Reading Foundational Skills

• Understand print concepts such as recognizing the distinguishing features of a sentence (first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).
• Distinguish long from short vowels.
• Produce single-syllable words by blending sounds.
• Isolate and pronounce initial, middle, and final phonemes in spoken single-syllable words.
• Segment spoken single-syllable words into individual phonemes.
• Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
• Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
• Know final -e and common vowel team conventions.
• Determine the number of syllables in a printed word.
• Decode simple two-syllable words.
• Read words with inflectional endings and affixes.
• Recognize and read 1st grade sight words.
• Read 1st grade text with purpose and understanding.
• Meet 1st grade phonics, phonemic awareness, and phonological awareness objectives.

Reading Literature

• Ask and answer questions about key details.
• Retell stories and demonstrate understanding of the central message or lesson.
• Describe characters, settings, and major events
• Identify feelings words.
• Explain differences between fiction and non-fiction texts.
• Identify the narrator and point of view (who is telling the story?).
• Use illustrations and textual details to describe characters, setting, or events.
• Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
• With prompting and support, read 1st grade prose and poetry.

Language

• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases.
• Use sentence-level context as a clue to meaning.
• Use frequently occurring affixes as a clue to meaning.
• Identify frequently occurring root words and their inflectional forms.
• Understand word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
• Sort words into categories.
• Define words by category and one or more key attributes.
• Identify real-life connections between words and their use.
• Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs and adjectives.

Reading Informational

• Ask and answer questions about key details.
• Identify the main topic and retell key details.
• Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information.
• Ask and answer questions to clarify the meaning of unknown words.
• Know and use various text features (headings, tables of contents, glossaries, menus, icons, etc...) to locate key facts or information.
• Distinguish between information provided by pictures and information provided by words.
• Use illustrations and details to describe key ideas.
• Identify author reasoning.
• Compare and contrast two texts on the same topic
• With prompting and support, read 1st grade informational texts.