Reading First Activities Grade K

Contains activities based on the United States Dept. of Education's Reading First program.

This book is the richest, most comprehensive guided reading resource available today and the first systematic offering of instructional support for guided reading adherents.

Summarizes recent research in reading and helps teachers understand how to successfully teach children in grades Kindergarten through grade three how to read covering five areas of reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension.

Phonemic awareness--the understanding that words are made up of sounds--is essential to a child's early reading success. With this book, children gain this awareness through activities that are easy to teach and engaging. Children play with sounds through songs, rhymes, poetry, picture games, and other exercises. The activities cover the five basic levels of phonemic awareness: * the ability to hear rhymes and alliteration; * to do oddity tasks; * to orally blend word and split syllables; * to orally segment words; * to do phonemic manipulation tasks. Blends critical reading skills with joyful word play. For use with Grades K-2.

Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this series helps students master skills in mathematics and language arts. Each book provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead. Test practice pages are included in most titles.

During the course of a walk, a young boy identifies animals of different colors.