Grade 1 - Reading Comprehension Unit - BC Language - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 1 - Reading Comprehension Unit - BC Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 1 Reading Comprehension unit in the BC 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 resource covers all learning standards, elaborations, and Big Ideas related to reading strategies, comprehension, text forms, and stories in the grade 1 British Columbia Language (ELA) curriculum. There are 359 pages for students to master the skills they need to meet the requirements of the curriculum.

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

Included in this resource are the learning standards below:

Story/Text: elements of story, functions and genres, text features, and literary elements and devices.

Reading Strategies: using illustrations and prior knowledge to predict meaning; rereading; retelling in own words; locating the main idea and details; using knowledge of language patterns and phonics to decode words; identifying familiar and “sight” words; monitoring (look right, sound right, make sense)

Metacognitive Strategies: goal setting, self-evaluating, and reflections

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
• 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
• 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
• 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 - BC Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Reading Comprehension, Grade 1, BC 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.