Five pages for reading and writing the number words from zero to twenty. Number words are part of reading and writing numbers in 1st grade, and many states name them: Florida asks 1st graders to read numbers written in word form, and Oklahoma to read and write numbers with words. On page 1 students draw a line from each number, 0 to 10, to its word. Page 2 has the numbers 11 to 20, each with a full ten frame and a ten frame of ones, and a word bank of the ten words; students write the word on the line. On page 3 they count apples, turtles, strawberries, owls, lions and butterflies set out in ten frames, write the number in the box and the word on the line. Page 4 turns it around: read a number word, then color that many boxes of a double ten frame. Page 5 has three sets of four number words to write in order from least to greatest, then the word for one more or one less than a number word. Each page starts with a worked example.
Before page 2, write the teen words on the board and underline the "teen" in each: fourteen is four and ten, sixteen is six and ten. Point out the three that do not follow the pattern (eleven, twelve and fifteen, where five turns into "fif"). On page 4, have students color the first ten frame full before they start the second one, so a teen number always looks like ten and some more. Page 5 works well with number cards: turn each word into a number first, put the numbers in order, then copy the words.
Hunt for number words on cereal boxes, in picture books and on signs. Write a number word on a sticky note and ask your child to bring you that many spoons or toy cars. Take turns: one of you says a number, the other writes its word.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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A 5-page number words pack for 1st grade. Draw lines to match the numbers zero to ten to their words. Write the words eleven to twenty for numbers shown with a full ten frame and some ones, using a word bank. Count groups of apples, turtles, owls, lions and butterflies set out in ten frames, then write the number in a box and the word on a line. Read a number word and color that many boxes of a double ten frame. Write four number words in order from least to greatest, and write the word that is one more or one less. Every page comes in color and in black and white. Answer keys included.
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