In First Grade we use the Storytown Reading Series
In this series we focus on 5 major components of Reading:
Phonological Awareness
Phonics
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Fluency
We give a weekly lesson test on the skills taught in each lesson. Along with the weekly lesson test we give a weekly spelling test that focuses on a specific phonics skill. We also assess the students with a written Language Arts test weekly to show if the students are mastering the concept of writing complete sentences. This involves the use of capital letters, periods, spacing, and sentence fluency.