First Grade Standards
Research:
Reading Comprehension & Interpretation
Reading Foundations
Types and Purposes of writing
Number and Quantity
Statistics and Probability
Function, Structure, and Information Processing
Geography
- Is skilled at gathering information from personal experiences to answer a question.
- Is skilled at gathering information from pre-selected sources to answer a question.
- Is skilled at brainstorming.
- Is skilled at capitalizing days of the week, months, and names of people.
- Is skilled at planning and writing details about a certain topic.
- Is skilled at using the correct end punctuation for sentences in grade appropriate writing pieces.
- Is skilled at writing Grade 1 No Excuse Words.
- Is skilled at writing words with common spelling patterns – CVe and VCC
- Understands that a noun is a person place, thing or idea.
- Understands that a sentence conveys meaning.
- Understands the basic structure of a sentence.
Reading Comprehension & Interpretation
- Understands a narrator tells a story
- Understands how images and diagrams contribute to and clarify a text.
- Understands the central message, moral, or lesson in literature is supported by relevant details.
- Understands the relationship between illustrations and text.
Reading Foundations
- Is skilled at manipulating phonemes in single syllable words.
- Is skilled at decoding regularly spelled one-syllable words containing digraphs and blends.
- Is skilled at decoding words with final e and long vowels with multiple spellings.
- Is skilled at using what is known to solve unknown words.
- Knows words from districts Grade 1 list 1-30.
- Understands to represent a sentence is a group of words beginning with an uppercase letter and ending with punctuation.
Types and Purposes of writing
- Is skilled at developing a short sequence of events including supportive details with beginning, middle and end.
Number and Quantity
- Is skilled at estimating, measuring, and expressing the length of an object to the nearest inch and centimeter.
- Is skilled at finding and representing the value of a collection of coins.
- Is skilled at telling time to the hour and half hour in analog.
- Understands addition as putting together and adding to within 20.
- Understands greater than, less than, or equal to for objects using terms and symbols.
- Understands subtraction as taking apart and taking from within 20.
- Understands what the digits of two digit number 20-99 represent amounts of tens and ones.
Statistics and Probability
- Is skilled at organizing, representing and interpreting a simple set of data.
Function, Structure, and Information Processing
- Understands organisms have structures that have different functions to support survival- senses to detect food, legs to get it, arms to carry it away, and a mouth to eat it.
- Understands the basic characteristics of living and non-living things- growing, responding to environment, changing, reproducing.
- Understands the basic needs of living things- food, water, waste removal, shelter, space, air and temperature.
Geography
- Understands – compare and contrasts that people have different cultural backgrounds.
- Understands- compare and contrast that the world is diverse and multicultural.
- Understands- symbolizing- that a map is a visual representation of a place such as a room, home, school neighborhood.