First grade is an important time for your child— key reading skills are strengthened, new ones are added, and a love for reading is nurtured. You can support your child’s growing reading abilities by making sure they’ve mastered the basics of phonics and helping them to stretch their skills with fun reading goals. This free first grade readiness checklist can also help!
Match letters to sounds:
Understand letter-sound relationships.
Write basic words:
Write words using knowledge of letter sounds.
Decode sight words:
Recognize select words by sight.
Understand complex patterns:
Read and use blends and digraphs.
Read and write nonfiction:
Learn from informational text.
Recognize parts of speech:
Construct simple sentences.
Developed by reading experts, the program builds on the skills from previous lessons, introducing blends, digraphs, long vowels, and more to your first grader.
Playing fun games in the Hooked on Phonics App allows first grade readers to recognize many new words automatically, which builds reading fluency.
First grader readers will find “just right” books that challenge them to decode new sight words and phonics patterns, while including known words to keep reading fun.
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