LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

English Language Arts — Grade 1

Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.

Objective 1.03. Use pronunciation, sentence meaning, story meaning, and syntax to confirm accurate decoding or to self-correct errors.

Additional related resources

We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.

General resources

Aligned lesson plans

Cross-checking: An early reading strategy
Beginning readers need to learn how to bring together two sources of information simultaneously. They have to think about what would make sense and think about letters/sounds; cross-checking. Most children prefer to do one or the other, but not both. Therefore, some children guess something that is sensible but ignore the visual (letter/sound) and others guess something which is close to the visual but makes no sense in the sentence. This activity will demonstrate how to cross check.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
By Jane Kate Blackmon.

Resources on the web

Phonic generalizations in "Chrysanthemum"
This ReadWriteThink lesson uses an active, hands-on activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. Authentic literature provides an excellent framework for teaching decoding and spelling. The... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink