Vocabulary for 1st grader: Academic vocabulary words for 1st graders
Vocabulary for 1st Grade | NC DPI
What is Vocabulary?
Vocabulary refers to knowledge of the meanings of individual words being read. Vocabulary knowledge is important to a student’s ability to read and comprehend what is read. (Definition from University of Oregon)
In 1st grade, readers strive to learn many new words and their meanings. Growing vocabularies will help them academically and socially.
What Does it Look Like?
What does it look like to talk about vocabulary?
Practice Activities
Read to Build Vocabulary: While reading with the child, talk about the text, helping the child understand important vocabulary words in the story. Watch Read to Build Vocabulary.
Conversation in the Kitchen: Through conversation, use every day activities to build the child’s language and vocabulary. Watch Conversation in the Kitchen.
Word Chain: Give the child a word and take turns brainstorming words that mean the same thing as the word that was named (e.g., big, huge, large). This game can also be played by brainstorming words that mean the opposite of the word that was named.
Add Details: Encourage the child to include details when talking and/or writing by asking for more information (e.g., I see a brown truck that delivers packages. vs. I see a truck). One way to encourage the child to include more details is by asking the child what they see, hear, smell, taste, and feel.
Practice Activities (with Printables)
If you don’t have a printer, your child’s school will print these for you.
Multiple Meaning Bugs: Connect multiple meanings to one word in this bug game. Multiple Meaning Bugs
Word Connection: Identify similarities and differences between the meanings of words.
Word Connection
If the Word Fits: Use words in context with sentence cards. If the Word Fits
Four Square Vocabulary Map: Describe a word by completing a Four Square Vocabulary Map. Four Square Vocabulary Map
Action Word Ring Sort: Select words that describe a picture card. Action Word Ring Sort
Online Activities
Multiple Meaning Words: This activity includes matching sentences to demonstrate an understanding of words with multiple meanings.
Shades of Meaning: This activity has children select words that are related from a given group of words.
Word Smith: This game includes matching 3 sets of pictures to words read.
What Does This Mean?: This Classroom Connect lesson focuses on determining word meanings and identifying prefixes and base words. Extension Activity (optional)
First Grade Spelling Words – Free 1st Grade weekly List, Worksheets
The first grade spelling words program below covers 36 weeks with each week containing 5 different printable spelling worksheet activities.
Schools, teachers and parents may print and duplicate materials for the classroom, or distribute for home use. (read more about the spelling curriculum design). To take full advantage of the program, consider using the spelling program together with the companion 1st grade reading comprehension worksheets.
Teacher / Parent Materials (PDF Format)
Master Spelling List (36 weeks/4 pages) Download Master Spelling List
36 weeks of spelling lists, and covers sight words, academic words, and 1st grade level appropriate patterns for words, focusing on word families, prefixes/suffixes, and word roots/origins.
Dictation Sentences are included in each week’s activity set: After writing all the spelling words, students write the sentence as you read it. This helps ensure that students are making the connection between the spelling words and how they are used in context. It also allows you to check and correct problems with language conventions such as capitalization and punctuation.
Student Materials – First Grade Spelling List Worksheets (PDF Format)
| Master 1st Grade Spelling List Master Spelling List for all weeks |
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| Week 1 Word List Week 1 Spelling Words (List A-1): Sight words and -at family words |
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| Week 2 Word List Week 2 Spelling Words (List A-2): Sight words and -an family words |
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| Week 3 Word List Week 3 Spelling Words (List A-3): Sight words and -ap family words |
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| Week 4 Word List Week 4 Spelling Words (List A-4): Sight words and -ack family words |
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| Week 5 Word List Week 5 Spelling Words (List A-5): Sight words and -it family words |
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| Week 6 Word List Week 6 Spelling Words (List A-6): Sight words and -ig family words |
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| Week 7 Word List Week 7 Spelling Words (List A-7): Sight words and -in family words |
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| Week 8 Word List Week 8 Spelling Words (List A-8): Sight words and -ick family words |
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| Week 9 Word List Week 9 Spelling Words (List A-9): Sight words and -ot family words |
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| Week 10 Word List Week 10 Spelling Words (List A-10): Sight words and-op family words |
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| Week 11 Word List Week 11 Spelling Words (List A-11): Sight words and -ob family words |
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| Week 12 Word List Week 12 Spelling Words (List A-12): Sight words and -ock family words |
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| Week 13 Word List Week 13 Spelling Words (List A-13): Sight words and -ut family words |
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| Week 14 Word List Week 14 Spelling Words (List A-14): Sight words and -ug family words |
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| Week 15 Word List Week 15 Spelling Words (List A-15): Sight words and -un family words |
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| Week 16 Word List Week 16 Spelling Words (List A-16): Sight words and -uck family words |
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| Week 17 Word List Week 17 Spelling Words (List A-17): Sight words and -et family words |
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| Week 18 Word List Week 18 Spelling Words (List A-18): Sight words and -ed family words |
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| Week 19 Word List Week 19 Spelling Words (List A-19): Sight words and-en family words |
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| Week 20 Word List Week 20 Spelling Words (List A-20): Sight words and -ell family words |
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| Week 21 Word List Week 21 Spelling Words (List A-21): Sight words and short “a” pattern words |
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| Week 22 Word List Week 22 Spelling Words (List A-22): Sight words and short “i” pattern words |
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| Week 23 Word List Week 23 Spelling Words (List A-23): Sight words and short “o” pattern words |
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| Week 24 Word List Week 24 Spelling Words (List A-24): Sight words and short “u” pattern words |
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| Week 25 Word List Week 25 Spelling Words (List A-25): Sight words and short “e” pattern words |
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| Week 26 Word List Week 26 Spelling Words (List A-26): Long “a” pattern -a-e words and academic vocabulary |
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| Week 27 Word List Week 27 Spelling Words (List A-27): Long “a” pattern -ay words and academic vocabulary |
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| Week 28 Word List Week 28 Spelling Words (List A-28): Long “i” pattern -i-e words and academic vocabulary |
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| Week 29 Word List Week 29 Spelling Words (List A-29): Long “i” pattern -y words and academic vocabulary |
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| Week 30 Word List Week 30 Spelling Words (List A-30): Long “o” pattern -o-e words and academic vocabulary |
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| Week 31 Word List Week 31 Spelling Words (List A-31): Long “o” pattern -ow words and academic vocabulary |
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| Week 32 Word List Week 32 Spelling Words (List A-32): Long “o” pattern –oa- words and academic vocabulary |
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| Week 33 Word List Week 33 Spelling Words (List A-33): Short “oo”pattern -oo- words and academic vocabulary |
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| Week 34 Word List Week 34 Spelling Words (List A-34): -ow pattern words and academic vocabulary |
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| Week 35 Word List Week 35 Spelling Words (List A-35): Long “oo” pattern words and academic vocabulary |
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| Week 36 Word List Week 36 Spelling Words (List A-36): Long “e” pattern -ee- words and academic vocabulary |
Vocabulary work using critical thinking development techniques for grade 1 students.
And the Word was from the beginning.
And so be it.
Learn to admire the word.
Know how to cherish the word.
Catch the word with a pure heart
And keep it like a hearth!
Burn with the word and breathe.
There is a friend word and an enemy word.
E. Potekhina
Educational project
Vocabulary work
using techniques
for the development of critical
900 04 thinking for students
1st grade.
Designed by
primary school teacher
MBOU secondary school No. 10 Chekhov
Polukhina L.A.
Relevance
Improving the spelling literacy of students remains one of the most important problems in the methodology of teaching the Russian language in elementary school.
According to GEF: “Primary school is designed to ensure the formation of strong literacy skills.”
The work of a primary school teacher in a modern school involves the development of students’ creative abilities by searching for effective methods and methods of teaching.
Methods and techniques for the development of critical thinking allow to intensify mental activity and develop spelling vigilance of younger students.
Hypothesis
If interactive forms of work are used during vocabulary work, this will help not only in the formation of spelling vigilance and literate speech, but will also contribute to the development and formation of schoolchildren’s communicative competence.
The effectiveness of the project
The system of vocabulary and orthographic work using methodological techniques for the development of critical thinking contributes to the formation of students’ ability to consciously perceive and memorize new words, explain their meaning and spelling.
The result is an increase in spelling literacy and communication skills of students.
Vocabulary dictations
2015-2016 academic year (Grade 4)
Diagnostic tests
(orthoepic and lexical tasks)
2015-2016 academic year (Grade 4)
Interactive game
Vocabulary gatherings
2015-2016 academic year (4th grade)
Intellectual ring
“Mysterious phraseological units”
Purpose of the project
Development of a system of vocabulary and spelling work in elementary school (Grade 1) using techniques for the development of critical thinking
thinking.
Project objectives:
1. Activate and enrich the vocabulary of 1st grade students.
2. To form the skill of spelling words on the basis of deepening knowledge about objects and phenomena of the surrounding world.
3. To teach first graders to generalize, analyze, argue,
identify the positive and negative aspects of objects and phenomena.
4. To develop students’ critical thinking.
5. Foster a culture of communication.
Project stages:
compilation of sentences, rhyming pairs, association by features) – September 2016-January 2017.
2. Basic (work with vocabulary words using
techniques to develop critical thinking) – February –
April 2017. 9 0007
3.Final
- Intellectual game « Dictionary gatherings”
- Family holiday “Our strong family with a dictionary is always friendly!”- May 2017
Circles of knowledge
dog
Matryoshka
pencil
Wound, gift, cancer, ball, porridge, charade.
Cubing
guys
1. What are they?
1. What are they?
2. Associations, thoughts.
3. Replace with other words.
4.Burime.
5. Write questions.
2. Associations,
thoughts.
Pyramid
complex
interesting
neat work
Color associations
Crow milk sorrel
Snow, bread,…..
Spring, grasshopper, ….
Coal, hole,…
Crossroads
teacher
student
student
class breakfast
handle lunch
chalk pencil
Positive ring
boy girl
It’s good that I’m a boy because I can play football.
It’s good that I’m a girl because I can wear skirts.
…… ..
………
Magnet
notebook 90 006
portfolio
pencil case
…………………… .
Three in one
capital 0292 Moscow
Russia
Compilation of sentences and questions with words.
Circle
cow
milk
Students analyze each item and determine the area of intersection.
Russian language – real, strong,
where necessary – strict, serious,
where necessary – passionate,
900 05 where necessary – brisk, lively.
L.N. Tolstoy
Thank you
for
attention!
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