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How to learn Grade 1: English language arts

South Carolina academic standards: English language arts, Grade 1

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1. First Grade · Evaluate and critique ideas and concepts interactively through listening and speaking.

  1. Listening and responding: Listen and respond appropriately to adults and peers; follow agreed-upon rules for discussion such as listening to others and taking turns speaking

2. First Grade · Organize and communicate ideas through a range of formats to engage a variety of audiences.

  1. Expressing & Justifying Opinions: Articulate and justify answers, arguments, and opinions; participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, and debates

3. First Grade · Write independently and legibly for a variety of tasks and purposes.

  1. Forming Capital Letters: Form capital letters correctly; print many upper- and lowercase letters legibly

4. First Grade · Revise writing to improve clarity and enhance style appropriate to audience, purpose, and task.

  1. Responding to Writing Feedback: With teacher guidance, re-read own writing aloud to check it sounds right; listen and respond to questions and suggestions from teacher or peers to add detail, clarify meaning, and strengthen writing — this is the scaffolded beginning of writing self-evaluation, not an independent skill
  2. Revising and editing: Proof-read own writing to check for errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation; evaluate and revise writing with teacher/peer support, re-reading to ensure meaning is clear and tense is consistent

5. First Grade · Demonstrate command of standard English grammar and conventions when writing.

  1. Grammar words: letter, word, sentence: Use basic grammatical terminology when discussing reading and writing: letter, capital letter, word, singular, plural, sentence, punctuation, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark

6. First Grade · Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences using effective techniques.

  1. Narrative Writing: Write narratives with developed settings, characters and plot, using dialogue and description to develop experiences and show character responses to situations

7. First Grade · Write informative/expository texts to analyze and explain complex ideas and information.

  1. Basic Informational Writing: Compose informative or explanatory texts that introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section

8. First Grade · Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

  1. Structured Opinion Writing: Compose opinion pieces that introduce a topic, state a clear point of view, provide organised reasons linked with connecting words, and include a concluding statement or section

9. First Grade · Use critical thinking skills to investigate, evaluate, and synthesize a variety of sources to obtain and refine knowledge.

  1. Shared Research Projects: Participate in shared research and writing projects; recall information from experiences or gather information from sources to answer a question

10. First Grade · Evaluate and critique multimedia presentations of a text or subject, including their impact on an audience.

  1. Text Features & Presentation: Identify how language choices, text structure and presentational features (illustrations, diagrams, bold print, layout) contribute to the overall meaning and effect of a text

11. First Grade · Build and apply a range of academic vocabulary, as well as grade-level appropriate morphology to apply to reading, writing, and speaking.

  1. Phonics Vocabulary: Know and use the vocabulary of phonics and word structure — phoneme, grapheme, GPC (grapheme-phoneme correspondence), blend, segment, digraph, CVC, vowel, consonant, syllable, root word, suffix, prefix, and homophone — and understand that these words describe the building blocks that phonics instruction is built on

12. First Grade · Analyze word relationships and nuances in word meanings within literary and informational texts.

  1. Author's word choices: Recognise how an author's deliberate choices — of words, structure, tone, and perspective — create particular effects on you as a reader

13. First Grade · Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases.

  1. Discussing and Questioning New Words: Ask and answer questions about unknown words in texts; discuss word meanings and link new vocabulary to words already known

14. First Grade · Summarize and paraphrase text to support comprehension and understanding.

  1. Main Ideas & Note-Taking: Identify main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarise them; retrieve and record information from non-fiction texts using notes, tables or other methods

15. First Grade · Evaluate and critique how an author uses words, phrases, and text structures to craft text.

  1. Non-Fiction Text Features: Recognise different non-fiction text structures and features (headings, contents, glossary, index), understanding how texts are organised to present information
  2. Different Types of Texts: Recognise common types of texts (storybooks, poems, non-fiction); name the author and illustrator and define the role of each in telling or presenting a text

16. First Grade · Evaluate and critique how an author's perspective and purpose shape style and meaning within and across informational texts.

  1. Why the author wrote it: Distinguish one's own point of view from that of the author of an informational text and identify the author's purpose

17. First Grade · Evaluate how an author's choice of point of view or perspective shapes style and meaning within and across literary texts.

  1. Characters' Viewpoints and Responses: Identify and compare characters' points of view, recognise who is narrating a story, describe how characters respond to events and challenges, and compare characters' experiences across different stories or versions of the same story

18. First Grade · Evaluate and critique the development of themes and central ideas within and across texts.

  1. Main Topic & Key Details: Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph informational text, determine the focus of specific paragraphs, and explain how key details support the main idea
  2. Retelling Stories with Structure: Retell stories including key details in sequence, describe characters, settings, and major events using evidence from the text, and describe the overall structure of a story (beginning, middle, ending)

19. First Grade · Evaluate and critique key literary elements that enhance and deepen meaning within and across texts.

  1. Characters, settings, and events: Identify characters, settings, and major events in stories; become familiar with key stories, fairy tales, and traditional tales and retell them with key details in sequence

20. First Grade · Read and reread grade-appropriate texts with accuracy and expression at an appropriate rate to support comprehension.

  1. Reading with Expression and Accuracy: Read aloud with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression (prosody), re-reading familiar texts to build fluency and confidence, and using context to self-correct

21. First Grade · Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding and encoding words.

  1. Knowing all letters: Recognise and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet; name the letters in order and use letter names to distinguish between alternative spellings
  2. Syllables: Count, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words; divide written words into syllables as an aid to reading and spelling
  3. Syllables (age 6+): Decode words of two or more syllables by breaking them into syllable chunks, applying knowledge that every syllable must contain a vowel sound, and blending the parts together

22. First Grade · Demonstrate knowledge of the organization and basic concepts of print.

  1. Understanding print: Demonstrate understanding that print carries meaning, follows left-to-right top-to-bottom directionality, and is organised page by page in books

23. First Grade · Demonstrate early phonological awareness to basic phonemic awareness in spoken words.

  1. Onsets & Rimes: Blend and segment onsets and rimes in single-syllable words; isolate and pronounce individual phonemes (initial, medial, final) in CVC words; add or substitute phonemes to make new words
  2. Rhyming words: Recognise and produce rhyming words; join in with predictable phrases and rhymes in stories and poems; learn to appreciate and recite poems by heart