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Common Core Standards Lesson Plans for First Grade

Using Common Core Standards lesson plans with your first graders can be a lot of fun! First check out the standards on the Common Core website. Then try these lesson plans! We also have links to other helpful first grade resources on our site.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1b (Common, proper and possessive nouns)

Title: What’s Yours? What’s Mine?

To introduce the idea of possessive nouns and how to spell them, try this fun activity.

Bring a box of interesting items to school. Choose things that aren’t normally found in your classroom, such as a toy horn, a whistle, and an old telephone.

Ask a student to select an object from the box. Write this statement on the board: This is Jana’s horn.

Say, “Is this my horn?” Prompt students to reply, “No, this is Jana’s horn.”

Ask, “Is this Tommy’s horn?” to which students should reply, “No, this is Jana’s horn.”

Refer back to the sentence you wrote on the board. Point out the apostrophe and s.

Explain they are used to tell who has, or possesses, the horn.

Then erase the apostrophe. Lead students to discover that this doesn’t make any sense. There are not two or three girls named Jana. There is only one!

To continue the exercise, divide the class into groups of 3-4 students. Instruct each person to select something from your box or from another location in the classroom to take to the small group. Give each group a small white-erase board.

Ask students to sit on the floor in groups, holding their items. The first person makes a statement about each of the other students in the group that uses a possessive noun.

Examples:

That is Edythe’s whistle.

There is John’s telephone.

I see Maddie’s elephant.

Next, ask each person to write his own first name on the board. Then each student adds the ‘s to the end of one other person’s name.

If time allows, students can switch objects and go through the exercise again.

More Common Core Standards Lesson Plans and Activities

Here are more resources to help you with some of the First Grade Common Core Standards Lesson Plans:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.2d

All About Me – Customized fun with words first graders should know. Our literacy worksheets combine spelling, reading, writing, and drawing in a really fun way! Early learners will read a few simple words, choose one to use in a sentence, draw a picture, and then complete the spelling of three words. Best of all, the child tells about himself as he completes each sentence. That's a sure way to keep kids engaged and on task!

Word Family Worksheets – More customizable reproducibles. Using word families is a fun way for 1st graders to learn to spell, read and write. So we've created these special worksheets to make it easy for you to use word families, whether you're a classroom teacher, homeschool teacher or a parent who wants extra activities to do at home.

Word Scrambles A fun way to practice many familiar words! Use these first grade language arts worksheets for vocabulary development, spelling practice and with a FUN theme! First graders need a wide variety of ways to learn language. The worksheets found on this page engage student's reading, writing and spelling skills for well-rounded language arts practice.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.2e

Picture Perfect – Here's one of our favorite free phonics games. It provides a fun way for your early learners to practice long vowel sounds and spelling, if you like. A second game with short vowel sounds is also available.

Roll It! –In this activity, you (or your students) can make many different rolls, starting with empty toilet paper rolls. With each roll, your child can spell many words.

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Fun Spelling Worksheets for Grades 1 and 2 – 50 reproducibles to build on LOTS of important spelling skills! You won't find these worksheets on this website. They're for our eBook customers only, at a very affordable price! See sample pages and purchase options today.

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