USA Sunshine Classics Skills Chart Grade 1 Book High- Vocab/Grammar Phonics Comprehension Themes frequency words Level D I’m Brave of Contractions – fuzzy, buzzy What makes you feel feelings I’m Brave Sometimes it’s the little I’m, I am, don’t, do rhymes, discuss scared? page 8 How things we are scared of. not meaning would you say the word in speech bubble? Why? Is girl still feeling Story by Pauline Cartwright Illustrations by Susan Moxley brave? Come and Play, Sarah with, yes List the words from Blend sounds Note other games you games Come and Play, Sarah School children offer to the story that would to make pl-ay, would invite a new or play with a new girl called ÀWLQWRDJDPHV j-ump blind person to join. Sarah, who is blind. category From the illustrations, how would you describe Story by Karen Anderson Illustrations by Jon Davis Sarah? Who will Win the Race? will, who, Sort the animals into Blend sounds How does Tortoise animal Who Will Win the Race? Guess which animal will too, all fast and slow. Say to make sl-ow, manage to win the traditional win the race. why the words are in f-a-s-t race? Retell the story to story bold in the story. show understanding of central message Story by Ann Wilson Illustrations by Val Biro What Would You Like? what, like, Would – make -ike word Make sentences food What Would You Like? Would you like to eat a no, yes make family (like, Using capital, period, worm, a mouse or peanut sh-ould, bike, hike) question mark butter? c-ould Rhyming with no words – no, Story by Joy Cowley Illustrations by Astrid Matijasevic go, toe, show The Speed Boat went, out Meaning of words in -er, -or, verb to Retell the story in water The Speed Boat See what happens when a bold print – what did noun order. sports speedboat driver forgets to driver need to look row, rower; sail, look out. out for? sailor; dive, diver; swim, Story by Jillian Cutting Illustrations by Jennifer Cooper swimmer Going to the Vet how, her, I’d, I had Verb tenses – Use illustrations to pets Going to the Vet What do you think is the going (contraction) take, took, had identify who is telling best way to take a pet to taken the story on each page. the vet? Story by Jennifer Beck Illustrations by Kako Sato The Gingerbread Men them, What word on page 8 Consonant Retell the steps of baking The Gingerbread Men Children make and eat give, take, tells you they enjoyed digraph /th/ making and eating yummy cookies. put, then the cookies? How two letters make cookies in order of the would you say it? one sound – story. Why? (bold print and the, them, then Story by Judy Ling Illustrations by Mosquito exclamation mark) 1 Book High- Vocab/Grammar Phonics Comprehension Themes frequency words Who is the Tallest? of, all Meaning of question -er, -est, In groups of three, act measurement Who is the Tallest? The animals measure word who? comparisons, out who is tall, taller, themselves to see who is tall, taller, tallest the tallest. tallest Story by Ann Wilson Illustrations by Astrid Matijasevic I Like Worms like, good, Adjectives – Rhyming words Insert punctuation in a food/ I Like Worms The hen enjoys a diet of all color words – pies/fries; jug/ list – commas page 4 animals sorts of worms. mug; tea/me Read the list with pauses and without to hear the difference in Story by Joy Cowley Illustrations by Astrid Matijasevic meaning Bread of, some Understand question Make words Make sentences using being Bread The twins share bread on word where? Notice with blend br- end punctuation . ! ? helpful the way home. rhyme with here, br-ead, br-own, Find clues in pictures there br-eak, br-other of where bread is going next. Story by Joy Cowley Illustrations by Val Biro Rosie, the Nosy Goat Rosie, our, ate, Opposites – Ending –y Possessive apostrophe’ animals the Nosy Goat Rosie tries to eat eat go away, come here (long e) What did Rosie eat of everything, even a bucket! Rosie, nosy, Mom’s and Dad’s? laundry Story by Doreen Douglas Illustrations by Ulrike Haseloff The Bulldozer again Opposites, – Match singular Retell the order of machinery The Bulldozer See how a bulldozer moves on, off; up, down and plural nouns the story showing the logs to verbs, logs go, process needed for a bulldozer goes bulldozer to move logs. Story by Brian and Jillian Cutting Illustrations by Kelvin Hawley In the Snow (NF) again, Read the words on Blend sl-ed, Identify the main seasons In the Snow Children have fun in the walk page 8 using bold sl-ide, sl-ow; topic and retell the key snow on sleds. print and ! Compare sn-ow, sn-ap, details of the text. to The Speedboat sn-ug Text by Jillian Cutting Tools Can Help (NF) with, out, Understand use of Break ham/mer, What kind of text science Tools Can Help You will be surprised at will, are, can in title and as a scis/sors, screw/ is this? How do you the tools we use often. our question word in text dri/ver into know? How do the syllables pictures on page 8 help NB each syllable you understand the Text by John Sheridan has a vowel sentence? Dinosaur Times (NF) were, live Past tense verb – Make words Use illustrations history Dinosaur Times See how animals today are live, lived ending with and details in text to different to long ago –and – l-and, describe key ideas – b-and, s-and dinosaur times vs today Text by Brian and Jillian Cutting Illustrations by Geoffrey Cox My Black Cat (NF) my, likes, Singular noun with Letter blend / Retell all the things the pets My Black Cat A girl looks after her cat. to, eat, matching verb form – bl/ black, blue, cat likes to do. black, cat/likes blink Brainstorm important play, with, cat/loves Word family things to know when in, on, me, –ack back, sack, looking after a pet. Text by Jillian Cutting the tack 2 Book High- Vocab/Grammar Phonics Comprehension Themes frequency words Trucks Trucks (NF) some, do, Meaning of carry; Make words Distinguish shades of heavy There are many different what logging trucks carry with blend tr- intensity in adjectives transport types of trucks logs; garbage trucks tr-uck, tr-am, of size, big, huge, vehicles carry garbage tr-ain, tr-ip enormous Text by Jillian Cutting Moving (NF) put, our, movers, moving Make words Identify the main family Moving A family moves house new ending in -ing topic and retell the key details of the text. Text by Jillian Cutting Illustrations by Bryan Pollard Level E Goldilocks open, Questions – Contractions – Retell and act out the fairy tales Goldilocks $OLWWOHJLUOVÀQGVDKRXVH were, just, Who’s? who’s/who has; story in order. Discuss with an open door. then, of Opposites – she’s/she is; whether Goldilocks did big/little; soft/hard; it’s/it is the right thing. hot/cold Retold by Ruth Corrin Illustrations by Jennifer Lautusi The Hare and the let, by, win, won, winning Word ending Retell the story in order fables The Hare and the Tortoise Tortoise just, good -ing – WRFRQÀUPZK\DVORZ Who would you expect to winning, tortoise won the race. win the race? plodding, running Illustrations by Rita Parkinson Discuss meaning of each word Hello, Hello, Hello some, Meaning of Hello – Digraph sh-, Read the speech greetings Hello, Hello, Hello How many ways can you how, when why does hello have shake, (Rhymes bubbles on each page. say Hello? speech marks around with make) she, Why are there none on it on some pages and shoe page 4-5? What other not on others? greetings do you know? Story by Jan McPherson Illustrations by Kiki Ketchum-Neumann y Pony Minnie My Pony M has, an, Number words Final -e long Shaped, underlined, ponies Minnie A girl describes her pony. black, Adjectives/nouns vowel – bold text helps meaning white (soft/hay) pon-y, Minn-ie Story by Elizabeth Taylor Illustrations by Rachel Conner Don’t You Laugh at Me! stop, him, Contractions – gh sounds like Retell the story in humor Don’t You Laugh at Me! Each animal can’t stop her can’t /cannot; don’t /f/ – order and discuss the laughing, so the next /do not; I’ll /I will laugh, laughing humorous ending. animal eats it. Discuss the use of contractions Story by Joy Cowley Illustrations by Rodney McRae Going to Lucy’s House over, Contraction don’t – Possessive Retell the story imagination Going to Lucy’s House Hannah imagines all the walk, just, do not opposite of do apostrophe – naming all the things ways she could get to has, of Lucy’s in Hannah’s thought Lucy’s house. Capital letters bubbles. for names – Story by Jane Buxton Illustrations by Carla Shale Hannah, Lucy, Mom 3 Book High- Vocab/Grammar Phonics Comprehension Themes frequency words Me and My Dog has, over, Prepositions – Letter blend Bold type and shaped movement Me and My Dog A girl describes the things just, me, opposites (under/ cl-climb, clown, words for emphasis, she can do with her dog. of over; into/out) clock act out Story by Pauline Cartwright Illustrations by Pucci Violi The Wind Blows Strong too Match the verb Make words Onomatopoeia – sound The Wind Blows Strong A girl listens to the noises make/s with the with letter blend listen to and say the words made by a strong wind.