First Grade Curriculum

Reading:

• recognize upper & lower case letters
• identify consonant sounds (beginning, middle & end)
• recognize and use vowel sounds (long/short) and apply rules
• use appropriate decoding skills using blends (e.g. br, st) and digraphs (e.g. sh, th)
• use sight word families for word us and spelling (e.g. mat, cat, hat)
• develop sight word vocabulary- words seen often in print (trick words from fundations)
• use pictures, phonetic and contextual clues to develop meaning
• read with meaning
• develop listening skills
• make comparisons and contrasts

Reader’s Workshop Units of Study:

• Habits of a Good Reader
• Word Solving Strategies
• Introduction to Different Reading Genres
• Reading with Fluency
• Reading Strategies to Help You Think
• Falling in Love with Reading (poetry)
• Character Traits
• Thinking More Deeply About Text
• Research

Writing Units of Study:

• Good Writing Habits
• Personal Narrative
• Informational Writing
• How-to Essay
• Response to Literature
• Poetry
• Opinion Writing
• Daily Journaling

Students will also:

• use writing conventions (capitalization/punctuation/grammar)
• write in complete sentences
• understand the writing process (prewrite, draft, revise/edit, publish, share)

Social Studies Units of Study:

• Rules & Laws
• Family
• Community
• Economics
• Holidays

Science Units of Study:

• Space Systems: Patterns and Cycles The Sun, Moon and Stars
• Light and Sound Waves
• Structure, Function and Information Processing

Math Units of Study:

• Numbers and Counting
• Geometry
• Number Bonds
• Addition Within 10
• Subtraction Within 10
• Understanding Numbers to 20
• Adding and Subtracting Numbers to 20
• Understanding Numbers to 40
• Adding and Subtracting Numbers to 40
• Mental Math Strategies
• Numbers to 120
• Addition and Subtraction to 100
• Length
• Calendar and Time
• Money
• Graphs and Data
• Getting Ready for Multiplication and Division

Technology

Students will use iPads & ChromeBooks for:

• iReady
• Raz Kids
• SeeSaw
• XrtaMath
• Flip Grid
• Google Classroom