First Grade Ideas Sharing

Here's a look at your entire first grade year, theme by theme, concept by concept:
1st Grade Haughton Mifflin Year at a Glance
Here's a look at the way Houghton Mifflin is taught throughout a week:
1st Grade Haughton Mifflin Week at a Glance
What genre are you working on this week? This table lists all the reading genres for each main anthology selection as well as the Big Book and Teacher Read Aloud stories. The Content Links are also listed for each week.
First Grade Reading Genres
First grade has a cute little poem for teaching handwriting. This poster adds pictures to the rhyme to help remind students what they should be doing as they write.
Handwriting Poster

First Grade Morning Messages in large print. Teachers have made overhead transparencies of these pages rather than write them on chart paper or the white boards. Just think of the teaching possibilities that could occur with a couple of colored Vis-a-vis pens!
First Grade Focus Wall Themes:
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Theme 5
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Theme 7
Theme 8
Theme 9
Theme 10

First Grade Focus Wall Themes In Spanish:
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Theme 10

Daily Language Practice sentences on lined paper. Teachers are using these pages to combine the DLP lessons with editing, as well as handwriting practice. The teacher and the students use the pre-typed DLP sentences to first identify the grammar and spelling errors. During a direct instruction lesson, both the teacher and the students mark the errors in the sentences with the appropriate editing marks.
Daily Language Practice sentences on lined paper:
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Theme 5
Theme 6
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Theme 10

First Grade Morning Messages:
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Theme 5
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Theme 7
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Theme 10

Click on the links below to access the Houghton Mifflin high frequency words printed in "cut apart" boxes in large print. These could be used as flashcards or displayed on focus walls.
First Grade High Frequency Words
First Grade High Frequency Words by Theme
Check out this Proofreading Marks poster. It features the proofreading marks taught in first and second grade. Make individual copies for your students or enlarge it for a class poster.
Proofreading Marks Poster
Word Pairs: Short vowel words changed to long vowel words
A list that features verbs whose spelling changes when -ing is added (move - moving, write - writing, etc).
Word Pairs: Verbs changed to verb + -ing

The links below will give you an 8 1/2 by 11 "kid friendly" writing checklist for each of the genres featured
Theme 5 Personal Narrative
Theme 6: Description
Theme 7: Story
Theme 8: Research Report
Theme 9: Friendly Letter
Theme 10: Instructions