Take It to Your Seat Common Core Language Grade 1

First-grade students will master standards-based language and vocabulary skills through engaging hands-on center activities. Each of the 13 centers focuses on one skill aligned in a format that is accessible and motivating for all types of learners.

These portable language centers help teachers to:

• support kinesthetic and visual learners
• provide differentiated practice of language and vocabulary skills
• offer a quality center activity
• review or reinforce skills
• informally assess a student’s understanding of concepts

The 13 centers cover the following Conventions of Standard English and Vocabulary Acquisition and Use skills:

• Using nouns to form sentences
• Using the correct verb form to complete a sentence
• Using pronouns to take the place of nouns
• Completing sentences using the correct verb tense
• Using adjectives to describe nouns in sentences
• Using conjunctions to connect words or ideas in sentences
• Matching sentences to picture prompts
• Beginning days of the week, months, and names with a capital letter
• Using correct end punctuation for sentences
• Using context clues to determine the meaning of a word
• Using words with affixes to complete sentences
• Identifying root words which are embedded with inflectional endings
• Matching similar words to complete sentences with new shades of meaning

Each easy-to-assemble center provides a hands-on activity with a written practice activity, as well as:

• correlations and targeted skill
• full-color center mats and task cards
• an overview with lesson objectives
• a student direction page that explains the center activity
• a center checklist to record each student’s progress

Binding removed and pages and task cards put in protectors so pages can be easily used.