Standards
Enduring Understandings
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Different strategies and skills are required to understand a variety of
materials.
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People apply different strategies and skills when reading, writing,
speaking, listening, and viewing.
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People access, read, evaluate, and use a variety of resources to get
information.
Essential Questions
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Why do we need to understand what we read? *How do we understand what we
read?
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Why are the sounds and letters in words important?
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How do we communicate what we have read?
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Why is it important to really think about what we read?
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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:
Identify
the phonemes of most one syllable words.
Blend
the phonemes of most one syllable words.
Segment
the phonemes of most one syllable words.
Recognize, hear, and
produce patterns of sound in oral language.
Phonics:
See Correct Letter
Formation from August
Read
simple words including a few sight words.
Recognize
and name all letters.
Know
letter sounds.
Apply
knowledge of letter-sounds to decode single syllable words.
Fluency:
At the end
of quarter one, students will be able to read 15 of these sight/common words
(D11
Common Word Lists).
Vocabulary:
Repeats
simple words, 15 of
D11 common words.
Comprehension:
Understand
difference between genres: fiction, non-fiction, poetry.
Retells
known story in sequence.
Understands
story elements: identifies characters, setting, key events in story.
Able
to tell a story with beginning, middle and end.
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.
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