Standards

Enduring Understandings are important ideas that students should carry with them years beyond the instruction received this year.

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

• People apply different strategies and skills when reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.

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

Essential Questions are the most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.

• Why do we need to understand what we read? *How do we understand what we read?

• Why are the sounds and letters in words important?

• How do we communicate what we have read?

• Why is it important to really think about what we read?

• Why do I need a variety of resources? How do I access information and use it responsibly? How do I evaluate resources?

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

Phonemic Awareness:

        Recognize, hear, and produce patterns of sound in oral language.
        Identify the phonemes of most one syllable words.
        Blend the phonemes of most one syllable words.
        Segment the phonemes of most one syllable words.
 

Phonics:

See Correct Letter Formation from August.
        Recognize and name all letters.
        Know letter sounds.
        Apply knowledge of letter-sounds to decode single syllable words.
        Read simple words including a few sight words.
 

Fluency:

    Repeats simple words, 15 of District 11 Common Words. At the end of quarter two, students will be able to read 30 of these sight words.

    Read orally simple text containing familiar word patterns.
 

Vocabulary:

    Repeats simple words, 15 of District 11 Common Words. At the end of quarter two, students will be able to read 30 of these sight words.
 

Comprehension:
    Tell a simple story with a beginning, middle, and end.
    Retell a known story in own words and in correct sequence.
    Generate a picture/written response to text listened to or read.
    Identify characters, setting, and key events in a text.

Writes for a Variety of Purposes:

Able to generate an idea, topic or point.

Draws related picture that makes sense.
 

Conventions, Mechanics, and Grammar:

    Communicates using letters.

    Uses capitals to start names.

    Uses mostly lower case letters.

    Writes the sounds heard.

    Writes left to right.

Lessons