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Language Arts - Elementary Curriculum English Language Arts Grade 1
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Core Standards of the Course

College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for K-5 Reading

The K–5 standards on the following pages define what students should understand and be able to do by the end of each grade. They correspond to the College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards.

Reading Standards for Literature

The following standards offer a focus for instruction each year and help ensure that students gain adequate exposure to a range of texts and tasks. Rigor is also infused through the requirement that students read increasingly complex texts through the grades. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades.

Key Ideas and Details

Reading: Literature Standard 1
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

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Reading: Literature Standard 2
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.


Reading: Literature Standard 3
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.


Craft and Structure

Reading: Literature Standard 4
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.


Reading: Literature Standard 5
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.


Reading: Literature Standard 6
Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.


Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Reading: Literature Standard 7
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.


Reading: Literature Standard 8
(Not applicable to literature)


Reading: Literature Standard 9
Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.

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Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Reading: Literature Standard 10
With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.


Reading Standards for Informational Text

Key Ideas and Details

Reading: Informational Text Standard 1
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.


Reading: Informational Text Standard 2
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.


Reading: Informational Text Standard 3
Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.


Craft and Structure

Reading: Informational Text Standard 4
Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.


Reading: Informational Text Standard 5
Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.


Reading: Informational Text Standard 6
Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.


Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Reading: Informational Text Standard 7
Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.


Reading: Informational Text Standard 8
Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.


Reading: Informational Text Standard 9
Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).


Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Reading: Informational Text Standard 10
With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.


Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

These standards are directed toward fostering students’ understanding and working knowledge of concepts of print, the alphabetic principle, and other basic conventions of the English writing system. These foundational skills are not an end in and of themselves; rather, they are necessary and important components of an effective, comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers with the capacity to comprehend texts across a range of types and disciplines. Instruction should be differentiated: good readers will need much less practice with these concepts than struggling readers will. The point is to teach students what they need to learn and not what they already know—to discern when particular children or activities warrant more or less attention.

Phonics and Word Recognition

Reading: Foundational Skills Standard 1
Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.

a.
Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).


Phonological Awareness

Reading: Foundational Skills Standard 2
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

a.
Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.

b.
Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.

c.
Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.

d.
Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds (phonemes).


Phonics and Word Recognition

Reading: Foundational Skills Standard 3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

a.
Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.

b.
Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

c.
Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

d.
Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.

e.
Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.

f.
Read words with inflectional endings.

g.
Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.


Fluency

Reading: Foundational Skills Standard 4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

a.
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

b.
Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

c.
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.


College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing

The K–5 standards below define what students should understand and be able to do by the end of each grade. They correspond to the College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards for Writing.

Writing Standards

The following writing standards offer a focus for instruction each year to help ensure that students gain adequate mastery of a range of skills and applications. Each year in their writing, students should demonstrate increasing sophistication in all aspects of language use, from vocabulary and syntax to the development and organization of ideas, and they should address increasingly demanding content and sources. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades. The expected growth in student writing ability is reflected both in the standards themselves and in the collection of annotated student writing samples in Appendix C.

Text Types and Purposes

Writing Standard 1
Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.


Writing Standard 2
Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.


Writing Standard 3
Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.


Production and Distribution of Writing

Writing Standard 4
(Begins in grade 3)


Writing Standard 5
With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed.


Writing Standard 6
With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.


Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Writing Standard 7
Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of "how-to" books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions).


Writing Standard 8
With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.


Writing Standard 9
(Begins in grade 4)


Range of Writing

Writing Standard 10
(Begins in grade 3)


College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for K-5 Speaking and Listening

The K–5 standards below define what students should understand and be able to do by the end of each grade. They correspond to the College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards for Speaking and Listening.

Speaking and Listening Standards

The following Speaking and Listening standards offer a focus for instruction each year to help ensure that students gain adequate mastery of a range of skills and applications. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades.

Comprehension and Collaboration

Speaking and Listening Standard 1
Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

a.
Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).

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b.
Build on others’ talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others through multiple exchanges.

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c.
Ask questions to clear up any confusion about the topics and texts under discussion.


Speaking and Listening Standard 2
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.


Speaking and Listening Standard 3
Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood.


Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

Speaking and Listening Standard 4
Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.


Speaking and Listening Standard 5
Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.


Speaking and Listening Standard 6
Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation. (See grade 1 Language standards 1 and 3 for specific expectations.)


College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for K-5 Language

The K–5 standards on the following pages define what students should understand and be able to do by the end of each grade. They correspond to the College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards for Language.

Language Standards

The following Language standards offer a focus for instruction each year to help ensure that students gain adequate mastery of a range of skills and applications. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades. Beginning in grade 3, skills and understandings that are particularly likely to require continued attention in higher grades as they are applied to increasingly sophisticated writing and speaking are marked with an asterisk (*). See the table on page 33 for a complete list and Appendix A for an example of how these skills develop in sophistication.

Conventions of Standard English

Language Standard 1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

a.
Independently identify and legibly write all upper-and lowercase letters (legibility is defined as the letter being recognizable to readers in isolation from other letters in a word).

b.
Produce grade-appropriate text using legible writing.

c.
Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.

d.
Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (e.g., He hops; We hop).

e.
Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns (e.g., I, me, my; they, them, their, anyone, everything).

f.
Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future (e.g., Yesterday I walked home; Today I walk home; Tomorrow I will walk home).

g.
Use frequently occurring adjectives.

h.
Use frequently occurring conjunctions (e.g., and, but, or, so, because).

i.
Use determiners (e.g., articles, demonstratives).

j.
Use frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., during, beyond, toward).

k.
Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.


Language Standard 2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

a.
Capitalize dates and names of people.

b.
Use end punctuation for sentences.

c.
Use commas in dates and to separate single words in a series.

d.
Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.

e.
Spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions.


Knowledge of Language

Language Standard 3
(Begins in grade 2)


Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Language Standard 4
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.

a.
Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

b.
Use frequently occurring affixes as a clue to the meaning of a word.

c.
Identify frequently occurring root words (e.g., look) and their inflectional forms (e.g., looks, looked, looking).


Language Standard 5
With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

a.
Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

b.
Define words by category and by one or more key attributes (e.g., a duck is a bird that swims; a tiger is a large cat with stripes).

c.
Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy).

d.
Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings.


Language Standard 6
Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., because).



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