Grade 1 Vocabulary, Morphology & Word Study: Word Meaning
8 printable 1st Grade vocabulary & word study worksheets on Word Meaning. The first three are free to download; All Access opens all 8.
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 1, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. See every program →
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Teaching Word Meaning
What it is
Word meaning work asks a child to say what a word means and to choose the right word for a sentence, not simply to read it. A child can decode harvest perfectly and still not know what it is, and that gap is what these pages are for.
When a child is ready
Start as soon as the child reads or listens to a sentence and can answer a question about what it said.
If they struggle
Give the meaning in words the child already has, then a picture, then the word used in two sentences about the child's own day. Plan to meet the word again later in the week in speech and not only on paper; one worksheet is one meeting with a word.
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