The perfect supplement to your core early reading program!Everyday Literacy: Listening and Speaking, Grade 1 helps you support reading and oral language development in your early reading program with fun, focused daily lessons.The 20 weekly units in grade 1 cover Reading First's Five Essential Components, including:Oral Vocabulary Development:Relating new vocabulary to prior knowledgeIdentifying and sorting common words (colors, shapes foods)Describing people, places, things, locations, and actionsDetermining the purpose for listening (getting information, solving problems, enjoyment)Retelling a spoken message by summarizingListening critically to interpret and evaluateDeveloping auditory memoryTaking turns speaking in a groupComprehension:Making predictionsResponding to open-ended questionsMaking inferences and drawing conclusionsMaking connections using illustrations, prior knowledge, and real-life experiencesIdentifying sequences of eventsIdentifying the beginning, middle, and end of a storyComparing and contrastingDistinguishing between fiction and nonfictionDetermining cause and effectRetelling a storyPhonological Awareness:Repeating auditory sequences of letters, words and patternsIdentifying digraphs -ch, sh, th, and whBlending words phoneme by phonemeManipulating final sounds in a wordDeleting initial sounds in a wordIdentifying medial short and long vowel sounds