LLATL THE BLUE BOOK 1st Grade Complete Program-Common Sense Press, LBlueBox3

Learning Language Arts Through Literature (LLATL) Blue Book Reading Program, for first grade skills, is the perfect reading program for beginning readers. The updated third edition is even easier to use with clearer instructions and a colorized companion Student Booklet. Lessons include: phonics instruction using the "Successful Reading for Beginners" series. Your student begins reading stories right away!

Our first grade complete reading program includes a Teacher Book, a Student Activity Book, 28 readers, and a materials packet, all packaged in a convenient, attractive full-color box.

• 36 weekly lessons divided into easy-to-use daily plans. Lessons require little or NO preparation! Read-aloud stories and "real books" provide a basis for language arts skills: phonics, reading, spelling, grammar, and higher order thinking skills, even handwriting included!
• The "real book" read a louds ARE NOT INCLUDED, but are listed below
• Who Took the Farmer's Hat?. Nodset, Joan L. HarperCollins.
• Goodnight Moon. Brown, Margaret Wise. HarperCollins.
• The Story of Ferdinand. Leaf, Munro. Puffin-Penguin Group.
• Caps for Sale. Slobodkina, Esphyr. HarperCollins.
• The Snowy Day. Keats, Ezra Jack. 1962. Puffin-Penguin.
• Bedtime for Frances. Hoban, Russell. Harper Festival.
• The Little House. Burton, Virginia Lee. The Little House.
• Old Hat New Hat. Berenstain, Stan and Jan. Random House.
• Make Way for Ducklings. McCloskey, Robert. Puffin-Penguin.
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter, Beatrix. Penguin Group.
• Blueberries for Sal. McCloskey, Robert. Puffin Books-Penguin.
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. Burton, Virginia Lee. Houghton Mifflin.
• The Runaway Bunny. Brown, Margaret Wise. HarperCollins.

• A systematic phonics approach includes: short and long vowels, consonant blends, word families, and sight words.
• Handwriting instruction teaches upper and lower case letters, numbers, and punctuation! Illustrated practice sheets encourage your student to do his best.

• Games, word-wheels, flip books, and MORE hands-on projects and activities are effective for ALL types of learners.
• Assessments enable teachers to evaluate progress. Essential to the program, consumable Student Activity Books may be purchased separately.

Phonics / Spelling 
auditory discrimination - beginning sounds - blends - consonant sounds - decoding new words - ending sounds - long vowel sounds - short vowel sounds - sight words - silent e - vowel pairs - word families
Reading 
character development - context clues - compound words - comprehension - describing characters - dialogue - drawing conclusions - following directions - inferences - left to right progression - maps - moral of a story - oral reading - plot - poetry - predicting outcome - reading aloud - recalling detail - retelling story - rhyme - setting - types of stories
Grammar 
adjectives - alphabet - alphabetical order - antonyms - apostrophes - capitalization - exclamation marks - homonyms - nouns - periods - plurals - possessive nouns - proper nouns - punctuation - synonyms - verbs
Composition 
composing sentences - composing paragraphs - composing stories - letter writing - narration - narration based on a picture - writing sentences
Research and Study Skills 
dictionary - encyclopedia - library - map skills - parts of a book: title page, table of contents, author, illustrator, publisher - reference skills - research - thesaurus - verifying information
Higher Order Thinking Skills 
alphabetical order - categorizing - compare and contrast - context clues - describing - details - drawing conclusions - evaluation of a story - fact and opinion - following directions - grouping - inferences - interpreting illustrations - making a list - matching - memorization - ordinal sequencing - patterns - personal application - predicting outcome - real and make-believe - story recall - sequencing
Creative Expression 
charades - choral reading - coloring - drama - drawing - illustrating sentences - illustrating stories - making a book - memory game - narrating from a picture - puppets - telling a story
Penmanship 
drawing shapes - lower case letters manuscript - upper case letters manuscript - punctuation - numbers - sentences