First Grade Partner Reading Center Activities

  This partner reading resource for first grade includes lesson plans, printable activities for all year long, and kid-friendly directions! This resource provides an organized system for managing your partner reading center. The materials will help you teach independence AND engage your first grade students in meaningful literacy activities like:- Reading or pretend reading with a partner (echo reading, choral reading, etc.)- Playing “Word Detective”- Retelling stories with craft stick puppets - Putting the lines of a nursery rhyme or poem back in order- Rehearsing and putting on simple Readers’ Theatre shows- Playing “I Spy” with letters, sounds, spelling patterns, and parts of speech- Going on a “Text Safari” to find text features, punctuation marks, parts of speech, contractions, or compound words- Using spinners or cubes to ask and answer questions about a book- Reading familiar text and rating each others’ fluencyThe materials are designed so that students read a book or other tex