1st Grade End of Year Goals

Numbers, Operations and Algebra

• Students will be able to count, compare, and represent numbers up to 120, with an emphasis on groups of ten's and one's.

• Students will use a variety of models and strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems in real world and mathematical contexts.

  • Students will use number sentences to represent and solve mathematical problems

  • Students will create real world situations corresponding to number sentences

• Students will recognize and create patterns and learn rules to describe patterns.

Geometry

• Students will describe the characteristics of basic shapes

• Students will use basic shapes to compose and decompose other objects in various contexts.

• Students will use basic concepts of measurement in real world and mathematical situations involving length, time and money.

Literature and Comprehension:

• Students will be able to ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

• Students will be able to retell stories, describe characters and setting using key vocabulary.

• Students will be able to explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information.

Foundational Skills:

• Students will demonstrate and understanding spoken words, syllables and sounds (this is called "Phonological Awareness"

• Students will know all letter names and one-to-one letter-sound correspondences for all consonants and vowels -- both long and short sounds.

• Students will know the spelling-sound correspondences and how to properly decode consonant digraphs, initial and final consonant blends, and vowel digraphs.

• Students will learn how to decode one and two syllable words and read these words fluently in a passage.

• Students will recognize and read irregular words in context, often called "high frequency words".

Students will use these all these foundational skills to become accurate and fluent readers who comprehend what they read!