Grade 1
Sample weeks, a Scope and Sequence, a CCSS correlation, and several helpful documents are available to download and print at the end of this landing page.
"We LOVE our new DLI! The pace is thoughtful and rigorous for our first graders. The instruction allows for gradual release with major impact. We haven’t seen anything better to help with language instruction.”
1st grade team, Woodglen Elementary
With more rigor throughout, the new 2018 Grade 1 DLI edition is a must-have resource!
Features of the 2018 Grade 1 edition
New skills strengthen the alignment to the CCSS:
*exclamations
*commas for single words in a series
*matching simple nouns and verbs in sentences
Enhanced skills offer more depth and rigor to these areas:
*questions are introduced eight weeks earlier to match your students’ use of questions in their writing and to offer more
variety in student items
*more rigorous treatment for recognizing nouns and verbs and more sustained emphasis
*more rigorous treatment of past tense verbs including identification of context clues
In response to the advice of our first grade experts:
*They said: ”The first of the year is spot on, but the second half should be more rigorous and have longer sentences.”
The 2018 edition features longer sentences at mid-year. These sentences serve as models for the kind of writing you are encouraging at this point in the year. The format shifts to a smaller font and two sets of narrower lines below.
*They asked: “Could you increase the pacing on the color and number words? It helps our students if we introduce both the color and number words by mid-year.”
The 2018 edition introduces one color word AND one number word each week and wraps that instruction up by week 16, ten weeks earlier.
*They said: “We like that fact that you feature a family in the beginning of the book, and it limits the names in student items, but the family lacks diversity; so many of our students’ families are non-traditional.
The 2018 edition features the Sotos, a family with mixed ethnicity, an adopted Chinese daughter, and a live-in grandparent.
*They said: “You introduce capitalizing and punctuating dates, but the dates used for student items in the current edition are “out-dated.”
The 2018 edition features a different format for dates allowing students to customize most items to the current year. (check it out on the Snapshot Sample)
*They said: “Our students need more exposure to antonyms and synonyms. Is there any way to include them?
The 2018 edition features weeks with both antonyms and synonyms in the Following Directions Box starting mid-year.
What else is new?
*Between Weeks 12 and 15, the 2018 edition features a student-friendly introduction to the use of three proofreading marks. Using them to mark missing capitals and end marks beginning at Week 12 and commas beginning at Week 15 on the DLI student items, provides a gentle way to develop this as a practice that students can transfer to editing their own writing. Our Grade 1 pilot teachers have given this a “green light,” and they say that this has the potential to help their students to better apply what they have learned since they often run out of steam on the editing step. (Download the Week 12 sample to view their introduction.)
*New topics treated in the Following Directions Box include the following: adjectives, prepositions/position words (under, between, above), ordinal words (first, second, third), shapes, and right/left.
Daily Language Instruction DLI for Grade 1 is a focused, stand-alone resource that specifically addresses writing conventions: capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and usage.
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Daily Language Instruction (DLI) offers five distinct advantages when compared to other language resources: 1.
DLI focuses on one new skill each week.
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DLI is quick and effective. Plan 5-10 minutes a day to complete the daily practice Monday-Friday. DLI is age-appropriate and is the perfect complement to Writing Workshop. The quick DLI tasks allow you to keep authentic writing center stage. |
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Grade 1 Book $87.50 |
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Week 8 Sample | |||||
Week 12 Sample | |||||
Week 22 Sample | |||||
Pre-Post Assessment Weeks 7-8 | Table of Contents | ||||
Spelling Sample Weeks 5-6 (Zaner-Bloser) | |||||
Spelling Sample Weeks 5-6 (D'Nealian) | State Assessment Data | ||||
Spelling Sample Week 18 (Zaner-Bloser) |
Bound as one edition,
Grade 1 DLI includes two separate sets of materials:
Zaner-Bloser and D'Nealian.
Grade 1-DLI Educator Bundle
(DLI Book + DLI Student Tasks Days 1-4 on a USB Drive)
$105.50*Enhance your instruction by adding a USB drive to your DLI book.
*Project daily tasks on any interactive whiteboard or display them on an LCD projector.
*Distribute daily tasks digitally and save paper.
*Post the PDF documents on the USB drive to secure platforms like Google Classroom.
(See details below.)
Included on the USB drive: Days 1-4 of student practice tasks in pdf format. The documents on the USB drive correlate with the print edition.
Not included on the USB drive: teacher resource sections (mini-lessons), Day 5 and pre-post assessments, keys, and spelling lists. All of these items are all available in your DLI book.Terms of Use: The single-use license allows the USB drive to be installed on one computer.
Permitted: The PDF files on the USB drive may be posted digitally for online access by your students in a platform such as Google Classroom, but ONLY if access is fully secured. This access must be limited to the teacher's own students and not be accessible to other teachers and/or students.
Not permitted: The PDF files on the USB drive may not be uploaded to teacher, school, or personal websites or transmitted via the Internet.
Click here for a summary of USB drive information.
Click here for DLI USB drive FAQs.
USB drives may be purchased ONLY in conjunction with the purchase of a book as part of an Educator Bundle.
To add a USB drive to a previous book purchase, please call Hogback Press directly- 303-697-4001. We will locate your book purchase and enter the transaction manually.
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