240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 1 for Grade 1

240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 1 is the first-grade book of the 240 Vocabulary Words series and the start of the whole sequence. Two hundred and forty first words are taught in gentle lessons built for children just beginning school reading.

A first grader’s vocabulary is the soil every later skill grows in. 240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 1 enriches that soil ten words at a time, starting the journey that 240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 2 continues.

About 240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 1

240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 1 is a grade 1 vocabulary workbook. Twenty-four lessons introduce ten words each with big pictures, simple definitions an adult can read aloud, and activities sized for six-year-old hands and attention.

Its words are the furniture of a child’s world — family, food, animals, colours, actions, feelings — named properly and practised joyfully. 240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 1 is many children’s first workbook of their own.

Work through 240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 1 together, one short lesson at a sitting, always with talk around the pictures. The download is linked from the button on this page.

The First 240 in 240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 1

Every educated person’s vocabulary began as a few hundred words for the things in reach. 240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 1 chooses a beginner’s few hundred with a teacher’s care.

Naming the World

Lessons move through the child’s environment — home, school, park, body, weather — attaching firm words to familiar things. 240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 1 makes the world more nameable, and a nameable world is a thinkable one.

Confidence before Curriculum

Each small lesson ends in certain success, because at six the belief “I can learn words” is worth more than any ten words. Schools starting the series with 240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 1 are really starting with that belief.

240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 1 for Story Time

Its lessons pair naturally with story time — learn the words, then meet them in tonight’s tale. 240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 1 turns listening into a treasure hunt children win nightly.

The series climbs to grade 6 in 240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know Book 6.

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