Curriculum

CKLA - SKILLS

CKLA Skills - In first grade, children develop phonological awareness, phonics knowledge, and decoding skills, all of which contribute to the development of fluent reading. These skills are a necessary foundation to reach the ultimate goal of reading: comprehension.


Sonday System Grade 1

Core Knowledge Language Arts

The Knowledge strand of the Core Knowledge Language Arts program is designed to help students build the background knowledge and vocabulary critical to listening and reading comprehension. Through introducing, presenting, and discussing read-alouds in each domain, teachers build students’ listening and reading comprehension and oral language skills. 

Fables and Stories, The Human Body, Different Lands/Similar Stories, Early World Civilizations, Astronomy, Early American Civilizations, The History of the Earth, Animals and Habitats, Fairy Tales, A new Nation: American Independence, Frontier Explorers

Math Expressions


Unit 1 - Early Number Activities - Math Mountains, Partners to 10, addition

Unit 2 -Operations and Simple equations - Addition and subtraction within 10

Unit 3 - Story Problem Strategies

Unit 4 - Basic 10 Structured Concepts

Unit 5 - Ten - Structured Applications

Unit 6 - Comparisons and Data Formats

Unit 7 - Fractions, Circle Graphs, and Clocks

Unit 8 - Money and 2 Digit Addition

Unit 9  - Analyze Story Problems

Unit 10  - Measurement