1st Grade English Language Arts

August - December 

Reading

• Use a variety of reading strategies
• Analyze text to gain understanding
• Use their schema to make meaning when they read
• Use key details to retell a story
• Visualize and describe things that a text brings to mind
• Identify sounds in words and can segment and blend words
• Read high frequency words

Writing

• Use pictures and words to convey meaning
• Revise writing
• Write stories and opinions about topics

Language

• Use words and phrases acquired through conversations and reading

Speaking and Listening

• Following classroom rules
• Engage in conversations through asking questions, restating, and exchanging ideas

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January - May 

Reading

• Reads grade level text with fluency, with purpose, and for comprehension

Writing

• Writes an informative piece introducing a topic supported with facts
• Writes a series of narrative pieces and poems using details

Language

• While speaking and writing use conventions of English language

Speaking and Listening

• Follow classroom listening rules
• Engage in conversations through asking questions, restating, and exchanging ideas