Students of all levels can complete and feel successful. In the beginning of the year, students may have abc but after Christmas they often have a-z. The teacher may however suggest only upper case or lower case at the students become more experienced with the task. Students use the newspaper and markers at the alphabet center to locate and isolate letters. This activity has to be modeled but it is a great activity for the beginning of the year in First Grade.
Students can feel some success as readers even if they're non-readers.
Use the newspaper to discover nouns. Students then circle the word in text with a marker. The activity really makes this first grade objective a lot more meaningful and fun. Students love to look at the pictures. To inspire creative writing, students cut out pictures from the newspaper, glue the picture on a large piece of white paper and write a story about what they think the picture is about.