Vocabulary for 1st grader: First Grade Vocabulary Words

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)

Alabama 1st Grade Academic Vocabulary – Social Studies

Grades: 1-1

Ages: 6-7


Series: State Experience

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ISBN: 978-0-635-10242-3

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The Alabama Academic Vocabulary Teacher’s Edition book for 1st Grade includes 60 grade-specific words from Alabama’s Social Studies Standards and Common Core ELA Curriculum! The Alabama Academic Teacher’s Edition includes a “week of words” in a straightforward, thought-provoking, and FUN format. Every day for first four days of the week, you’ll give students a new vocabulary word which includes a definition, an interesting fact, and a “Think About It” discussion question. On day five, students will take a quiz on the four words using the companion Student Practice Workbook. There are 15 weeks of quizzes. A must-have for every teacher!

The Alabama Vocabulary Teacher’s Edition:
1. includes key vocabulary words hand-picked and correlated to Alabama’s Social Studies Standards.
2. uses a focused approach to build students’ comprehension of the social studies standards by developing their understanding of integral vocabulary.
3. has a consistent format that is easy for teachers and effective for students.
4. includes reinforcing activities that engage students and strengthen vocabulary retention.
5. helps students learn how to apply their new words.
6. includes assessments for each vocabulary word.

This Alabama Academic Vocabulary Teacher’s Edition is a valuable test-prep tool when used with the companion Student Practice Workbook.

The vocabulary words are:
authentic • barter borrow • capital city • cardinal directions • celebration • choice • citizen • coast • communication • community • compass rose • conservation • contribution • distance • environment • ethnic • fact • fictional • future • geography • globe • goods • governor • human resources • job • lake • law • leader • map • mayor • money • mountain • natural resources • needs • occupation • ocean • past • present • primary source • recreation • recycling • responsibilities • rights • river • rules • save • secondary source • • services • spend • state • tax • technology • timeline • tourism • trade • tradition • vote • wants

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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: