Reading - First Grade
Content Standard: 1.0
The student will develop the reading and listening skills necessary for word recognition, comprehension, interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and appreciation of print and non-print text.
Learning Expectations:
- 1.01 Develop oral language.
- 1.02 Develop listening skills.
- 1.03 Demonstrate knowledge of concepts of print.
- 1.04 Develop and maintain phonemic awareness.
- 1.05 Develop and use decoding strategies to read unfamiliar words.
- 1.06 Read to develop fluency, expression, accuracy and confidence.
- 1.07 Develop and extend reading vocabulary.
- 1.08 Develop and use pre-reading strategies.
- 1.09 Use active comprehension strategies to derive meaning while reading and check for understanding after reading.
- 1.10 Introduce informational skills to facilitate learning.
- 1.11 Develop skills to facilitate reading to learn in a variety of content areas.
- 1.12 Read independently for a variety of purposes.
- 1.13 Experience various literary genres.
- 1.14 Develop and maintain a motivation to read.
Accomplishments:
- 1.1.01 Develop oral language.
- Show evidence of expanding oral language through vocabulary growth.
- Implement rules for conversation (e.g., raise hands, take turns, focus attention on speaker).
- Understand, follow and give oral directions.
- Participate in group discussions.
- Participate in creative responses to text (e.g., choral reading, discussion and drama).
- Respond to questions from teacher and other group members.
- Begin to narrate a personal story.
- Dramatize or retell what has been learned, heard or experienced.
- Use familiar texts for recitations.
- 1.1.02 Develop listening skills.
- Listen attentively to speaker for specific information.
- Use appropriate listening skills (e.g., do not interrupt, face speaker, ask questions).
- Listen and respond to a variety of media (e.g., books, audio tapes, videos).
- Recognize the difference between formal and informal languages.
- Understand and follow simple, three step oral directions.
- 1.1.03 Demonstrate knowledge of concepts of print.
- Understand that printed materials provide information.
- Demonstrate directionality by reading left to right and top to bottom.
- Track print when being read to aloud.
- Read and explain own writings and drawings.
- Identify parts of a book (e.g., title page, table of contents).
- Recognize that groups of words make sentences.
- Understand punctuation (e.g., period, question mark).
- 1.1.04 Develop and maintain phonemic awareness.
- Recognize words that begin with the same sounds.
- Recognize words that end with the same sounds.
- Identify rhyming words.
- Blend sounds together to form one-syllable words.
- Segment one-syllable words into sounds.
- Change targeted sounds to modify or change words.
- Show awareness of syllables by clapping, counting or moving objects.
- 1.1.05 Develop and use decoding strategies.
- Use knowledge of letter-sound correspondence knowledge and structural analysis to decode grade appropriate words.
- Decode phonetically regular, one-syllable words.
- Use decoding strategies, such as sounding out words, comparing similar words, breaking words into smaller words, and looking for word parts (e.g., compound words, word families, blends, and digraphs).
- Apply long and short vowel rules when decoding.
- Begin to decode unknown words automatically.
- 1.1.06 Read to develop fluency, expression, accuracy and confidence.
- Begin to read orally with accuracy and confidence using appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression.
- Reflect punctuation of written text while reading orally.
- Participate in guided, oral readings.
- Demonstrate the automatic recognition of high frequency words.
- Read with increasing fluency and confidence from a variety of texts through paired readings, shared reading, choral reading, teacher-led reading, and reading from tapes.
- Read independently daily.
- Recite familiar texts to develop fluency, expression, accuracy and confidence.
- 1.1.07 Develop and extend reading vocabulary.
- Build vocabulary by listening to literature, participating in discussions, and reading self-selected texts.
- Build vocabulary through frequent read-alouds.
- Participate in shared reading.
- Manipulate word families, word walls, and word sorts.
- Match oral words to written words.
- Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words by using a picture dictionary, picture clues, context clues and structural analysis.
- Add endings to base words (e.g., -s, -ed, -es, -ing).
- Identify simple abbreviations.
- 1.1.08 Develop and use pre-reading strategies.
- Develop a purpose for listening/reading.
- Participate in activities to build background knowledge to derive meaning from text.
- Make predictions about text.
- Use illustrations to preview text.
- 1.1.09 Use active comprehension strategies to derive meaning while reading and check for understanding after reading.
- Derive meaning while reading by
- asking questions about text.
- recognizing errors in reading as they occur and self-correct.
- participating in discussions about text and relating to personal experiences.
- creating graphic organizers (e.g., charts, lists).
- predicting and adjusting outcomes during read-alouds.
- Check for understanding after reading by
- recalling three to four step sequence of events.
- retelling stories in their own words using sequencing words (i.e. first, next, last).
- drawing conclusions based on what has been read.
- recognizing main idea in pictures, picture books and texts.
- 1.1.10 Introduce informational skills to facilitate learning.
- Recognize the family and community as sources of information.
- Recognize a variety of print items as sources of information (e.g. books, magazines, maps, charts, and graphs).
- Recognize sources of information (e.g., books, maps, graphs, charts).
- Use graphic organizers to aid in understanding material from informational text (e.g., charts, graphs, web).
- Visit libraries to use and view appropriate material.
- 1.1.11 Develop skills to facilitate reading to learn in a variety of content areas.
- Begin to develop content specific vocabulary.
- Use text features to locate information (e.g., maps, charts, illustrations and table of contents).
- 1.1.12 Read independently for a variety of purposes. (At this level, the student will explore as an emergent reader.)
- Read for literary experience.
- Read to gain information.
- Read to perform a task.
- Read for enjoyment.
- Read to expand vocabulary.
- Read to build fluency.
- 1.1.13 Experience various literary and media genres.
- Read and view various literary (e.g., picture books, storybooks, fairy tales, poetry, lyrics to songs) and media (e.g., illustrations, the arts, films, videos) genres.
- Explore non-fiction.
- Identify characters, events, and settings in print and non-print text.
- Recognize main character(s) in print and non-print text.
- Determine whether a selection is real or fantasy.
- Recognize rhyme in Mother Goose and other rhyming books.
- Retell a story in correct sequence (e.g., using books, videos, films).
- Determine the problem in a story and discover its solution through classroom discussion.
- 1.1.14 Develop and maintain a motivation to read.
- Visit libraries/media centers and regularly check out materials.
- Share storybooks, poems, newspapers, and environmental print.
- Explore a wide variety of literature through read alouds, tapes, and independent reading.
- Identify favorite stories, informational text, authors, and illustrators.
- Engage in a variety of literacy activities voluntarily (e.g., self-select books and stories).
- Choose to read as a leisure activity.

