First Grade

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Teresa Roberts, Room A-5

DeeAnn Manley, Room B-4

Sara McKenna-McKee, Room A-3

 

First Grade Essential Standards

Language Arts/English Standards

1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
 

1.4ab Students can hear each sound of a single syllable word.
1.5a Students know the short vowel sounds.
1.5b Students know the long vowel sounds.
1.6 Students can create and state a series of rhyming words.
1.7 Students can add, delete, or change sounds in words to create new ones.
1.8 Students can blend sounds to create recognizable words.
1.9 Students can identify all the sounds that make up words.
1.10ab Students know the letter sounds and how to blend them to read.
1.11 Students can read common and irregular sight words.
1.12 Students can read words with tricky or irregular vowels.
1.13 Students can read compound words and contractions.
1.14 Students can read words with special endings.
1.15 Students know and can read word families.
1.17 Students can classify and categorize grade level words.

2.0 Reading Comprehension

2.2 Students can respond to who, what, when, where, and how questions.
2.5 Students can use keywords to predict what will happen in a story.
2.7 Students can retell the main ideas of the stories.

1.0 Writing Strategies

1.1 Students can select and stay on topic in their writing.

2.0 Writing Applications

2.1 Students can write brief narratives.
2.2 Students can use sensory details to describe objects, people, places, or events.

1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions

1.1 Students can write and speak in complete sentences.
1.2 Students know when it is appropriate to use plural nouns in their writing.
1.3 Students know when and how to use possessive pronouns and contractions when I write and speak.
1.4 Students know and can distinguish between declarative, exclamatory, and interrogative sentences.
1.5 Students will end sentences a period, exclamation point, or question mark.
1.6 Students will use complete punctuation and capitalization in their writing.
1.7 Students know to capitalize the first word in a sentence, names, and the word "I."
1.8 Students spell words with short vowels and grade level sight words correctly.

Mathematics

1.0 Number Sense

1.1a Students can count and write in order up to 50.
1.2a Students can show which number means less than, equal to, or greater than using the signs <,=,> to 50.
1.2b Students can show which number means less than, equal to, or greater than using the signs <,=,> to 100.
1.3a Students can show different ways to make numbers up to 10.  (e.g. number sentences 8=3+5 or 4+4, models or pictures.)
1.3b Students can show different ways to make numbers up to 20.  (e.g. number sentences 12=4+4+4 or 7+5, models or pictures.)
1.4 Students can group and count objects by tens and ones.
1.5 Students know the name and value of each coin in the money system and can show different ways to make the same amount.
2.1a Students know their addition facts up to 10 "as fast as a snap."
2.1b Students know their addition facts up to 20 "as fast as a snap."  They know their subtraction facts down from 20 too.
2.2 Students can use addition facts to solve subtraction facts because they are related.
2.3a Students know what number is one more than and one less than.
2.3b Students know what number is ten more or ten less than.
2.4 Students can count by 2's, 5's, and 10's up to 100.
2.5 Students can show what addition and subtraction means.
2.6a Students can add and subtract problems with one digit numbers.
2.6b Students can add and subtract problems with one- and two-digit numbers.
2.7 Students can add three one-digit numbers. (e.g. 1+1+1=3)

1.0 Measurement and Geometry

1.1 Students can compare the length, width, and volume of objects in different ways. (e.g. standard, non-standard units)
1.2 Students can tell time on the hour and half hour and relate time to events.
2.1 Students know the names of shapes and can tell what makes each shape different. (...including the faces of 3 dimensional objects)
2.2 Students can sort and group objects by attributes and tell why. (e.g. color, shape, roundness, position)

1.0 Mathematical Reasoning

1.1 Students know how to pick a strategy to solve a problem. (e.g. draw a picture, use a manipulative, make a graph, etc.)
1.2 Students can use tools or drawings to solve problems.
2.1 Students can explain and show how they solved a problem, and tell why they did it that way.
2.2 Students can check to sure their answers are correct and make sense.