Standards

• Different strategies and skills are required to understand a variety of materials.

• People apply critical thinking skills when reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.

• People access, read, evaluate, and use a variety of resources to get information.

Essential Questions

• What does it mean to "understand," why do we need to understand what we read or hear, and what strategies and skills can we use to understand a variety of materials?

• What is critical thinking, why is important, and how can we use critical thinking skills?

• Why do I need ?

• How can I access information from a a variety of resources, evaluate it, and use it responsibly?

Standards
Must be Mastered by End of Year Must be Introduced Other Standards & E-skills
 

Phonemic Awareness:

Use onset and rime to create new words that include blends and digraphs.

Hear and identify initial, medial, and final sounds of a given word.

Hear the similarities of sounds in words and rhythmical patterns in a sequence.

Recognize alliteration.
 

Phonics/Alphabetic Principle and Word Study:

Recognizes and applies knowledge of letter sound relationships including consonants, consonant blends, digraphs, common short and vowel patterns to decode unknown words.
 

Correct Letter Formation

a (long - ate), o (long - old), o - /oo/ - (do), e (long - me), i (long - pine), u (long - unit), u (put), ch (chin), sh (ship), th (hard as in that, soft as in thin), wh (blowing feathers off of hand), qu (queen), Spelling Rule:  ff, ll, ss, zz

Two syllable compound words, Syllabication, Chunking, Silent, final e, oa (boat, floats), ai (mail), ee (tree-Double ee always says 'ee.'), ay (play), oe (toe), igh (light), Ending: y as a long e (lovely, baby, funny), Ending: y as a long i (cry), y as a vowel (myth), c (soft as in cent), g (soft as in cage), a (ball), ng (sing, ring), oi (oil), oy (boy), ch ('ch' as in chin.), ea (eat)
    Multisyllabic words with blends

ph (phone), ck (black), er (her), ir (first, bird), ur (nurse, burn), ear (early), ow (cow and snow), ou (ouch, four, you, and trouble), ar (star, car), or (horn), oo (boot, foot, and floor), dge (j as in dodge), aw (straw), au (August), tch (catch), ed (as a suffix: 'ed', 'd', 't' - past tense ending), eigh (eight), kn (knife), ie (chief, pie), eu (Europe), ei (ceiling, vein, and forfeit) ch ('k' as in school, 'sh' as in chef), ea (head, and great), ew (few), ue (true), s (z as in is), ui (fruit, suit), ey (they, key), gn (gnaw, sign), wr (write)
                

Fluency:

  First grade students will read all 76 Kindergarten words and: At the end of quarter one, students will be able to read 50 of D11 sight words. Other words will be learned from phonics, spelling and vocabulary programs to total the expected 300-500 + words.  Demonstrate a reading vocabulary of 50-60 words, including D-11 sight words and one and two syllable words.
    Read orally grade level materials, attending to phrasing, intonation, and punctuation.

Vocabulary:

Demonstrate a reading vocabulary of 50-60 words, including D-11 sight words and one and two syllable words

Comprehension:

Read, comprehend, and listen to a range of genres: narrative texts and expository texts.

        Connect information and events in texts to life experiences.

Writing: Writes for a Variety of Purposes  Quarter 1 Writing Rubric
    Generate topic and/or creates a writing plan / prewriting (brainstorming, webbing, mapping, visuals)

Writing: Conventions, Mechanics, Grammar 
    Write simple sentences: Identify a subject, noun, verb in a sentence, legible writing, correct letter formation, spacing and word formation, capitalize sentence beginnings and proper nouns, punctuate end of sentences.
    Spells high frequency words correctly Link to D11 Spelling Lists
1st Grade Word List - Teacher Copy/Datasheet -  Student Copy

During the 2007-2008 school year,  Literacy Resource Teachers and classroom teachers will be correlating textbook pages to the emphasized standards for each month. Also, teachers will be developing District 11 Diamond Lessons for each quarter.
 

Reading Programs

Writing Programs

Lessons