• First-Grade Learning Objectives

    Reading

    Reading Process (Comprehension, Vocabulary, Connections, & Independent Reading)

    • Predict what will happen next using prior knowledge
    • Ask and respond to relevant questions
    • Seek clarification and locate facts and details about stories and other texts
    • Retell main ideas in sequence including key details
    • Recognize beginning, middle, and end
    • Monitor comprehension and make corrections and adjustments when understanding breaks down
    • Use common affixes to figure out the meaning of a word
    • Identify common root words and their inflectional ending
    • Identify words that name actions and words that name persons, places, or things
    • Recognize that compound words are made up of shorter words
    • Determine what words mean from how they are used in context of a sentence either heard or read
    • Sort words into conceptual categories
    • Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs and adjective
    • Locate words in a dictionary
    • Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to,and responding to texts
    • Connect text to text (text ideas, including similarities and differences in fiction and nonfiction)
    • Engage with and reading text that is developmentally appropriate
    • Produce evidence of reading

    Comprehend, Analyze, and Evaluate Fiction, Poetry, & Drama

    • Describe characters, setting, problem, solution, and events in logical sequences
    • Describe the main idea of a story
    • Describe sensory details
    • Explain recurring phrases and why they are used
    • Explain the actions of the main character and the reasons for those actions
    • Identify who is telling the story
    • Compare and contrast adventures and experiences of characters in stories
    • Use rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration through identifying a regular beat and similarities in word sounds
    • Identify characters and dialogue in plays or performances by actors
    • Recognize sensory details in literary texts

    Comprehend, Analyze, and Evaluate Nonfiction

    • Use text features to restate the main idea
    • Explain facts or details using text features and distinguish between which facts were provided by pictures and which facts were conveyed via words
    • Use text features to locate specific information in text
    • Follow written multi-step directions with picture cues to assist with understanding
    • Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction
    • Identify examples of sensory details
    • Ask and answer questions to clarify meaning
    • Identify main ideas and provide supporting details
    • Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text
    • Identify reasons an author gives to support points in a text
    • Identify similarities and differences between texts on the same topic

    Media Literacy

    • Distinguish purposes of media
    • Explain techniques used in media

    Reading Foundations

    Print Awareness

    • Recognize that sentences are comprised of words separated by spaces
    • Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence

    Phonemic Awareness

    • Produce and identify sounds and syllables in spoken words
    • Distinguish between long and short vowel sounds
    • Recognize the change in a spoken word when a specific phoneme is added, changed, or removed
    • Blend spoken phonemes to form one-or two-syllable words including consonant blends
    • Segment spoken words of three to five phonemes into individual phonemes

    Phonics

    • Decode words in context by using letter-sound knowledge
    • Identify letters for the spelling of short and long vowels
    • Produce consonant blends
    • Produce consonant digraphs
    • Combine sounds from letters and common spelling patterns to create and decode recognizable words
    • Use syllabication patterns to decode word
    • Read irregularly spelled words
    • Read root words with inflectional endings
    • Read contractions and compound words
    • Read high-frequency words
    • Demonstrate decoding skills when reading
    • K-5 Phonics Scope and Sequence

    Fluency

    • Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary

    Writing

    Writing Process

    • Brainstorm and record key ideas
    • Sequence ideas into sentences and stay on topic throughout the text
    • Generating evidence of a simple opening and simple closing
    • Respond to questions and suggestions, clarify meaning by adding details to sentence construction and strengthen writing
    • Edit by leaving spaces between words in sentences
    • Edit for language conventions
    • Use a variety of conventional/digital tools to produce and publish writing

    Write Opinion Texts

    • Introduce a topic or text being studied
    • State an opinion about the topic or text and provide a reason for the opinion
    • Use some specific words that are related to the topic
    • Follow a sense of order in writing
    • Provide some sense of closure

    Write Informative/Explanatory Texts

    • Introduce a topic or text being studied and supply facts
    • Use some specific words that are related to the topic
    • Follow a sense of order in writing
    • Create some sense of closure

    Write Fiction or Nonfiction Narratives and Poems

    • Narrate a story or experience
    • Use details to describe the story or experience
    • Place events in the order they occurred
    • Use linking words to indicate beginning/middle/end
    • Use words that are related to the topic
    • Provide a reaction to what happened in the events

    Research Process

    • Generate a list of open-ended questions about topics of interest
    • Decide what sources of information might be relevant to answer these questions
    • Gather personal and natural evidence from available sources as well as from interviews with local experts
    • Organize information found during group or individual research, using graphic organizers or other aids
    • Make informal presentations of information gathered
    • Self-evaluate using previously established teacher/student criteria

    Language

    Grammar

    • Use nouns and action verbs that designate past, present, and future in sentences
    • Use adjectives/adverbs in sentences
    • Use the conjunctions and, but, and so in sentences
    • Use the articles a, an, and the in sentences
    • Use common prepositions
    • Use common pronouns
    • Produce complete simple and compound sentences

    Conventions

    • Print legibly, using correct spacing between words and sentences
    • Use ending punctuation
    • Capitalize the first letter of others’ first and last names
    • Use commas to separate single words in a series
    • Spell words using regular spelling patterns
    • Spell words phonetically using phonemic awareness and spelling knowledge
    • Arrange words in alphabetical order to the first letter

     

    Speaking & Listening

    Listening

    • Follow classroom listening rules
    • Build on others’ talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others
    • Follow two-step instructions, according to classroom expectations
    • Demonstrate active listening, according to classroom expectations

    Speaking

    • Take turns speaking, according to classroom expectations
    • Build on others’ talk in conversations by responding to comments of others
    • Confirm comprehension of read-alouds and other media by retelling and asking appropriate questions

    Presenting

    • Explain a topic (student-chosen) using a prop, picture, or other visual aid with assistance to show understanding
    • Recite poetry with a group or individually
    • Use complete sentences and adjusting volume, as needed