Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your First Grader Needs to Know What will your child be expected to learn in the first grade? How can you help him or her at home? How can teachers foster active, successful learning in the classroom? This book answers these all-important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that hundreds of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American first graders. Featuring a new Introduction, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering discussion, this first-grade volume of the acclaimed Core Knowledge Series presents the sort of knowledge and skills that should be at the core of a challenging first-grade education. Inside you’ll discover • Favorite poems—old and new, such as “The Owl and the Pussycat,” “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,” and “Thirty Days Hath September” • Beloved stories—from many times and lands, including a selection of Aesop’s fables, “Hansel and Gretel,” “All Stories Are Anansi’s,” “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” and more • Familiar sayings and phrases—such as “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” and “Practice makes perfect” • World and American history and geography—take a trip down the Nile with King Tut and learn about the early days of our country, including the story of Jamestown, the Pilgrims, and the American Revolution • Visual arts—fun activities plus reproductions of masterworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Georgia O’Keeffe, and others • Music—engaging introductions to great composers and music, including classical music, opera, and jazz, as well as a selection of favorite children’s songs • Math—a variety of activities to help your child learn to count, add and subtract, solve problems, recognize geometrical shapes and patterns, and learn about telling time • Science—interesting discussions of living things and their habitats, the human body, the states of matter, electricity, our solar system, and what’s inside the earth, plus stories of famous scientists such as Thomas Edison and Louis Pasteur

First Grade Fundamentals will delight young learners with activities on consonants and vowels, vocabulary, addition and subtraction, fractions, phonics, reading comprehension, time and money, and more. Filled with colorful pages, easy-to-follow directions, and grade-appropriate activities, the Fundamentals series introduces and reinforces introductory concepts in math and language arts. --The series covers all of the basics for success in PreK to Grade 2 and is perfect for year-round learning. The fun, challenging activities will supplement what children are learning in school, reinforcing their understanding of the subject matter and enhancing school performance. Each page features directions that teach and guide children through key areas of learning.

A comprehensive resource for grammar, mechanics, usage, and vocabulary practice.

You're teaching first grade this year. What do you need to know? Margaret Berry Wilson gives you practical information about daily routines, furniture, and much more. She starts with a concise review of first graders' common developmental characteristics and then shows how to adjust your classroom and your teaching to fit these common characteristics. The result: Students can learn, and you can teach, with minimum frustration and maximum ease and joy. In a warm, conversational style punctuated with anecdotes and examples from her own classrooms, Margaret shares practical know-how on topics like this: Arranging a circle, desks, and tables Choosing and storing supplies Scheduling a child-centered day and teaching daily routines Planning special projects and field trips that maximize learning and build community Understanding the special concerns of first graders' parents and finding the best ways to communicate

Every lean practitioner occasionally wishes for a simple, fun, and quick-read introduction to lean thinking to give acquaintances, associates, and family members -- even to our kids. If lean thinking often entails unlearning a plethora of bad habits, wouldn't it better if we learned better thinking -- and habits -- from the beginning? Everything I Know About Lean I Learned in First Grade is just that sort of book. It brings lean back to its original simplicity by showing how lean is alive in a first grade classroom. The book connects common lean tools to the broader lean journey, shows how to identify and eliminate waste, and aids the reader in seeing lean for what it truly is: a way to create a learning and problem- solving culture. Written to educate the entire organization on the fundamentals of lean thinking, this is the perfect source to engage all team members at all levels of an organization. Originally self-published in 2008, LEI is proud to re-issue this book and make it available to the broader lean community.

Golden Minds: Grade 1 Language Arts For Liberian Schools, Fundamentals First Edition is a book every Liberian first grade student and teacher must use. This book is arranged in three distinctive sections-The Fundamentals, Grammar and Structure, and Hands-On Writing Workshop. The book opens with an introductory chapter that provides an overview using familiar objects to correlate with letters of the Alphabets. Each chapter that follows discusses a key component of the English Language including but not limited to, the use of grammar and structure, phonics, reading comprehension and analysis. In addition, the book includes a section in poetry, writing and punctuation designed to develop the students' overall Language Arts skills. This book was written to meet and exceed the national curriculum standard for Grade One English Instructions of the Ministry of Education, of the Republic of Liberia. Golden Minds: Grade 1 Language Arts For Liberian Schools, Fundamentals First Edition is structured as follows: Concepts and Analysis-each chapter introduces key components followed by a detailed explanation. The Concepts and Analysis approach enables the student to think creatively as they relate the key ideas from the book to everyday situations through guided discussions. Teachers will find this method easy when assisting students to decipher important points, which will help the students, build their analytical skills. Hands-On Exercises-each section has End-Of-Section, or follow-up, exercise that reinforces key points from the chapter. The end of chapter review assessment is comprised of cumulative questions from the various sections found within a given chapter. These exercises enable students to investigate the material while reviewing the sectional contents within the chapter. Writer's Workshop-allows the student to become imaginative by engaging them in a variety of creative writing activities, such as brainstorming of ideas, vocabulary development, deciphering of root word, prefix/ suffix and sentence construction. With a unique color-coded pagination, Golden Minds: Grade 1 Language Arts For Liberian Schools, Fundamentals First Edition, is geared towards the specific needs of 1st grade students. The simple and attractive layout will definitely stimulate the student minds and peak their curiosity as they navigate through each chapter. This book is a complete Language Arts system which doubles as a textbook and workbook for the student.

The invaluable grade-by-grade guide (kindergarten—sixth) is designed to help parents and teachers select some of the best books for children. Books to Build On recommends: • for kindergartners, lively collections of poetry and stories, such as The Children’s Aesop, and imaginative alphabet books such as Bill Martin, Jr.’s Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Lucy Micklewait’s I Spy: An Alphabet in Art • for first graders, fine books on the fine arts, such as Ann Hayes’s Meet the Orchestra, the hands-on guide My First Music Book, and the thought-provoking Come Look with Me series of art books for children • for second graders, books that open doors to world cultures and history, such as Leonard Everett Fisher’s The Great Wall of China and Marcia Willaims’s humorous Greek Myths for Young Children • for third graders, books that bring to life the wonders of ancient Rome, such as Living in Ancient Rome, and fascinating books about astronomy, such as Seymour Simon’s Our Solar System • for fourth graders, engaging books on history, including Jean Fritz’s Shh! We're Writing the Constitution, and many books on Africa, including the stunningly illustrated story of Sundiata: Lion King of Mali • for fifth graders, a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream that retains much of the original language but condenses the play for reading or performance by young students, and Michael McCurdy’s Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass • for sixth graders, an eloquent retelling of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and the well-written American history series, A History of US . . . and many, many more!

Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 32 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts and incorporate a variety of reading comprehension activities.

Filled with fun colorful pages, easy-to-follow directions, and grade-appropriate activities, the Fundamentals series introduces and reinforces fundamental concepts in math, reading, and language arts. This first-grade workbook features activities on consonants and vowels, vocabulary, addition and subtraction, fraction, phonics, reading comprehension, time and money, and much more.

"Engaging nonfiction activities align with the common core state standards."--Cover.