# Grade 1: English language arts A course roadmap (english-language-arts). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 29 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/sc-ela-grade-1 Part of: [South Carolina: English language arts](https://ai.page/roadmap/sc-ela.md) Goal: South Carolina academic standards: English language arts, Grade 1 ## 1. First Grade · Evaluate and critique ideas and concepts interactively through listening and speaking. - [Listening and responding](https://ai.page/c/listening-and-responding/index.md): 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. - [Expressing & Justifying Opinions](https://ai.page/c/expressing-and-justifying-opinions/index.md): 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. - [Forming Capital Letters](https://ai.page/c/forming-capital-letters/index.md): 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. - [Responding to Writing Feedback](https://ai.page/c/responding-to-writing-feedback/index.md): 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 - [Revising and editing](https://ai.page/c/revising-and-editing/index.md): 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. - [Grammar words: letter, word, sentence](https://ai.page/c/grammar-words-letter-word-sentence/index.md): 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. - [Narrative Writing](https://ai.page/c/narrative-writing/index.md): 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. - [Basic Informational Writing](https://ai.page/c/basic-informational-writing/index.md): 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. - [Structured Opinion Writing](https://ai.page/c/structured-opinion-writing/index.md): 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. - [Shared Research Projects](https://ai.page/c/shared-research-projects/index.md): 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. - [Text Features & Presentation](https://ai.page/c/text-features-and-presentation/index.md): 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. - [Phonics Vocabulary](https://ai.page/c/phonics-vocabulary/index.md): 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. - [Author's word choices](https://ai.page/c/author-s-word-choices/index.md): 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. - [Discussing and Questioning New Words](https://ai.page/c/discussing-and-questioning-new-words/index.md): 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. - [Main Ideas & Note-Taking](https://ai.page/c/main-ideas-and-note-taking/index.md): 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. - [Non-Fiction Text Features](https://ai.page/c/non-fiction-text-features/index.md): Recognise different non-fiction text structures and features (headings, contents, glossary, index), understanding how texts are organised to present information - [Different Types of Texts](https://ai.page/c/different-types-of-texts/index.md): 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. - [Why the author wrote it](https://ai.page/c/why-the-author-wrote-it/index.md): 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. - [Characters' Viewpoints and Responses](https://ai.page/c/characters-viewpoints-and-responses/index.md): 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. - [Main Topic & Key Details](https://ai.page/c/main-topic-and-key-details/index.md): 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 - [Retelling Stories with Structure](https://ai.page/c/retelling-stories-with-structure/index.md): 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. - [Characters, settings, and events](https://ai.page/c/characters-settings-and-events/index.md): 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. - [Reading with Expression and Accuracy](https://ai.page/c/reading-with-expression-and-accuracy/index.md): 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. - [Knowing all letters](https://ai.page/c/knowing-all-letters/index.md): 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 - [Syllables](https://ai.page/c/syllables/index.md): Count, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words; divide written words into syllables as an aid to reading and spelling - [Syllables (age 6+)](https://ai.page/c/syllables-age-6/index.md): 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. - [Understanding print](https://ai.page/c/understanding-print/index.md): 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. - [Onsets & Rimes](https://ai.page/c/onsets-and-rimes/index.md): 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 - [Rhyming words](https://ai.page/c/rhyming-words/index.md): Recognise and produce rhyming words; join in with predictable phrases and rhymes in stories and poems; learn to appreciate and recite poems by heart ## Health: 0 of 100 Of its 29 own concepts: 0 have an explanation, 0 have practice, 0 have a measurement question, 0 have a checked version. Findings (each is a task for anyone's AI): - Listening and responding has no explanation yet - Expressing & Justifying Opinions has no explanation yet - Forming Capital Letters has no explanation yet - Responding to Writing Feedback has no explanation yet - Revising and editing has no explanation yet - Grammar words: letter, word, sentence has no explanation yet - Narrative Writing has no explanation yet - Basic Informational Writing has no explanation yet - Structured Opinion Writing has no explanation yet - Shared Research Projects has no explanation yet - Text Features & Presentation has no explanation yet - Phonics Vocabulary has no explanation yet - Author's word choices has no explanation yet - Discussing and Questioning New Words has no explanation yet - Main Ideas & Note-Taking comes before Non-Fiction Text Features, which it needs - Main Ideas & Note-Taking has no explanation yet - Non-Fiction Text Features has no explanation yet - Different Types of Texts has no explanation yet - Why the author wrote it has no explanation yet - Characters' Viewpoints and Responses comes before Retelling Stories with Structure, which it needs - Characters' Viewpoints and Responses has no explanation yet - Main Topic & Key Details has no explanation yet - Retelling Stories with Structure comes before Characters, settings, and events, which it needs - Retelling Stories with Structure has no explanation yet - Characters, settings, and events has no explanation yet - Reading with Expression and Accuracy has no explanation yet - Knowing all letters comes before Understanding print, which it needs - Knowing all letters has no explanation yet - Syllables has no explanation yet - Syllables (age 6+) has no explanation yet - Understanding print has no explanation yet - Onsets & Rimes has no explanation yet - Rhyming words has no explanation yet Credit: The structure of South Carolina academic standards: English language arts (https://ed.sc.gov/instruction/standards-learning/english-language-arts/standards/2023-sc-ccr-ela-standards-approved/); concepts from the Marble Skill Taxonomy (v1), © Generative Spark, Inc. (withmarble.com), text CC BY-SA 4.0, database ODbL 1.0: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy, mapped to its standards by Marble.