1st Grade

Stay on schedule with skill development by helping your first grader understand clocks and calendars. Spectrum® Telling Time for grade 1 is a standards-based, comprehensive workbook that supports success with focused practice in reading clocks...

Ease test-taking stress with a workbook that offers authentic assessment practice and a digital component that appeals to twenty-first century learners. Spectrum® Test Practice prepares kids for math and language arts success by simulating the...

Strong writing skills help children soar! Clear, concise communication benefits kids throughout school and into adulthood. Spectrum® Writing for grade 1 guides blossoming writers through the writing, proofreading, and editing process to create...

Thinking Kids'® Math is a fun and hands-on approach to learning math! Increase your first grader’s critical thinking and problem solving skills with the colorful, interactive activities. Each activity supports early learning standards and...

Build attitudes of respect and caring, reduce problem behaviors, empower students to solve problems, and educate the whole child with this flexible, user-friendly activity guide. The lessons' literature-based connections allow teachers to "build in"...

Jumpstart your students' minds with daily warm-ups that get them thinking mathematically and ready for instruction. Daily Math Stretches offers practice in algebraic thinking, geometry, measurement, and data for grades K-2 to provide an early...

Help students build content area literacy and increase retention and achievement across multiple subject areas through effective interactive notetaking! This grade-range-specific resource provides grades K-2 students...

From jotting notes to taking tests, handwriting plays an essential role in the classroom. Spectrum® Manuscript Handwriting provides the printing practice children need to succeed. Give children an advantage across disciplines by...

Improve understanding of the election process for students in grades K-2 by introducing and exploring the connections between national, state, and local elections. Students will learn to think critically about the election process while using the...

Successfully implement learning centers in early childhood classrooms! This easy-to-use professional resource uses current research to help teachers create, implement, and manage learning centers. Each center has suggestions for ways to differentiate...

This must-have resource provides 16 original poems that focus on consonant blends and digraphs to support phonemic and phonological awareness in grades PreK-2. Each grade-level appropriate poem features a corresponding lesson that includes two...

This must-have resource provides 21 original poems that focus on consonant sounds to support phonemic and phonological awareness in grades PreK-2. Each grade-level appropriate poem features a corresponding lesson that includes two cross-curricular...

This must-have PreK-2 resource features long vowels and supports phonemic and phonological awareness through activities around level-appropriate poetry! Original poems (20) are introduced and feature a corresponding lesson that includes two...

This must-have PreK-2 resource features rimes and supports phonemic and phonological awareness through activities around level-appropriate poetry! Original poems (18) are introduced and feature a corresponding lesson that includes two cross-curricular...

This must-have resource provides 21 original poems that focus on short vowel sounds to support phonemic and phonological awareness in grades PreK-2. Each grade-level appropriate poem features a corresponding lesson that includes two cross-curricular...

Grade: PreK-2 Provide students with purposeful practice and fun activities that focus on detecting, manipulating, and interacting with the sounds of language. Purposeful Play for Early Childhood Phonological Awareness offers 70 lessons that are...

Diagraming Sentences will help students of all ages learn how the parts of speech fit together to make clear and complete sentences. This 48-page language arts book shows visual learners how to diagram sentences to help them understand why some...

Co-authored by Laney Sammons, a leading expert on the Guided Math framework, this essential classroom resource helps teachers successfully plan, organize, implement, and manage Guided Math Workstations. These effective and...

If you happen to be a person with a strong visual memory you remember how words look. Poor spellers, however, can’t recall how a word should look. In How to Teach Any Child to Spell, Gayle Graham offers a simple solution to the problem: Pull...

Get ready to "hit a home run" with strategies and suggestions about how to introduce idioms and incorporate them into your language and writing instruction. They'll "knock your socks off"!Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski's research, the idioms and...

Lay the critical foundation for reading fluency with this engaging resource! Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases offers 20 creative lessons that analyze high frequency practice to gain word recognition, expression, and fluency...

Equip your first grade classroom with texts differentiated for every type of learner. This series equips teachers with reading materials tailored specifically for low-level and English-language learners, and provides texts that engage on-level and...

Reinforce key mathematical concepts in first grade with these fun and engaging skill-based games! Created to align to College and Career Readiness other state standards, this resource is perfect for reinforcing students' mathematical skills. Perfect for...

This essential classroom resource provides educators with a solid foundation in teaching persuasive writing. Grades K-2 students will learn persuasive writing techniques and strategies on how to research topics, form opinions, support their...

Grade: 1-3  Make it a "community effort" in your classroom to build fluency and analytical skills through these engaging primary source documents.While learning about local government, community jobs, and government leaders, students develop fluent...

What better gift to give students than engaging rhymes to read while building literacy skills? This first grade classroom resource will enhance students' mastery of phonological awareness, phonics skills, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and writing...

Help your child master language arts and math with grade appropriate practice that is aligned to state standards. Presented in an effective learning sequence, Spectrum® Grade 1 offers rigorous, grade-specific tasks that will help improve your...

Inspire your curious scientists with interactive lab experiments and self-contained activities to improve critical-thinking skills and conceptual knowledge. Standards-Based Investigations: Science Labs teaches your grades K-2 learners through...

Help students prepare for first grade with this effective summer workbook.  Blast away summer learning loss with 9 weeks of fun activities  Make at-home learning quick and easy with effective daily practice Review the essential reading,...

Experience the magic, excitement, and happiness that surround holidays and cultural celebrations. Geared toward engaging students in grades K-2, The Big Book of Holidays and Cultural Celebrations is filled with hands-on activities, fun facts,...

Build Grade 1 students' comprehension and critical-thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests with high-interest nonfiction articles from TIME For KidsThis easy-to-implement resource includes accompanying document-based questions that focus...

If you happen to be a person with a strong visual memory you remember how words look. Poor spellers, however, can’t recall how a word should look. In How to Teach Any Child to Spell, Gayle Graham offers a simple solution to the problem: Pull...