First Grade Team
WHAT ARE WE LEARNING IN FIRST GRADE?
Reading
Our reading curriculum, BLAST, provides lessons that are designed to teach letter-sound correspondence, phonemic and phonological awareness, high-frequency word fluency, phonics knowledge, and spelling. These elements of reading promote strong decoding and fluent, accurate reading.
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Writing
Literacy Lab: Building a community of Readers and Writers
Literature Genre Lab: Family Stories & Families
Informational Research Lab: Wild and Endangered Animals
Argumentative Lab - Plants
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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.
