Journeys 1st Grade Reading and Language Arts Weekly Stories and Skills

Comprehension Vocabulary
Weekly Story Phonics Skills Grammar Skills
Skill Strategy
Classify and
Week 1: What is a Pal? Short a Main Idea Nouns (People and Animals)
Categorize
Week 2: The Storm Short i Characters Nouns (Places and Things) Context Clues
Week 3: Curious George at Multiple Meaning
Short o Sequence of Events Action Verbs
School Words
Week 4: Lucia’s Text and Graphic
Short e Adjectives (Size and Shape) ABC order
Neighborhood Features
Week 5: Gus Takes the Train Short u, qu Story Structure Adjectives (Colors and Numbers) Antonyms
Classify and
Week 6: Jack and the Wolf Short a, ck Characters Complete Sentences
Categorize
Week 7: How Animals Sentence Parts (Subject and
Short i and r blends Main Idea and Details Glossary
Communicate Predicate)
Classify and
Week 8: A Musical Day Short o and l blends Sequence of Events Types of Sentences: Statements
Categorize
Text and Graphic
Week 9: Dr. Seuss Short e and s blends Singular and Plural Nouns Antonyms
Features
Short u and endings mp, nt, st, Prepositions and Prepositional
Week 10: A Cupcake Party Story Structure Synonyms
nd Phrases
Proper Nouns and Endings s, es, ed, Classify and
Week 11: Sea Animals th and long a spelled ay Author’s Purpose
and ing Categorize
Week 12: How Leopard Got
ch, tch Sequence of Events Proper Nouns and Possessive ‘s Homophones
His Spots
Subject and Verbs and Contractions Words ending in
Week 13: Seasons sh, wh, ph and long o-spelled ow Cause and Effect
‘s and n’t s, ed and ing
Classify and
Week 14: The Big Race Long a and soft c, soft g, dge Conclusions Verbs and Time
Organize
Long i and silent letters: kn, wr, Suffixes -er and
Week 15: Animal Groups Compare and Contrast The Verb Be
gn, mb -est
Week 16: Let’s Go to the • Long o (o_e) Suffixes -y and -
Main Idea and Details Types of Sentences: Questions
Moon! • long u (u_e) ful
Week 17: The Big Trip Long e: e_e, ee, ea Compare and Contrast Kinds of Sentences Classification
Week 18: Where Does Food • ai and ay Author’s Purpose Proper Nouns (Names of Months, Multiple Meaning
 Come From? • a_e review Days and Holidays) and Contractions Words
‘ll and ‘d
Contractions ‘ve and ‘re and Future
Week 19: Tomas Rivera oa and ow Conclusions Synonyms
Tense
Week 20: Little Rabbit’s • Compound words Prepositions and Prepositional
Cause and Effect Compound Words
Tale • short e:ea Phrases
Week 21: “The Tree” from
ar, or, and ore Story Structure Subject Pronouns Prefix -re
Poppleton Forever
Using a
Week 22: Amazing Animals er, ir, ur Conclusions Pronoun I
Dictionary
• Vowel digraph-oo Classify and
Week 23: Whistle for Willie Cause and Effect Possessive Pronouns
• Syllable pattern of CVC Categorize
Multiple Meaning
Week 24: A Butterfly Grows oo, ou, ew, ue, u and u_e Sequence of Events Pronouns and Verbs
Words
Week 25: The New Friend oi and oy Characters Contractions Synonyms
• Long e-y and ie Types of Sentences: Exclamations
Week 26: The Dot Compare and Contrast Idioms
• ou and ow and -ed and -ing endings
• au and aw Text and Graphic Kinds of Sentences and Inflections Classify and
Week 27: What Can You Do?
• Syllable le Features er and est (change y to i) Categorize
Adjectives (Taste, Smell, Sound,
Week 28: “The Kite” from
Long i-igh, y and ie Story Structure and Texture) and Inflections ed, Homographs
Days with Frog and Toad
ing, er, est, and es
Week 29: “A Boat
Disappears” from Inspector Long vowels Cause and Effect Adverbs and Suffixes ful, ly, and y Prefix un
Hopper
• Syllables with a CV
Week 30-Winners Never Adjectives that Compare and
pattern Characters Suffix ly
Quit! Prefixes un- and re-
• Prefixes un and re