Grade 1

COMPREHENSION SKILLS AND STRATEGIES

Be able to put events in sequential order
Note story details
Understand cause and effect
Compare and contrast story elements using a Venn Diagram
Summarize a story
Be able to predict and infer
Use facts to draw conclusions
Identify topic, main idea and supporting details of a story
Locate questions and answers in a text
Write answers to questions
Categorize and classify information in a story
Know how to read a poem
Be able to read and sing a song
Develop skills for reading different kind of texts
Know how to read social studies, science and math text
Examine poetry, folktales and plays
Explain the characteristics of each genre and creates his own
Read and know how to create contractions
Identify story structure
Make a story map
Make predictions on what will happen next in the story based on what he has already read
Retell a story using the words first, next and last
Identify characters in a story
Identify story similarities and differences
Kno how to read directions
Use story details to retell a story
Classify story events as fantasy or reality
Identify topic, main idea and details of a story
Use facts from the story and previous knowledge to draw conclusions
Identify the mood of a story
Compare and contrast story characters
Retell a story in order of events read in the story

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READING

PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS

PHONEMIC AWARENESS

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LISTENING, SPEAKING AND VIEWING

Listen for the main idea in an oral presentation
Compare and contrast story elements
Understand the difference between a fact and an opinion

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VOCABULARY

Identify animal names, school words, shapes words, words for feelings, color words, words that show position, family words, sensory words, noise words, pattern words, nature words, and fruit and vegetable words
Ask and answer questions that begin with who, what, where or why

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GRAMMAR, USAGE AND MECHANICS

Know that a sentence begins with a capital letter
Know that all sentences end with a punctuation mark
Know that a period, question mark, and an exclamation mark are the punctuation marks that end a sentence

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WRITING

HANDWRITING

CREATIVE WRITING

SPELLING

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