Download 1st Grade Essential Skills by Quarter

1st Grade Essential Skills by Quarter
1st Quarter
2nd Quarter
All previous plus -
Reading:
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Read with automaticity at
least 75% (63/84)
kindergarten iready sight
words
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Read fluently and pass
comprehension assessment at
a DRA2 level 6.
Reading:
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Read with automaticity all
kindergarten iready sight words
and 40%( 50/127) of 1st grade
iready sight words.
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Read fluently and pass
comprehension assessment at
DRA2 level 8 or above.
Essential comprehension and
vocabulary skills;
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Recognize some sight words.
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Use picture clues to help
determine word meanings
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Select appropriate books for
independent reading
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Read familiar patterned text
independently
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Tell about a favorite book
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Use known words and text to
picture match
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Talk about what is happening
in the pictures
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Understand the concept of
paragraphs and story
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Understand the words used to
talk about printed language
concepts (words, letter, sound,
beginning, middle, end, first,
next, last, etc.)
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Recall and retell simple plot
sequentially
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Understand steps in a
sequence. (ex: 2 or 3 step
directions)
Essential comprehension, and vocabulary
skills:
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Understanding story vocabulary
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Consistently matching word and
voice, one to one
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Holding the story line while
accessing visual information
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Constructing meaning using
illustrations or photographs
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Making text-to-self connections
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Cross-checking words (Does it
make sense? -sound right? -look
right?)
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Predicting what will happen next
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Orally retell a story sequentially
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Retell a story using story
characters
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Identify and retell main ideas
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Identify a favorite part of the
story and tell why
Essential fluency skills:
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Practice fluency in a variety of
ways, choral reading, partner
reading, and repeated oral
readings
Essential Fluency Skills
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Read in two- to three-word
phrases
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Read with some expression and
appropriate intonation
Based on CC and CAS 2015
3rd Quarter
All previous plus -
Reading:
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Read with automaticity all
kindergarten iready sight words
and 70%(89/127) of 1st grade
iready sight words.
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Read fluently and pass
comprehension assessment at DRA2
level 12 or above.
Essential comprehension and
vocabulary skills:
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Understanding content-area
vocabulary
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Use meaning, structure, and visual
information to problem solve
unknown words
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Make text-to-text connections
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Use graphic organizers to extend
learning
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Attend to and read punctuation
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Monitor meaning, stop and reread
when meaning is not clear
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Establish a purpose for reading
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Give an adequate retelling of the
story events including characters,
setting, and sequence of events
with some detail
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Respond orally to guided questions
about judgments and inferences
Essential Fluency skills:
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Read dialogue with expression
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Read at an appropriate rate
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Adjust reading rate as necessary
4th Quarter
All previous plus -
Reading:
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Read with automaticity all K
iready sight words and 90%
(115/127) 1st grade iready
sight words.
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Read fluently and pass
comprehension assessment at
DRA2 level 16 or above.
Essential comprehension and
vocabulary skills:
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Use appropriate sources to
learn word meanings
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Make, confirm, and revise
predictions before and during
reading
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Problem solve unknown words
using multiple strategies
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Quickly self-correct
significant miscues
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Monitor reading across pages
or segments
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Understand basic information
presented graphically
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Organize retelling in
sequential order
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Discuss main idea and details
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Describe a favorite part using
details from the text
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Make text to text and text to
self connections
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Identify most important event
and characters in a story
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Identify ideas, details, and
vocabulary to include in a
retelling
Essential Fluency Skills:
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Scan pages from top to
bottom to locate text
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Hold the story line while
studying pictures and graphs
Use meaning and context clues
to problem solve unknown
words
Essential Phonics skills
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Use analogies to decode new
words with similar word
families
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Decode words with beginning
and final consonant blends and
digraphs
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Decode CVCe words
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Decode simple compound
words
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Essential phonics skills:
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Recognize and produce
rhyming words
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Identify the position of
sounds in a word
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Use beginning letter sound to
problem solve words
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Segment spoken words into
syllables and count them
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Segment and blend syllables in
spoken words
Essential Research and Reasoning
skills:
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With guidance and support
recall information from a
source or experience to
answer a question
Essential phonics skills:
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Identify and isolate beginning,
middle, and final sounds in spoken
words
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Know and quickly identify lettersound relationships, all
consonants and short vowels
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Segment and blend sounds of
letters to decode simple words
like ‘mat’ and ‘sled’
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Segment two syllable words
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Use beginning letter/sound
relationships to problem-solve
words, confirm or discount word
choice
Essential Research and Reasoning Skills:
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Generate questions for inquiry
that arise from reading or
instruction
Essential Phonics skills:
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Use dominant letters/sounds in any
position to confirm or discount
word choice
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Decode one and two syllable words
by sequentially blending letter
sounds
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Use familiar blends and digraphs to
decode unknown words
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Decode words with common word
parts/chunks
Essential Research and Reasoning Skills:
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Use text features (titles,
illustrations, headings, bold type) to
locate, interpret, and use
information
Essential Research and Reasoning
skills:
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With peers, use a variety of
resources to answer questions
of interest
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Participate in shared research
of topic of interest.
Math:
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Tell and write time to the
hour. (ex. 8:00)
Count by 5’s to 100. (end of
year goal, but essential for
counting tallies and money)
Write in sequence, count, and
randomly identify #’s 0-30.
Know the name and value of
penny and nickel.
Count pennies, nickels, and
combinations of pennies and
nickels.
State the number before and
after a given number (ex. 14 is
before 15 and 16 is after 15).
Write and read simple addition
equation. (ex. 3+1=4)
Know with automaticity +1 of
any number 0-5.
Know with automaticity –math
facts within 5.
Math:
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Tell and write time to the hour
and half hour within the same
exercise (ex. 8:00, 7:30)
Measure an object to the
nearest inch
Count and write numbers 0-60 in
order
Randomly identify #’s 0-60
Count by 10s to 100 (end of year
goal, but essential for counting
money)
Identify and know the value of
penny, nickel, and dime
Count pennies, nickels, dimes, and
combinations of at least two
different coins
State the number before and
after a given number (ex. 14 is
before 15 and 16 is after 15)
Write and read simple addition
and subtraction equations (ex.
3+1=4; 5-2=3) Understand plus +,
minus -, and equal = symbols
Know with automaticity addition
facts to 10
Know with automaticity the sums
of 10
Know with automaticity
subtraction facts within 10.
Math:
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Measure an object to the nearest
inch and centimeter.
Count and write numbers 0-90 in
order.
Randomly identify #’s 0-90.
Count by 2s to 100 (end of year
goal).
Identify and know the value of
penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.
Count pennies, nickels, dimes,
quarters, and combinations of at
least two different coins.
Generate fact families (ex: 2+3=5,
3+2=5, 5-3=2, 5-2=3)
Understand plus +, minus -, <, >, and
equal = symbols.
Compare whole numbers. (ex: 5 < 8,
10 > 7, 0=0)
Know with automaticity the sums of
doubles within 20. (ex: 0+0, 1+1 . . .
10+10=20)
Math:
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Estimate lengths of objects
using standard and nonstandard measurements.
Create and solve simple + and –
story problems.
Identify, draw, and describe
2-D shapes: square, triangle,
rhombus (diamond), rectangle,
oval, and circle.
Distinguish between defining
attributes verses non-defining
attributes.
Build and draw shapes to
possess defining attributes.
Compose 2-D shapes or 3-D
shapes to create a composite
shape, and compose new
shapes from the composite
shape.
Partition circles and
rectangles into 2 or 4 equal
shares.
Describe shares using the
words halves, fourths, and
quarters
Describe the whole as two of,
or four of the equal shares.
Place Value: Read, write, and
represent whole numbers with
base-ten blocks for ones and
tens identifying digits and
expressing their value.
Answer questions and draw
conclusions based on data
represented on simple tables,
charts, and graphs.
Solve + and – with in 20 with
tools.
Writing:
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Write letters neatly on line
paper using correct form and
size.
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Leave spaces between words
and between lines.
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Write from left to right
starting at the margin, top to
bottom of a page.
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Stretch out new words slowly
writing the sounds heard
(phonetic spelling) to develop
independence.
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Use capital and lower case
letters correctly within words.
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Spell simple sight words
correctly using tools.
Writing:
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Produce correct simple sentences
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Capitalize correctly and
consistently with minor errors;
1st word of sentence, I, proper
nouns, and titles
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Use punctuation correctly some
of the time
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Apply correct spelling for most
consonant and short vowel sounds
in words
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Spell simple sight words
correctly most of the time
Writing:
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Spell simple sight words correctly.
(2 and 3 letter words)
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Properly use pronouns. (ex: I, me,
you, them they, their, anyone,
everything)
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Use common adjectives correctly in
sentences.
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Properly use common conjunctions.
(ex: and, but, or , so, because)
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Spell untaught words phonetically
using letter sounds and known
spelling rules.
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Produce a simple 3 to 4 sentence
narrative in sequence
Writing:
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Write a sequence of ‘how to’
instructions.
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Write a simple opinion piece
with sense of closure.
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Write simple informative/
explanatory text
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Write a narrative with 2 or
more sequenced events,
details and transition words
like first, next, then, and last,
providing an opening statement
and sense of closure
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With support revise and edit
writing to correct and
strengthen work
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Write questions for inquiry
that arise during discussions
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Use Graphic organizers to plan
writing.
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With support use digital tools
and collaboration of peers to
produce and publish writing