Keep your soon-to-be or leaving 1st (first) graders, ages 6 and 7, practicing their growing reading skills with the best 1st grade books for summer reading.

When entering second grade, students should have built the necessary accuracy and automaticity for sight word reading and correctly spelling 300+ high frequency words that map onto pronunciations.

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most ...