This video lesson reviews and has students identify nouns and verbs. The accompany handouts provide practice with verbs and nouns and writing sentences containing them.

This resource is a checklist that teachers/parents could use to determine if their grade one student(s) are able to use before, during and after reading strategies independently or with prompting. It includes space for comments.

These worksheets help students explore and practice making plurals by adding an s to the end of many words.

This video lesson reviews "ed" word endings and the three sounds that they make . The accompanying handout has students sort words according to the sound of the "ed".

This video lesson reviews the "ing" ending. The accompanying handout has students form "ing" words and draw pictures of what they drew.

This video lesson explores compound words and gives students the opportunity to interactively find them in a variety of ways.

This video lesson introduces the drop"e" rule when adding "ing" to words. The accompanying handout provides practice with adding "ing" to a word that ends in "e".

This video lesson explores how and why it is helpful to have words in alphabetical order. The accompanying handout has students put the colour words in alphabetical order.

This video lesson models for students how to write a story from a picture prompt by considering what happens before, during and after the picture.

This video lesson offers students the opportunity to identify words rhyming with "my" in a story that is read to them. The instructor then goes through "my" rhyming words.

This video lesson reviews using adjectives to describe nouns, as well the use of precise verbs and sentence endings (phrase) when creating interesting sentences. The accompanying handout has students manipulate sentence parts to make sentences.

This short video reviews when consonants have to be doubled when adding "ing". The accompanying handout reviews the rule about adding a suffix such as –ing, -y, -ed, or –er to a CVC word and provides practice.

This short video lesson reviews what homophones are and gives examples. The accompanying handout has students match words that sound the same but have a different spelling/meaning.

With this assessment checklist, teachers assess student's "Oral Literacy Levels and Behaviours" based on whether they perform listening and speaking characteristic independently or require a prompt. It will help teachers to determine if students are early emergent, emergent, fluent or mature listeners and speakers.

These handouts are a great way to have students self-edit and reflect on their writing.

This graphic organizer helps grade one students plan a story with:
- A title or topic
- Beginning: Make it sound interesting!
- Middle: 3 details!
- Ending: Something for reader to remember!

This handout is a self-assessment tool for students to use to reflect on their story telling.

This video lesson reviews how to determine how many syllables a word has using different methods.

This video lesson reviews the rule of "When two vowels going walking" in a fun and interactive way.

Included in this resource are video lessons that are good models of ways to explore the different word families. The accompanying handouts support and provide activities/practice for each family. Although the lessons often refer to the Cornerstones primary resource, the lessons are valuable for the introduction and use of word families in grade 1 ELA.