First Grade Expectations

Listening and Speaking
L/S 1.1- Listens and responds to basic commands, instructions, and routine questions during story time using expressions to demonstrate engagement.
L/S 1.2- Develops and demonstrates phonemic awareness and auditory discrimination to identify distinctive sounds.
L/S 1.3- Uses basic vocabulary and language patterns to identify and describe familiar concepts related to self, to family, and to interact with peers.
L/S 1.4- Offers and responds to greetings and farewells using the appropiate cortesy expressions.
L/S 1.5- Uses both verbal and nonverbal forms of communication to express feelings, needs, experiences, and reacts to pictures and simple language cues after listening to read alouds.


Reading
R 1.1- Recognizes letter-sound relationships to decode words and phrases fluently.
R 1.2- Uses phonemic awareness strategies to manipulate sounds and form new monosyllabic words.
R 1.3- Uses context clues and illustrations to identify details and to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words, demonstrates an acquisition of grade-level vocabulary.
R.1.4- Identifies the main character(s) and uses picture cues to identify similarities and differences between characters within narrative text.
R 1.5- Identifies story organization of beginning, middle, and end within narrative text.


Writing
W 1.1- Recognizes and writes the letters of the alphabet, writes initial and final consonants in CVC pattern words.
W 1.2- Writes name correctly; copies words and simple three word sentences using left to right, top to bottom progression; applies appropiate spacing between letters and words; uses phonemic awareness and phonics strategies to spell words.
W 1.3- Identifies a complete sentence using capitalization, recognizes ending punctuation.
W 1.4- Writes to describe a picture, person, or object; writes sentences of two or three words in length.
W 1.5- Uses a picture dictionary as an aid to the writing process.