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First Grade

Teachers:

Nicole Fairchild

Norma Romanyuk

Angelica Shanta / Martin Saunders

First Grade Website

Common Core Standards for Speaking and Listening

Comprehension and Collaboration:

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:

  • Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
  • Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
  • Build on others' talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others through multiple exchanges.
  • Ask questions to clear up any confusion about the topics and texts under discussion.
  • 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.
  • Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.
  • Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
  • Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation.
Common Core Standards for Reading Informational Text

Key Ideas and Details:

Craft and Structure:

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:

  • Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
  • Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
  • Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
  • 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.
  • Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.
  • Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
  • 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 (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
  • With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.
Common Core Standards for Math

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Number and Operations in Base Ten

Measurement and Data

Geometry

Mathematical Practices

  • Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
  • Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
  • Add and subtract within 20.
  • Work with addition and subtraction equations.
  • Extend the counting sequence.
  • Understand place value.
  • Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
  • Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.
  • Tell and write time.
  • Represent and interpret data.
  • Reason with shapes and their attributes.
  1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
  2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
  3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
  4. Model with mathematics.
  5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
  6. Attend to precision.
  7. Look for and make use of structure.
  8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Common Core Standards for Reading Literature

Key Ideas and Details:

Craft and Structure:

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:

  • Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
  • Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
  • Identify words and 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, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
  • Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.
  • Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
  • Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
  • With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
Common Core Standards for Reading Foundational Skills

Print Concepts:

Phonological Awareness:

Phonics and Word Recognition:

Fluency:

  • Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
  • Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).
  • Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
  • Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
  • Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends
  • Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.
  • Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds (phonemes).
  • Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
  • Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
  • Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  • Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
  • Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.
  • Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
  • Read words with inflectional endings.
  • Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
  • Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
  • Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
  • Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
  • Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
Common Core Standards for Writing

Text Types and Purposes:

Production and Distribution of Writing:

Research to Build and Present Knowledge:

  • Write 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 some sense of closure.
  • Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
  • Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
  • With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
  • With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
  • Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of "how-to" books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions).
  • With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.