Standards of Expected Student Achievement

First Grade Content Standards

Language Arts

1999 - 2000

By the end of FIRST GRADE

Reading

Students will:

•Read independently every day in class

•Predict words, story events, and story endings

•Choose a book at independent level

•Use reading strategies: meaning, word order, letter sounds, context, rereading to clarify

•Read consonants, blends, long and short vowel sounds to "sound out"

•Use finger pointing to match spoken word with written word

•Use familiar words to read unfamiliar words; word families, roots, endings

•Read at least 50 common regular sight words

•Retell text including beginning, middle and end of story

•Identify main characters, setting, and plot

•Read familiar books fluently aloud

Speaking and Listening

Students will:

•Demonstrate good manners

•Respond to who, what, where, when, and how questions

•Relate an event in sequential order

•Recognize syllables in a word (e.g., fam-i-ly, cook-ie)

•Recite personal information (birth date, telephone number and address)

•Respond to literature and participate in class discussions

Writing

Students will:

•Write daily for 30 minutes on self-selected topics

•Writing Domains: Autobiographical Incident, Report of Information, Story and Observational Writing

•Create stories orally and through pictures

•Prewrite, draft, edit, and sometimes make a final copy

•Use correct punctuation: question mark, exclamation point, period

•Use correct capitalization: peoples' names, I, beginning of sentence

•Spell and use 50 high frequency words

•Use temporary spelling for unknown words

•Print upper and lower case letters legibly

•Use spacing between words