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This video shows Arthur, an elementary student, preparing for spelling in class. this video can show kids that spelling is not always easy but that they are more than capable.

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This game is interactive for children that allows them to use technology to learn how to spell. They hear the word and attempt to spell it!

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This interactive activity is embedded in our First Grade Language Arts 1 course. In this course, students receive structured lessons on readiness skills through emphasis on phonics, language skills, literature, and handwriting to help develop comprehension, build vocabulary, and promote a lifelong interest in reading.

Phonics: There are 36 units in the Phonics program. Each unit contains five lessons. In the first four lessons, students learn new skills or practice what they've previously learned. The fifth lesson in each unit begins with online review and practice activities that reinforce skills learned in the unit, and is followed by an offline unit assessment. In some lessons, students will read an online decodable reader. These are short, interactive stories that consist entirely of words students are able to read. Students will acquire the critical skills and knowledge required for reading and literacy.

Literature and Comprehension: The K12 Language Arts Literature and Comprehension program consists of 24 units with reading selections from the Classics anthology, nonfiction magazines, trade books, and other books students choose for themselves. Students will listen to and read a variety of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to develop their reading comprehension skills.

Handwriting: Students will further develop their handwriting skills through Handwriting Without Tears. In Semester 1, students will work in the My Printing Book. In Semester 2, students will practice handwriting on their own using the supplied lined paper.

Spelling: There are 18 units in K12 Spelling, which begins in the second semester of Grade 1. Each unit contains five lessons. The first lesson of a unit introduces new Spelling words. In the second and third lessons, you and your students work together to practice the spelling words introduced in the first lesson. There is an online review in Lesson 4 and an offline assessment in Lesson 5. Students will master the spelling skills needed to read and write proficiently.

Vocabulary: K12 Vocabulary exposes students to a wide variety of words. Students will learn, review, and practice words online. There are 18 units in K12 Vocabulary. In the first 8 lessons of each unit, students will study 3 sets of related words. Lesson 9 of each unit is a review of all the words. The 10th lesson is always a Unit Checkpoint, testing students on all the words they studied.

Writing Skills: The program includes 18 alternating units of Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics lessons and Composition lessons. In odd-numbered units, students will learn grammar, usage, and mechanics skills that will help them communicate in standard English. The fourth lesson of each unit is an online review of the unit's skills, and the fifth lesson is an offline assessment. In even-numbered composition units, students will also learn techniques for planning, organizing, and creating different kinds of writing. Each unit starts with a journal assignment that will help get students writing and generating ideas to be used in their writing assignments. The program includes rubrics and sample papers to help evaluate students' work.

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1st Grade Writing Activity: Practice Spelling - Learning Liftoff

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Click here for full screen This interactive activity is embedded in our First Grade Language Arts 1 course . In this course, students receive structured lessons on readiness skills through emphasis on phonics, language skills, literature, and handwriting to help develop comprehension, build vocabulary, and promote a lifelong interest in reading.

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This video shows how to edit writing at a first grade level! It can be an essential tool in showing students how to look over their work and accustom them to this at a young age!

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Editing Writing for Kids! |First and Second Grade|

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This worksheet is a fun, engaging activity in which students fill in blanks and demonstrating their writing abilities in regards to things they want!

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Santa Letter Template | Worksheet | Education.com

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Help Santa out by making him a wish list. Have your child fill-in the blanks with this Santa letter template, and send the letter off to the North Pole!

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This game helps learners know how to spell words with short a sounds.

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Roly is hungry ... hungry for words! Your child can practice spelling words that have the short A sound by filling in the missing letter. This reading game helps build an understanding of phonics, as children see parts of words and put them together to form several new words.

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Short A Spelling Cat Food Game | Game | Education.com

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Roly is hungry ... hungry for words! Your child can practice spelling words that have the short A sound by filling in the missing letter. This reading game helps build an understanding of phonics, as children see parts of words and put them together to form several new words.

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This spelling game guides young learners in spelling accuracy! Students are to select letters in order to spell the word they are asked of.

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Build bridges by building words in this silly game that tests your kindergartener's knowledge of using blends in spelling! As your child comes across each broken bridge in Blending Sounds Spelling, they'll need to spell a word using letter blocks. Each word has a colorful illustration to help, and a narrator sounds out each letter as your child spells, emphasizing letter sound relationships.

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Blending Sounds Spelling Game | Game | Education.com

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Kids build blending and spelling skills to help get the gang to school in time.

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This video linked is a short, but informative video on how brainstorming helps develop children's writing abilities.

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How-To Writing For Kids - Procedural Writing - Episode 1: Brainstorming

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Attached is a link to a game on sight words. The game has a fuzzy, unique character who wants to get as muddy as possible! The student is to LISTEN to the word and make the correct choice so that the fuzzy ball gets as muddy as they want to!

This tool can assist in early writing by allowing students to hear words, and by selecting the correct one, they understand how it's supposed to be spelled. For example, a student might not know how to spell do: they might spell it "du" or "doo", but this game let's them see choices and make the one that they feel is correct and SEE how to spell words correctly and will retain the correct spellings when they are asked to write!

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Sight words, or high frequency words, are an important reading building block in kindergarten and first grade. This game asks students to be a sight words hopper by helping Cuz-Cuz jump over mud puddles. Each mud puddle features a sight word, such as "have" and "can," and students must jump over the correct sight word read out by the narrator.

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Jump in the Sight Word Mud Game | Game | Education.com

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Cuz-Cuz needs your help! Guide him through the mud by identifying sight words in this colorful, interactive game with audio support for early readers. Play now!

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This worksheet provides students a word bank full of choices of different nouns and verbs. The students must select a word to complete each sentence. The blank where the student will write their choice, contains a guide that states whether the word will be a verb or a noun. This is an excellent resource for students to familiarize themselves with the difference between verbs and nouns, knowing where to write them in a sentence and HOW to accurately spell the words!

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1st grade writing: What does it look like? 

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1st grade writing: What does it look like? 

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This video is a short, one minute clip that provides educators a sample of what a first grader's essay may look like. This tool can be beneficial to educators and students alike: for educators, they may use this as a guide for what to expect students' writing is at that level and get a feel for the criteria they'll set. For Students, they will see a model of a student their age reading the essay they wrote as well as learn about what are the different parts needed for an essay in first grade!

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What does 1st grade writing look like? - Milestones from GreatSchools

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This tool is an excellent resource to play for children who are in early stages of writing. It illustrates how to write a complete sentence to them in an engaging and interesting way that hooks students via songs and visual models.

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The Sentence Song | English Songs | Scratch Garden

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This is a video of a 1st grade teacher guiding students in writing to a prompt about frogs and how interactive learning leads to student success in early writing.