals, using reading strategies reflections, tracking reading times
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 1 - Reading Comprehension Unit - Google Lesson Slides - Saskatchewan Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Reading Comprehension, Grade 1, Saskatchewan Language Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals

- Discussion Questions

- Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Drawing

- Writing

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- Quizzes

- Reflection

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download a copy of this file to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.