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     First Grade Curriculum Standards
Language Arts Standards

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Reading:​

  • Explain major differences between texts that tell stories and texts that give information.

  • Read prose, poetry, and informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.

  • Ask and answer questions about main idea and key details in a text.

  • Utilize reading strategies to comprehend texts (visualization, summarizing, etc.)

  • Retell stories, including the beginning, middle, and end.

  • Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

  • Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

  • Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

  • Use text features to locate key facts or information in a text.

  • Recognize and produce rhyming words.

  • Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words (short vowel sounds).

  • Segment and blend words.

  • Read words with inflectional endings.

 

Writing:

  • Write narratives that recount two or more events, include details, and provide some sense of closure.

  • Write informative texts that name a topic, supply facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.

Math Standards

 

 

 

Conventions of Standard English Language:

  • Capitalize dates and names of people.

  • Use end punctuation for sentences.

  • Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.

  • Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.

  • Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences.

  • Use verbs to convey past, present, and future.

  • Use adjectives to describe nouns.

  • Produce and expand simple and compound sentences in response to questions and prompts (declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory).

 

 

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  • Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120.  In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written number.

  • Understand place value.

  • Add and subtract up to 20.

  • Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.

  • Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.

  • Identify dimes, and understand ten pennies can be thought of as a dime.

  • Tell time to the hour and half hour.

  • Measure length using standard and non-standard units.

  • Identify and make plane and solid shapes.

  • Understand and use fractions (halves and fourths).

 

 

Science and Social Studies Standards

Third Quarter Concepts

 

Science:​

  • Sound

  • Light

 

Social Studies:​

  • Benjamin Franklin

  • George Washington Carver

  • Theodore Roosevelt

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Technology Standards

Yearly Standards:

  • Recognize common terminology, icons, and symbols related to basic functions of technology, and apply (with posture and proper finger position) that knowledge to new technologies.

  • Demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.

  • Use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

  • Use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.

  • Demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations.

  • Understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.

  • Type with proficiency, using proper "home key" fingering.

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