Simple Reading Comprehension About Cow (Free PDF)

Teaching young learners to read in English can be both fun and effective when using engaging, simple texts with interactive activities. To support fellow ESL and EFL teachers, I’ve created a comprehensive reading comprehension set built around a simple story about a cow, along with a variety of worksheets designed to improve vocabulary, reading fluency, and comprehension skills.

Sight Words Worksheets

I have designed a bunch of printable sight words worksheets and activities to help kindergarten kids and elementary students build their first English vocabulary and acquire basic reading skills. There are more than 80 printable worksheets, more than 500 flash cards and a small reading comprehension kit in my sight words arsenal based on Dolch words. I’d like to share some of these printables with my fellow EFL and ESL teachers.

English Worksheets and Other Printables for Grade 1

A big part of my students are elementary school kids. That is why I have designed a good number of printable English teaching materials for my 1st grade students. The printables include flashcards, posters, awards, worksheets, games, coloring pages etc. Many of them have already been published in my blog. In this blog post, I’d like to show some of those printables that I use for grade 1 to help my fellow EFL and ESL teachers find my earlier publications and see the bigger picture of what I create for my classes and what I can offer for their classes as well.

I have designed a lot of printable worksheets, charts, flashcards etc for my grade 1 students.

Sight Words Reading Passages and Worksheets: Pre-Primer.

I have already published a blog post about my printable sight words flashcards that I use to teach my pre-school and elementary school students to read and write in English. Today I’d like to share a few reading comprehension passages and worksheets that I have designed to be used along with the cards for my English classes. Since my sight words cards are based on the Dolch word list, I use the same sight words for my reading passages and worksheets. The Dolch’s scale starts with the pre-primer level – a small group of words that kids can learn in kindergarten. So the first sight word reading passages and worksheets I’d like to share are based on this pre-primer vocabulary.

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Here are examples of simple pre-primer vocabulary texts that I read with kids who start learning English.

It is a bird. The bird is big and blue.
It is a bird. The bird is little and red.
Look! Can you see two funny birds?
The birds come here to play. The birds jump and run in the grass.
Can you help me make a home for the birds?

- Where can a little boy play?
- The boy can play here. You can find a big red ball and a yellow toy car for the boy.
- Where can a little girl play?
- The girl can play here. Here is a doll for the girl.
- Look, it is a big box of toys for the boy and the girl!

I see a yellow apple and a red apple.
The red apple is big.
The yellow apple is for me and the red apple is for you.

I did my best to make my reading comprehension worksheets appealing to little children. It helps me excite and expire young English learners and make them want to read more in this language. I hope my fellow EFL and ESL teachers will also find these reading comprehension passages and worksheets useful.

Printable Sight Words Reading Resources: Pre-Primer Level.

700+ Printable English Flashcards: Nouns

I’m happy to present you my new set of English flashcards. It’s a huge collection including more than 700 English nouns. I used pictures that I had found to create English-Spanish flashcards. As I promised I would design bilingual flashcards for a bunch of languages. However I decided to also make English-only flashcards that would serve as a great tool to teach English to kids regardless of their native language.

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700+ hi-res image-based flashcards covering nouns in 16 topics

Just like the above-mentioned English-Spanish flashcards, the English flashcards set includes the most frequently used nouns related to 16 topics:

Animals

Animals vocabulary flashcard featuring a squirrel

Printable Sight Words Flashcards

Reading is a cornerstone skill for learning languages. However, teaching to read in a foreign language is a very complicated task for educators, and especially for those who work with little kids. It may seem like children struggle with reading even in their native language, let alone in English which they study as their second language. But, fortunately, most kids absorb languages very quickly as they frequently do at their age. It is the way their brains function as they start to discover the world around them. So many ESL teachers apply tried and true methods of teaching kids to read used by native language speakers. One of such methods is whole word method based on so-called sight words.

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The kit has more than 550 Dolch sight word cards (including 95 image cards for nouns as well as cards featuring verbs in different forms)

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The method implies memorizing high frequency words (sight words) as a whole by sight. Kids memorize how words look and thus learn to automatically recognize them in texts. It is especially useful for words with non-standard spelling patterns such as “was” or “come”.

List of sight words (Dolch words) introduced in the first grade

One of the most popular lists of sight words was created by Edward William Dolch in 1938. He picked out 220 high frequency words from children’s books of his era. Those words should be easily recognized by kids for a better start to learning to read. They say that Dolch sight words cover from 50% to 75% of all words used in library books, school books and newspapers. It looks like a solid base for kids who learn to read in English as foreign language.

Color Coded Sight Words Flashcards

I tried to use sight words flashcards that I could find and download online. But the problem is that they all looked too dry and plain. Working with them is far from being fun for kids. So I decided to create my own set of printable sight words flashcards with the following benefits:

• Attracting attention due to an unusual shape of cards
• Color coded flashcards to help kids learn word order in English sentences
• Sight word nouns with corresponding image flashcards
• Interactivity and gamification

Sight words flashcards designed for kids of different age groups, ranging from kindergarten to middle school