DEI-SEL
Mood Meter Strategies
First Grade Mood Meter
Creating a Family Charter
Literacy
Rising 1st Grade Literacy
This document contains a selection of recommendations and resources, both analog and digital, for supporting literacy development beginning in PreK. It is organized by target skill or category (handwriting, high frequency word practice, book recommendations) and also by grade level. We regularly review and update this document and are always open to your feedback, questions, and recommendations!
Library Resources for Developing Readers
This is a link to resources available digitally. It includes links to our online library (Sora), and as well as a selection of read-along texts (e-books with synced audible narration), ebooks, and early readers available through our library or paywall-free on the internet.
Math
Resources for Students Entering 1st Grade
Spanish
Resources for Students Entering Grade 1-4
Library
Summer Reading Adventure Map
Building Independence
Use of Timers to help with transitions - Time Timer, Sand Timer
Visual Supports for Routines, Schedules and Transitions
- Gross motor games: Red light/Green Light; Simon Says; Freeze Dance
- Verbal memory games: Going on a Picnic; Taboo Jr.; Apples to Apples; Code Names; 5 Second Rule
- Flexible thinking games: Chess, Mastermind, Blokus, Rat a Tat Cat, Jenga, Distraction, Swish, Ticket to Ride, Rush Hour Traffic Jam
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