1st Grade Short Stories Games

Use: Copy the pages in this resource onto card stock & cut apart.

Players: 2-6

Directions: Lay all cards upside down on a table. Players will take turns flipping over two cards and seeing if they match. If the cards match the player gets to keep those cards and it is the next player's turn. If the cards do not match the player flips the cards back over and it is the next player's turn.

Additional Support: Send this game home for a fun way to practice these vocabulary words at home!

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Stories: “Max the Pet Show Star”, “The Best Job for Scooter”, “Daisy Divine, Dancing Dog”

Use: Copy the pages in this resource onto card stock & cut apart.

Players: 2-6

Directions: Lay all cards upside down on a table. Players will take turns flipping over two cards and seeing if they match. If the cards match the player gets to keep those cards and it is the next player's turn. If the cards do not match the player flips the cards back over and it is the next player's turn.

Additional Support: Send this game home for a fun way to practice these vocabulary words at home!

Use: Copy the pages in this resource onto card stock & cut apart.

Players: 2-6

Directions: Lay all cards upside down on a table. Players will take turns flipping over two cards and seeing if they match. If the cards match the player gets to keep those cards and it is the next player's turn. If the cards do not match the player flips the cards back over and it is the next player's turn.

Additional Support: Send this game home for a fun way to practice these vocabulary words at home!

Thanks for stopping by please rate and leave a comment!

Dear Christmas Detectives, Santa needs your help! This 1st-grade mystery reading passage with comprehension questions will have students cracking codes and solving the mystery of where Santa's missing sleigh bells are, and who took them - all before it's too late and Christmas is ruined for everyone!

Many reading comprehension activities are all about reading a story and then reflecting on it. But this 8-page NO-PREP story allows first-graders to be a part of the story through immersive storytelling. Students work their way through the story, stopping along the way to reinforce what they've read while helping the characters in the story solve mysteries along the way.

Cracking the code on these skills:

~CVC phonics

~additional and subtraction practice

~spelling

~decoding words and sentences

~language translating

Engage in these activities:

~coloring

~decoding ciphers (image, morse code, and numbers)

~unscrambling words and letters

~deciphering and identifying footprints

~maze

~logic puzzle

~find the hidden pictures

~number riddles

~Christmas trivia

Students will beg you for more of these Solve the Mystery Games! True reading comprehension happens when students feel immersed and engaged in the story, no matter how long or short it is. Help save Christmas today!

Love,

Teacher Bethanie