Grade 1 | English Language Arts

Objective: Use key ideas and details - Reading Literature

Action steps

1. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

2. Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

3. Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Objective: Use craft and structure - Reading Literature

Action steps

1. Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

2. Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information.

3. Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

Objective: Integrate knowledge and ideas - Reading Literature

Action steps

1. Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

2. Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.

Objective: Demonstrate range of reading - Reading Literature

Action steps

1. With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Objective: Use key ideas and details - Reading Informational Text

Action steps

1. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

2. Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

3. Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

Objective: Use craft and structure - Reading Informational Text

Action steps

1. Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.

2. Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.

3. Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.

Objective: Integrate knowledge and ideas - Reading Informational Text

Action steps

1. Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.

2. Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

3. Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).

Objective: Demonstrate range of reading - Reading Informational Text

Action steps

1. With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complexity for grade 1.

Objective: Use print concepts

Action steps

1. Recognize the distinguishing features of the first word of a sentence.

2. Recognize the distinguishing features of words that begin with a capital letter.

3. Recognize the distinguishing features of the ending punctuation of a sentence.

Objective: Use phonics

Action steps

1. Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.

2. Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds.

3. Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds, in spoken single-syllable words.

Objective: Recognize phonics and words

Action steps

1. Apply knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.

2. Pronounce large words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.

3. Read words with inflectional endings.

4. Recognize and read irregularly spelled words.

Objective: Read with accuracy and fluency

Action steps

1. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.

2. Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

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

Objective: Write using various text types and purposes

Action steps

1. Write an opinion on a book you have read.

2. State in writing a reason for the opinion.

3. State in writing the conclusion you have reached.

4. Write an informative/explanatory text in which you name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and describe the conclusion you have reached.

5. Write a narrative in which you describe two or more events, include some details regarding what happened, use appropriate words to signal event order, and describe the conclusion you have reached.

Objective: Perform research to build knowledge

Action steps

1. Explore a number of “how to” books on topics of interest and use them to write a sequence of instructions.

2. Gather information from different sources to answer a question.

Objective: Participate in group conversations

Action steps

1. Listen to others with care in a group conversation.

2. Allow one person to speak at a time in a group conversation.

3. Build on others’ talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others.

4. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says to gather additional information.

Objective: Present knowledge and ideas

Action steps

1. Describe people, places, things, and events using appropriate details.

2. Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

3. Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation.

Objective: Use standard English grammar when writing or speaking

Action steps

1. Print all uppercase and lowercase letters.

2. Use common, proper, and possessive nouns where appropriate.

3. Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences.

4. Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns where appropriate.

5. Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future.

6. Use frequently occurring adjectives.

7. Use frequently occurring conjunctions (and, but, or, so, because).

8. Use frequently occurring prepositions (during, beyond, toward).

Objective: Use standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling

Action steps

1. Capitalize dates and names of people.

2. Use end punctuation for sentences.

3. Use commas in dates and to separate single words in a series.

4. Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.

5. Spell untaught words phonetically.

Objective: Determine the meaning of unknown words and phrases

Action steps

1. Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

2. Use frequently occurring beginning-of-word letters (prefix) or end-of-word letters (suffix) as a clue to the meaning of a word.

3. Identify frequently occurring root words (for example, look ) and their changing forms (looks, looked, looking).

Objective: Demonstrate understanding of word relationships

Action steps

1. Sort words into categories (for example, colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

2. Define words by category and by one or more key qualities (for example, a duck is a bird that swims).

3. Identify real-life connections between words and their use.

4. Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (for example, look, peek, glance) and adjectives differing in intensity (for example, large, gigantic).

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