RL 1.1 Time Assessed: Bi-Weekly
Ask and Answer questions about key details in a narrative text.
Activities to do at home not using technology:
To practice comprehension, check out a fiction story book for the library (or use one you have at home). Read the story then practice retelling it by playing “Roll and Retell” or “Five Finger Retell.” For Roll and Retell, the student will roll a dice then answer the question that is next to the number that is rolled. If you do not have a dice write the numbers 1-6 on separate pieces of paper, put them in a cup and draw a number from the cup. Find evidence in the story to support your answers. For “Five Finger Retell” students can retell the story using their hand.
Links to online activities/videos that practice this activity:
Read a book online (fiction)
Link to a practice assessment or a very detailed explanation of how this is assessed:
RL1 is assessed every other week. The students are given a reading passage on a 1st-grade level. First, the teacher calls each student up individually to get his/her oral reading fluency. Next, the students read the passage again independently. Then, students answer comprehension questions based on the story. The students have the story to refer to if needed.
RL 1.2 Assessed: 1st 9 Weeks
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Activities to do at home not using technology:
When reading a book, have the students retell the story by associating their fingers to the parts of the story like above.
When reading a book, have the students roll a dice and answer the question.
This is a printable story map you can print out and have your student either write sentences for each part of the story OR draw a picture.
This is a printable story map you can print out and have your student either write sentences for each part of the story OR draw a picture.
You can practice this skill with any book, movie, or television show! Read a story with your child or have your child read a story (or think about a show or a movie). Then your child can use their hand or the story map to help them retell the story, focusing on the most important events.
Roll and Retell game This is a fun way to play with retelling a story.
There are a wide variety of story maps available. Here are a couple of options that you could choose to draw or print (click on the story maps above for a link to print).
Links to online activities/videos that practice this activity:
Roomrecess.com has short video lessons, games, and worksheets to practice on a wide variety of reading and math skills.
Link to a practice assessment or a very detailed explanation of how this is assessed:
Students will read a short passage to use to retell.
Students will tell the teacher about the important events in the story (beginning, middle, and end, problem, and solution).
The students must identify the characters and setting of the story.
Students are also expected to tell the central message of the story, as well as what the main character learned in the story.
RL 1.3 Time Assessed: 1st 9 Weeks
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
Activities to do at home not using technology:
You can practice this skill using a book, show, or movie. Ask your child about the characters in the book, the setting of the book, and the beginning, middle, and end of the book. You can use a story map to help practice this skill.
You can make cards that tell the main events in a story. Then have your child put them in order and label what they are (setting, characters, beginning, middle, and end).
Link to a practice assessment or a very detailed explanation of how this is assessed:
Students will read a book. They will use it to answer the questions.
Students will draw the main character and write how that character looks, feels, and interacts with others.
Students will draw the setting and write where and when the story takes place.
Students will draw and write what happens in the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Students will answer questions about events which happen in the story.
RL 1. 4 Time Assessed: 3rd 9 Weeks
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Activities to do at home not using technology:
Go over the 5 senses and words that would go along with each sense (fuzzy, hard, stinky, quiet, loud, etc).
Paper bag poetry. Put a few items with different textures into a bag. Have your child feel in the bag without peeking to describe what they feel.
Act out a scene (being sick, sledding down a giant hill) and have your child guess how you feel by your words, actions, and facial expressions.
Links to online activities/videos that practice this activity:
https://www.greatschools.org/gk/do-you-feel-me/
Link to a practice assessment or a very detailed explanation of how this is assessed:
Read Suzy Mule on getepic.com or on youtube, then answer these questions.
1. How does Suzy Mule feel at the beginning of the story?
2. On page 3, what is a word that you can hear in the story?
3. On page 14, how is Suzy feeling? What words let you know she feels that way?
RL 1.5 Time Assessed: 3rd 9 Weeks
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
Activities to do at home not using technology:
Take an old magazine or Scholastic Book Order, and have the student cut out excerpts that are fiction and nonfiction. Sort them into the two categories.
Links to online activities/videos that practice this activity:
Learning about fiction and nonfiction on Youtube
Link to a practice assessment or a very detailed explanation of how this is assessed:
Listen to Monkey Puzzle and Monkeys.
RL 1.6 Time Assessed: 3rd 9 Weeks
Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.
Activities to do at home not using technology:
Imagination- pretend you are an object or another person and have your child guess who or what you are (You open my door and put some cold food inside. When you close the door you push some of my buttons. As I count backwards, your food begins to warm. I beep loud, and you open the door to take out your warm food. What am I? - a microwave).
Links to online activities/videos that practice this activity:
Link to a practice assessment or a very detailed explanation of how this is assessed:
1. Riding on the back of a truck is pretty cool. You can enjoy getting fresh air, but sometimes it’s kind of smelly. You have to use your muscles to make sure all of the garbage gets in the truck.
a narrator a teacher a dentist a police officer
2. Open wide! I talk a lot but often people have a hard time talking back. I keep telling them not to forget to floss, and I’m very helpful if your teeth are hurting, but people are still scared to come see me.
a cat a student a dentist a police
*Students must also tell the teacher how they know their answer choice is correct.
RL 1.7 Time Assessed: 2nd 9 Weeks
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Activities to do at home not using technology:
Read a picture book with your child. Ask your child questions about the story. Have them tell if they know from the picture or illustration.
How does the character feel?
Where does this story take place?
What is the character doing?
Links to online activities/videos that practice this activity:
Illustrations video
Link to a practice assessment or a very detailed explanation of how this is assessed:
Students will use illustrations to describe how characters feel, the setting, and events that occur.
Students will read a short passage. They will describe what happens, the setting, and how characters act and feel.
Students will read or listen to a story. They will use the words and pictures to tell how characters are feeling at different points in the story, where the story takes place, and what happens during the story.
There is no RL 1.8 in First Grade.
RL 1.9 Time Assessed: 3rd 9 Weeks
Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
Activities to do at home not using technology:
You can practice this skill with any set of books, shows, or movies. You can draw or print a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast two books, two characters, or two experiences/adventures. You can also just talk about these ideas. You might choose two characters in the book and tell how they are the same and how they are different. You could choose two books in the same series and compare what happens with the characters in one book to the other book. You could choose two versions of a fairy tale or two books that are about the same topic or theme and see how they are similar and different. You can use the sentence starters: “They both have…” for comparing and “One has …., but the other has…” for contrasting.
Links to online activities/videos that practice this activity:
Comparing and contrasting video
Link to a practice assessment or a very detailed explanation of how this is assessed:
Students will listen to or watch two versions of a fairy tale.
Students will write a way the two books or characters are the same.
Students will write a way the two books or characters are different.
Students will answer questions showing how the books are different by choosing which book has that character or event.
RL 1.10 Time Assessed: Ongoing Skill
With prompting and support, read prose and poetry appropriately complex for grade 1.
Activities to do at home not using technology:
Read a poem (you can find some here). Find words that appeal to the senses (see, taste, hear, feel or smell). Summarize the poem. Discuss what you think the poem is about.
Links to online activities/videos that practice this activity:
Link to a practice assessment or a very detailed explanation of how this is assessed:
This is an ongoing skill that is assessed by teacher observation several times a year. The students are given a short poem to read independently. They circle words in the poem that appeal to the senses and answer comprehension questions about the poem.