First Grade Reading Skills

Here is a list of reading skills your child should aquire in first grade. Find out more about first grade reading skills.

Your child can read from left to right and top to bottom of a page
Your child can match spoken words with written words
Your child can identify letters, words and sentences
Your child can use phonic rules to "sound out " words
Your child can use pictures clues and context to help understand a astory
Your child rereads and makes corrections when what he or she reads does not make sense
Your child can easily read familiar stories aloud
Your child can make predictions about what will happen next in a story
Your child can ask and answer questions about a story he or she just read
Your child can retell stories
Your child can identify the main idea in a story
Your child can organize the information froma story in a chart or diagram.
Your child can read many different types of text such as stories, poems, plays, newspapers and charts.
Your child can read for an extended period of time
Your child can group similar ideas together
Your child can blend sounds to make words
Your child can read similar words by exchanging letters / sounds (i.e. change cat to bat)
Your child can alphabetize a list of words by their first letter