Grade 1 • Language Arts What Your Child Will Learn
Overview of Being a Reader and Being a Writer
Applies Grade Level Reading Foundational Skills
- Phonics and Word Recognition
- Recognize and use two to three letter clusters (blends, digraphs) that represent consonant sounds (e.g., bi, sn, ch, thr).
- Recognize and use some simple letter combinations that represent long vowel sounds.
- Recognize and use possessives that add an apostrophe and s to a singular noun.
- Recognize and understand contractions with am, is, will, and not.
- Reads high frequency words.
- Use known words to monitor reading and spelling.
- Use known words and word parts (onsets and rimes) to help in reading and spelling new words (e.g., sh-ake).
- Break words into syllables to read or write them.
- Use letter-sound information in coordination with meaning and language structure to solve words.
- Phonological Awareness
- Hear and identify long and short vowel sounds in words.
- Change the onset or rime to make a new word.
- Identify initial, medial, and ending sounds in spoken words.
- Print Concepts
- Understand how written language is organized and used.
- Recognizes features of a sentence such as first word, capitalization, and ending punctuation.
- Fluency
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- Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Demonstrates Reading Comprehension
- Students who demonstrate comprehension of literature will:
- Ask and answer questions about key details in text.
- Retell stories including key details and demonstrate understanding of the message.
- Describe characters, settings, and major events in the story.
- Identify words or phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
- Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information.
- Identify who is telling the story at various points in the text.
- Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
- Students who demonstrate comprehension of informational text will:
- Ask and answer questions about key details in text.
- Know and use various text features to locate information in a text.
- Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
- Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic.
- Evaluate a text based on the personal, world, or text knowledge.
Writes for Different Purposes and Audiences
- Writing opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide a sense of closure.
- Writing informative texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
- Writing narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use time order words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
Demonstrates Listening and Speaking Skills to Productively Participate in Conversations
- Comprehension and Collaboration
- Participate in collaborative conversations.
- Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
- Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood.
- Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
- Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.
Applies Grade Level Knowledge of Language and Its Conventions When Writing or Speaking
- Conventions of Standard English
- Capitalize dates and names of people.
- Use end punctuation for sentences.
- Use commas in dates and to separate single words in a series.
- Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- Spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions.
- Acquire and Use Vocabulary
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- Recognize and use a variety of compound words.
- Recognize and use synonyms and antonyms.
- Build vocabulary by increasing their level of word- and concept-based knowledge (important words, useful words, multiple meaning, and challenging words).