1Everyday Literacy: Listening and Speaking, Grade 1 helps you support reading and oral language development in your early reading program with fun, focused daily lessons. The 20 weekly units in grade 1 cover Reading First's Five Essential Components, including: Oral Vocabulary Development: - Relating new vocabulary to prior knowledge - Identifying and sorting common words (colors, shapes foods) - Describing people, places, things, locations, and actions - Determining the purpose for listening (getting information, solving problems, enjoyment) - Retelling a spoken message by summarizing - Listening critically to interpret and evaluate - Developing auditory memory - Taking turns speaking in a group Comprehension: - Making predictions - Responding to open-ended questions - Making inferences and drawing conclusions - Making connections using illustrations, prior knowledge, and real-life experiences - Identifying sequences of events - Identifying the beginning, middle, and end of a story - Comparing and contrasting - Distinguishing between fiction and nonfiction - Determining cause and effect - Retelling a story Phonological Awareness: - Repeating auditory sequences of letters, words and patterns - Identifying digraphs -ch, sh, th, and wh - Blending words phoneme by phoneme - Manipulating final sounds in a word - Deleting initial sounds in a word - Identifying medial short and long vowel sounds