Language Arts Curriculum
Every child learns at a different speed and in a different style, so don’t worry if your child hasn’t yet mastered every skill on the list. Remember, too, that most children are rusty after a summer off, and I expect to spend the early part of the year in review.
Skills Required at the Beginning of 1st Grade:
Reading
- Recognize and write all of the letters of the alphabet in upper and lowercase forms
- Write their first and last name
- Identify sounds corresponding to vowels and consonants
- Uses initial consonant sounds and sound patterns to read words (for example, f + an = fan; r + an = ran)
- Read several sight words, including names of colors
- Retell a story including details
- Put events of a story in order
- Write simple sentences using sight words and phonics skills
Listening and Communication
- Listen attentively
- Raise their hand and wait to speak
- Follow and repeat spoken directions
- Engage in question-and-answer dialogue with classmates and teachers
- Works as a team on projects or problem-solving
- Relate stories, songs, or poems heard on tape to others
- Focus on the lesson being taught
Skills Acquired During 1st Grade:
- Expand sight word vocabulary
- Recall the sequence of events in oral and written stories
- Discuss story elements such as plot, character, events, and setting
- Understand basic punctuation (capitalize first letter of a sentence, use periods and question marks, etc.)
- Identify the main idea and details in a story
- Print legibly
- Recognize single and plural forms of nouns
- Write in complete sentences
- Differentiate between fiction and nonfiction stories
- Memorize and correctly spell between 130-150 words