Instead of giving your first graders a boring quiz or test, why not assess how much they comprehend a book by assigning a book report? While there are lots of ideas that you can come up with for projects, we've done the work of putting together some of the best book report ideas for first grade students.

Reading in First Grade While classroom experience can vary depending on where students live, whether they attend public or private schools and other factors, education experts say first graders should be able to read at least 150 high-frequency words by the end of the year.

Children in first grade are able to write simple but complete sentences, and they are beginning to understand when to use capital letters, commas, and periods. First graders also begin to use “story language” in their own writing, for example, incorporating phrases such as “once upon a time” and “happily ever after.”

Entering first graders should be able to: Read 80-100 Kindergarten Sight Words (see OCPS sight word list link) Identify all uppercase and lowercase letters. Identify all letters and their sounds.

Teachers don't normally start to give children book reports until they are well into their 3rd and 4th grade years. Although book reports are not given until later in the years they spend through elementary, there is no reason why they can't learn the basics of how to write a book report early on.

A book report is a way to tell others about a book you have read. A good book report should include the book's author, title, characters, setting, and plot, as well as a personal endorsement, which is your opinion of the book.

The contents of the book report, for a work of fiction, typically include basic bibliographical information about the work, a summary of the narrative and setting, main elements of the stories of key characters, the author's purpose in creating the work, the student's opinion of the book, and a theme statement summing ...