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