Following Words and Pages While Reading Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RF.K.1.A

Core Standard
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It is often and overlooked skill, but tracking letters of words while reading is not a very easy task. Most young readers will lose their place, when they are first starting out. We suggest using a flashcard or piece of loose leaf paper when young readers start advancing to sentences. This helps cancel out the noise and helps kids focus on the task at hand. These worksheets will help students start to learn how to track the progression of what they are reading.

Tracking While Reading Worksheets To Print:

Bob's Boots – Color his boots brown. At least the one on the left.

Panda Left | Right – Find the pictures that have the baby panda on the left.

On the Left! – At this point, we seem obsessed with the left directional.

Ordering Pages – How would you properly number two pages in a book?

Reading Lists – Pay special attention to the direction of the arrows.

Reading Books – Where in the book should you begin to read?

Find the Kitten! – Make sure that your teacher reads the directions with you.

Ann's Garden – Make a crayon trail to show how Ann should read this short passage.

Which Way Is Henry Climbing? – Which direction should you read these sentences in?

Which Car Is It? – The car's direction is also the direction that you should be reading in.

Farmers on the Left – More lefts for you to color.

Pointy Starfish – What direction is correct when reading these sentences?

Undersea School – Make sure to read the sentences out loud too.

Happy and Sad Lists – More list reading to focus your students with.

Is Ellie Correct? – This sheet sums up the entire unit topic.

Why Do We Read from Left to Right?

The simplest answer to this question is that we read from left to right only because we write from the left to right. Now, the question arises that why do we write from left to write? The English language has been written this way for centuries. People have added to this rule of language for centuries without ever thinking about changing. To really know the reason why we read from left to right, we will have to dig deeper into the history of language.


The English language does not have any originality. It is heavily derived from the Latin language. The main reason why English starts from left to right is that its predecessor, Latin, was written in a similar way. Now, the Latin language was also not fully created, it was derived from Greek. The Greek language also shared a similar pattern.


Going back to the Sumerian times, when writing was first invented, people used to write on stone slabs from the top to the bottom. However, they noticed that it was not a very convenient method for writing. That is why they tilted the stone slab to 90 degrees which made the writing from either left to right or right to left. After this, there were many languages that were written either from left to right or right to left. Most languages were derived from Proto-Canaanite. These languages include Greek, Aramaic, Brahmi, Hebrew, Arabic, etc. All of these languages were written from right to left. This is because it was considered the right and comfortable way to write for the right-handed people. However, only Greek and Brahmi changed their writing styles to the left to right. All the others remained the same. As English is to some extent a derivative of the Greek language, that is why it is written from left to right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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