English

First Grade students:

• Effectively communicate in conversations;

• Express ideas and feelings clearly;

• Ask questions and draw conclusions from pictures and texts;

• Connect their existing knowledge to new information;

• Use appropriate strategies to decode and understand the meaning of words;

• Explain their opinions in writing;

• Explain a topic with facts in writing;

• Produce narratives based on real/imagined experiences in writing;

• Use conventions (punctuation, capitalization) when writing;

• Generate questions for inquiry;

• Identify possible resources to answer questions;

• Develop an answer to research questions;

• Explain the answer to others.