First Grade Team
WHAT ARE WE LEARNING IN FIRST GRADE?
Reading
Our reading curriculum, CKLA, is divided into two strands.
| The Skills Strand provides comprehensive instruction in foundational reading skills, such as phonological awareness, phonics, and word recognition; language skills, including conventions of English, spelling, and grammar; reading comprehension; and writing instruction. |
The Knowledge Strand is centered around complex narrative and informational read-aloud texts. The Knowledge Strand focuses on background knowledge and vocabulary acquisition, analysis of complex text, and speaking and listening. |
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Writing
What is a Sentence? We learn how to write sentences with capitals, periods, spaces, and we make sure that they make sense.
Narrative Writing: We focus on creating a strong beginning, middle, and end.
Informational Writing: We focus on writing a complete paragraph using a topic sentence, 3 big ideas, details, and a conclusion.
Opinion Writing - We focus on stating our opinion and giving reasons to support our opinion within a paragraph.
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Bridges to Mathematics
Unit 1: Numbers All Around us
Unit 2: Developing Strategies with Dice and Dominos
Unit 3: Adding, Subtracting, Counting, and Comparing
Unit 4: Leap Frogs on the Number Line
Unit 5: Geometry
Unit 6: Figure the Facts with Penguins
Unit 7: One Hundred and Beyond
Unit 8: Changes, Changes
End of First Grade Expectations
Reading: Students will read a minimum of 55 words per minute, in a standard first grade passage, with fluency and comprehension. They will apply phonics skills, spelling rules, context clues, & other taught skills and strategies, to decode unfamiliar words and understand content.
Writing: Students will write an expository paragraph using a topic sentence, big ideas, supporting details and a conclusion. Students will write an organized piece of narrative writing that includes a beginning, middle and end. Students will also gain an understanding of many types of writing including poetry, opinion writing, response to literature and much more.
Math: Students will be proficient at the first grade level in number sense, computation, geometry and data analysis.
