Welcome to 1st Grade!

At the end of the 1st grade our students acquire the following skills:
– Identify, discuss, and understand various reading genres. Independently find main idea, draw conclusion, identify inferencing, cause & effect, and sequence questions.
– Identify 8 parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, proper nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions, and prepositions.
– Locate subjects and predicates in simple sentences.
– Compose a simple story with a beginning, middle, and end.
– Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
– Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
– Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
– Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
– Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
– Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
– Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
– Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.
– By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry.
– Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
– Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
– Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to subject area.
– Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
– Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
– Explain how specific images contribute to and clarify a text.
– Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
– Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
– Read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts.
– Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.
– Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
– Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
– Write persuasive texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and reasons to explain points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
– With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.
– Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
– Use collective nouns, irregular plural nouns, and reflective nouns.
– Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs.
– Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences.
– Use commas in greetings and closings of letters.
– Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.
– Consult reference materials such as dictionaries and glossaries to check for spelling and meaning of words and phrases.
– Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word.
– Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root.