First Grade Curriculum at a Glance
Reading Fiction and Nonfiction
- Asks and answers questions about text
- Retells important details from text
- Sequences major events (beginning, middle, end)
- Uses illustrations and details to describe characters, setting, or events
- Uses comprehension strategies to understand text
Foundations of Reading
- Knows and applies grade-level phonics skills for decoding words
- Reads high-frequency words by sight
- Reads grade-level text at an appropriate rate with expression to support understanding
Writing
- Writes for different purposes (i.e., journal entries, thank you notes, letters, etc.)
- Focuses on a topic and adds details
- Writes simple narrative, informative, & opinion pieces
- Develops and strengthens writing by using the writing process
Language
- Hears and records sounds in words (inventive spelling)
- Uses capital letters appropriately
- Writes complete sentences
- Uses end punctuation
- Begins using nouns, verbs, and adjectives in writing
Speaking and Listening
- Participates appropriately in discussions within a group
- Expresses complete thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly
Handwriting
- Forms letters and numbers correctly
- Writes clearly and legibly
Word Study (Spelling)
- Applies learned spelling skills in daily writing
- Spells words in isolation (differentiated BEAR assessments)
Math
- Compares and orders whole numbers from 0-120
- Recognizes the quantity of objects up to 20 without counting (using 10 frames, etc.)
- Reads, writes, and counts numbers up to 120 by ones
- Demonstrates number patterns by counting up to 120 by tens, fives, and twos
- Understands and demonstrates place value (hundreds, tens, ones)
- Uses addition and subtraction strategies up to 20
- Adds fluently 0-10 (memorization)
- Subtracts fluently 0-10 (memorization)
- Identifies coins and values using the cent symbol
- Determines the value of a collection of coins
- Identifies and demonstrates an understanding of repeating patterns
- Understands the relationships between addition and subtraction (fact families)
- Uses strategies of grouping numbers together to find the answer
- Identifies and creates 2D and 3D shapes
- Recognizes basic calendar concepts
- Tells and writes time by the hour, half hour, and quarter hour
- Measures and compares objects by length and capacity
- Understand equal parts (beginning fractions)
- Reads and interprets various graphs and tables
Social Studies
- Understands the main purpose of government
- Understands patriotic symbols and activities
- Describes how historic figures of the past demonstrated positive character traits
- Understands the relationship between consumers and producers
- Understands that a map and a globe help us locate places such as the continents and oceans
- Describes different types of communities (urban and rural)
- Creates basic timelines of historic figures in American History
- Identifies historic places and monuments
Science
- Participates in simple experiments
- Participates in science discussions and activities
- Understands the characteristics and basic needs of organisms
- Uses observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted
- Explores ways to reduce human impact on the land, water, air, and other living things