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📖 1st Grade · ELARF.1.4Unit 1: Short vowels & reading routines

Choosing a just-right book

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🎯 Objective: Students choose books they can read and enjoy.

Lesson outline

  1. Read a page aloud: put up a finger for each word you can’t read.
  2. Teach the five-finger rule and “Do I like it? Do I understand it?”
  3. Book shopping from the class library; students fill their book bags.
  4. Exit: show your book and say why it’s just right.

Lesson 5 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RF.1.4

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words with short vowels
  • Read with a partner and talk about books

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Reading fluency📚 Read-aloud stories📚 All 1st Grade skills⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Short vowels & reading routines”

  1. Short a and short i
  2. Short o and short u
  3. Short e and all short vowels
  4. Reading with a partner
  5. Choosing a just-right book

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