GRADE 1/CHOICE BOARDCreated by Deb Watters

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LET’S TALK TOGETHER ORAL LANGUAGE CARDSThis site offers free picture cards that help to promote spoken language and increase students’ vocabulary. The language cards focus on classification, word retrieval, explanatory language, and answering open-ended questions.

LALILO PHONICS AND COMPREHENSION, K-3This site provides free activities that focus on word recognition, word family, and comprehension. Teachers can set up a class list and send the classroom code to students and parents. Students complete an online placement test, and the activities are then differentiated.

Information about the program can be found under the “Resources” tab, including a video to get your students started.

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SPELD PHONICS BOOKSVisit SPELD to download dozens of phonics books, organized by “sequence of sound,” and based on the Jolly Phonics early literacy program.

Select the book(s) that are appropriate for your students’ development.

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TEACH YOUR MONSTER TO READ, K-3This program has three game levels, ranging from letters/sounds, to blending and segmenting words, to tricky “sight” words.

The program supports the developmental trajectory of how children acquire literacy skills.

LITERACY AND MATH

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LITERACY PLACE SHARED E-READING BOOKSLiteracy Place offers a number of books for students in Grades 1, 2, and 3.

The full-colour books have a variety of viewing options, and include teaching plans.

BOOKFLIXScholastic’s BookFlix offers a number of titles on a range of topics. A fiction and non-fiction book on the same topic are paired, and the highlighted text allows students to follow along easily with the story.

Students have the opportunity to complete follow up activities, such as word games, videos, and projects. An “Explore the Web” section provides a variety of links to other videos, songs, poems, and reading materials.

Visit BookFlix for more information or to register.

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SCHOLASTIC LEARN AT HOME, GRADES 1 AND 2 This program provides a weekly plan with daily lessons that include fiction and non-fiction books from Bookflix. Students can read the book, or watch the story with highlighted text. Students then have the opportunity to complete a number of follow-up activities.

Visit Scholastic for more information.

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TRUEFLIXScholastic’s TrueFlix offers hundreds of books, in full colour, including many non-fiction options on topics such as science, nature, people, geography, and history.

Visit TrueFlix for more information or to register.

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RAZ-KIDSThis site is currently offering free subscriptions, and provides access to books at 29 different reading levels.

The program includes live webinars and instructions in the “Teacher Corner” section, which will show you how to track students and create assignments.

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HEADSPROUTStudents complete interactive online activities that continually teach critical foundational reading skills and comprehension strategies. The program adapts to the reading needs of individual students, and is easy to use.

Visit Headsprout for more information or to sign-up for free.

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SCAVENGER HUNTSScavenger hunts are a good way for students to do purposeful reading. Many scavenger hunts include both text and pictures, so they are naturally differentiated. They can be done inside and/or outside. Below are three online resources to help you create scavenger hunts for your students.

30 Free Printable Scavenger Hunts

Primary Playground Scavenger Hunts

Hands On As We Grow Scavenger Hunts

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JOURNALSIf journals have been part of your class’ daily or weekly practice, this is something to consider continuing while students are engaged in emergency distance learning.

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WRITING ACTIVITIESSign up for free and gain access to a variety of writing activities for students in Grades 1 through 3.

There are a variety of activities available to download. Find activities that are developmentally appropriate for your students, or differentiate the activities.

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BEDTIME MATHThis site has a variety of activities and games with instructions, required materials, and prompting questions, organized by grade. Games are fun and easy to create.

MATHIESThe Mathies site offers lots of great resources, organized by grade and math strand.

Click on the “WINS” icon in the “Home Supports” section for activities that focus on number sense and numeration.

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MATH BEFORE BEDThis site has over a 100 visual prompts to get learners talking about math. Prompts can be chosen by strand.

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TUMBLE MATHThis site offers a wide variety of picture books that support learning in all of the math strands. Learners can follow along with highlighted text and listen to an audio version of the book.

Books can be sorted by math strand, and include lesson plans for educators.

For optimal performance, use Google Chrome.

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EYES ON MATH, K-2This site offers a PDF version of the visual prompts from Marian Small’s book, Eyes on Math.

The activities provide excellent provocations to get students talking and thinking about math in all strands.

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