Grade(s): 1
Pages: 240, Digital Resource CD included.

Activities: 5 activities for each of 180 days

This standards-based resource provides an engaging and purposeful practice page for every day of the school year. Foundational skills and anchor standards for reading are addressed daily through fiction and nonfiction passages, allowing students ample opportunity to interact with text and advance in text complexity. Day 5 of each week provides a writing exercise.

The practice pages follow a consistent format. Providing the questions as a full practice page makes it easy to set a daily goal.

Parents looking for supplemental reading activities can begin this title at any time during the school year. It works just a well for summer skill retention. Purchase the grade your child will be entering and aim for a couple of pages a day. At the end of summer your child will have improved their reading skills.

The activities in 180 Days of Reading are aligned to Common Core Standards.

The Teacher Resource CD contains pdf versions of all the worksheets and assesment analysis resources. Teachers can use the included diagnostic tools to record evidence of student learning, assess student and class progress, and identify students' intervention or enrichment needs.

Reading skills targeted in this book include:

• Comprehending texts independently and proficiently
• Determining central ideas and themes
• Interpreting the meanings and tones of words and phrases
• Assessing the author's purpose and point of view
• Applying phonics and word-analysis skills
• Making logical inferences
• Summarizing key details and ideas
• Responding to literature

Table of Contents

Introduction and Research
How to Use This Book
Standards Correlations
Table of Contents
Daily Practice Pages
Answer Key
References Cited
Contents of the Digital Resource CD

Common Core State Standards Addressed
Days 1-3.
Questions 1-2
Reading Anchor Standard 1: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it.

Question 3
Reading Foundational Skills Standard 3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

Question 4
Reading Anchor Standard 4: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone or

Reading Anchor Standard 6: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

Day 4

Questions 1–3
Reading Anchor Standard 1: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it.

Question 4
Reading Anchor Standard 2: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

Day 5
Writing Anchor Standard 4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Reading Foundational Skills 3b: Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.