1st Grade Learning
1st Grade Learning
Here are some of the topics we will cover this year. Anyway you can reinforce or extend learning at home is greatly appreciated!
Reading
Reading High-Frequency Words
Comprehension
Sequencing Events
Cause and Effect
Understanding Character, Setting, and Plot
Author's Purpose
Identifying Important Ideas
Inferring
Comparing and Contrasting
Uses Background Knowledge to Read Text
Retelling a Story
Asks Questions when Reading
Uses Illustrations to Better Understand the Text
Makes Connections when Reading
Nonfiction
Uses Various Text Features to Locate Key Facts or Information in the Text
Understands the Difference between Fiction and Nonfiction
Reading Fluency
Reading with Accuracy
Appropriate Rate
Appropriate Phrasing
Phonemic Awareness
Blending and Segmenting Words
Understanding Long and Short Vowel Sounds
Phonics
Digraphs (sh, the, wh, ch, tch, ph)
Writing
Organizes Information Appropriately
Provides a Closing Sentence
Uses a Variety of Words and Phrases
Uses Descriptive Words
Spells Grade Level High Frequency Words Correctly
Uses Correct End Punctuation
Uses Capitalization at the Beginning of a Sentence
Uses Common Spelling Patterns Correctly
Uses Commas for Dates and Words in Series
Social Studies
Identify School Rules Both for Indoors & Outdoors
Understand the Need for Rules in School
Identify Symbols in our School, Community and the World
Math
Problem Solving
Word Problems
Using a Hundred Chart
Addition
Two-Digit Addition
Subtraction
Two-Digit Subtraction
Comparing Numbers
Greater Than
Less Than
Using Symbols to Compare Numbers
Measurement
Using Nonstandard Measuring Tools
Equal and Not Equal
TIme
Time to the Hour
Time to the Half Hour
Representing Data
Picture Graphs
Bar Graphs
Tally Charts
Counting
By Ones to 120
By 10's to 120
Understanding Tens and Ones
Reading and Writing Numbers to 120
Geometry
Three-Dimensional
Two-Dimensional
Fractions
Equal or Unequal Parts
Halves
Fourths
Science
Thinks Critically
Abstract Thinking
Asks and Answer Questions
Plan and Carry Out Investigations
Construct Explanations
Design Solutions
Obtain, Evaluate, and Communicate Information