First Grade Reading Skills Activities
Shaker Lane School
Grade 1
Perry Reed
 

In an effort to help children understand and practice reading skills,  I put together various web sites to help reinforce these skills.  Children can play games and try activities that foster antonyms, synonyms, homophones, contractions, syllables, nouns and verbs, adjectives, abc order, and punctuation.

 
Antonyms

Description:  Antonyms are words that are opposites, i.e hot/cold.  Try some of these matching games and activities.

Antonyms match

Antonyms puzzles

Antonyms trains
 

 
      

 
Synonyms

Description:  Synonyms are words that mean the same thing, i.e. big/large.  Here are some games and puzzles.                   

Synonyms puzzles 

Balloon Match (challenge)


 
 


 
Homophones

Description:  Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently, i.e see/sea.  Try a puzzle and take a quiz.

Homophones puzzles                       

Homophones concentration

Homophones quiz

More homophone matching


 
 


 
Contractions

Description:  An example of a contraction is:  would not becomes...wouldn't.  Have fun playing games and trying the activties.                                                     

Contractions fly by

Contraction treasure chest

 
 


 
Syllables

Description: A syllable is the number of beats in a word.  Cake has 1 syllable.  Happy has 2 syllables.  Try these fun games.

Build a robot
 
 


 
Noun and Verbs

Description:  A noun is a person, place, or thing.  A verb is an action word.  Learn more by trying these games.

Noun/verb sort                                                                                                      

Basketball nouns        
 
 

                                                                                                   
 
Adjectives

Description:  An adjective is a word that describes a noun...i.e. hot, huge, fluffy.

All about adjectives

Adjectives newspaper match
 
 


 
ABC order

Description: Putting words in alphabetical order is an important skill for children to learn.  Here are some activities to try.                                                                                

What goes next?
 
 



 
Punctuation

Description:  We use periods for telling sentences, exclamation marks for exciting sentences, and question marks for questions.  Experiment with different sentences with the following activities.

Punctuation multiple choice

Go for the gold....part 1

Go for the gold...part 2 special names                                                                      

Edit the sentence