Grade 1 ELA Weeks 29–30: Student Textbook
Five lessons each week. Read the passage, discuss the skill, practice aloud, and write independently. Revisit difficult words as needed.
Week 29: Poetry: imagery and rhythm
Core reading: Soft rain taps the windowpane. / A robin sings beside the lane. / The garden drinks the gentle rain. / Then sunlight warms the earth again.
Day 141: Understand
Learning task: Answer: Which words rhyme? Underline the words in the reading that helped you answer.
Before you finish: Read your work aloud and check that each sentence makes sense.
Day 142: Vocabulary
Learning task: Choose two interesting words from the passage. Explain each in your own words and use one in a new sentence.
Before you finish: Read your work aloud and check that each sentence makes sense.
Day 143: Read fluently
Learning task: Read the passage aloud twice. Mark one place where punctuation tells you to pause. Retell the passage without looking.
Before you finish: Read your work aloud and check that each sentence makes sense.
Day 144: Write and revise
Learning task: Write four lines with two clear rhyming pairs. Reread and improve one word choice.
Before you finish: Read your work aloud and check that each sentence makes sense.
Day 145: Independent check
Learning task: Without looking at earlier answers, respond to: Which words rhyme? Then write three original connected sentences about the topic.
Before you finish: Read your work aloud and check that each sentence makes sense.
Week 30: Poetry: comparing language
Core reading: The moon looked like a silver plate. The stars were tiny lamps in the sky. A cool breeze brushed the grass as the family walked home.
Day 146: Understand
Learning task: Answer: What is compared to a plate? Underline the words in the reading that helped you answer.
Before you finish: Read your work aloud and check that each sentence makes sense.
Day 147: Vocabulary
Learning task: Choose two interesting words from the passage. Explain each in your own words and use one in a new sentence.
Before you finish: Read your work aloud and check that each sentence makes sense.
Day 148: Read fluently
Learning task: Read the passage aloud twice. Mark one place where punctuation tells you to pause. Retell the passage without looking.
Before you finish: Read your work aloud and check that each sentence makes sense.
Day 149: Write and revise
Learning task: Write a simile using like and describe two senses. Reread and improve one word choice.
Before you finish: Read your work aloud and check that each sentence makes sense.
Day 150: Independent check
Learning task: Without looking at earlier answers, respond to: What is compared to a plate? Then write three original connected sentences about the topic.
Before you finish: Read your work aloud and check that each sentence makes sense.