1st Grade Language Arts Curriculum Map

2012-2013 School Year

(First Grade Team: Jamie Mulhearn, Julie Edwards, Courtney Brickey, Zac Stumbo, Regina Sutton)

Unit 1: All About Us
Unit 1.1 We Are Special /

Reading Standards for Literature

Key Ideas and Details

2. Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central
message or lesson.
  1. Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
  2. I can retell important events in the beginning, middle, and ending of a story.
  3. I can tell about the characters and setting in a story.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

  1. With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
  2. I can read first grade level text.

Reading Standards for Informational Text

Craft and Structure

6. Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and
information provided by the words in a text.
  • I can use pictures, captions and text to help me answer questions about my reading.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

Print Concepts

  1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
  2. Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).
  3. I can tell the difference between letters, words, and sentences.
  4. I can tell about capitalization and punctuation in a sentence.

Phonics and Word Recognition

3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
  1. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  2. I can sound out simple words.
  3. I can read words with short vowels.

Writing Standards

Text Types and Purposes

  1. Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
  2. I can write a story with 2 or more sequenced events using transition words and a closing sentence.

Language Standards

Conventions of Standard English

  1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  2. Print all upper- and lowercase letters.
  3. I can print all upper and lower case letters.

Unit 1.2 Ready, Set, Move! /

Reading Standards for Literature

Key Ideas and Details

2. Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central
message or lesson.
  • I can retell important events in the beginning, middle, and ending of a story.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

  1. With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
  2. I can read first grade level text.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

Print Concepts

1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
a. Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization,
ending punctuation).
  • I can tell the difference between letters, words, and sentences.
  • I can tell about capitalization and punctuation in a sentence.

Phonics and Word Recognition

3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  • I can sound out simple words.
  • I can read words with short vowels.

Writing Standards

Text Types and Purposes

  1. Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
  2. I can write a story with 2 or more sequenced events using transition words and a closing sentence.

Language Standards

Conventions of Standard English

  1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  2. Print all upper- and lowercase letters.
  3. I can print all upper and lower case letters.

Unit 1.3 Growing Up /

Reading Standards for Literature

Key Ideas and Details

2. Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central
message or lesson.
  • I can retell important events in the beginning, middle, and ending of a story.

Reading Standards for Informational Text

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

  1. With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade
  2. I can read first grade level text.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

Print Concepts

1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
a. Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization,
ending punctuation).
  • I can tell the difference between letters, words, and sentences.
  • I can tell about capitalization and punctuation in a sentence.

Phonics and Word Recognition

3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  • I can sound out simple words.
  • I can read words with short vowels.

Writing Standards

Text Types and Purposes

  1. Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
  2. I can write descriptive sentences.

Language Standards

Conventions of Standard English

  1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  2. Print all upper- and lowercase letters.
  3. I can print all upper and lower case letters.
  1. Produce and extend complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.
  1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
  1. Use end punctuation for sentences.
  2. I can use punctuation correctly when writing.

Unit 1.4 Pets /

Reading Standards for Literature

Craft and Structure

5. Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give
information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
  • I can indentify fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, realistic fiction, and poetry.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

  1. With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
  2. I can read first grade level text.

Reading Standards for Informational Text

Craft and Structure

  1. Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, table of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.
  2. I can use headings, table of contents, and glossaries to help me answer questions about my reading.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

Print Concepts

1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
a. Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization,
ending punctuation).
  • I can tell the difference between letters, words, and sentences.
  • I can tell about capitalization and punctuation in a sentence.

Phonological Awareness

  1. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
  1. Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.
  2. I can blend 2, 3, or 4 sounds into words.

Writing Standards

Text Types and Purposes

  1. Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
  2. I can write descriptive sentences.

Language Standards

Conventions of Standard English

  1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  2. Print all upper- and lowercase letters.
  3. I can print all upper and lower case letters.
  1. Produce and extend complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.
  2. I can write a complete sentence.
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling when writing.
  1. Use end punctuation for sentences.
  2. I can use punctuation correctly when writing.

Unit 1.5 Teamwork /

Reading Standards for Informational Text

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

  1. Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
  2. I can identify main idea and details.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

  1. With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade
  2. I can read first grade level text.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

Print Concepts

1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
a. Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization,
ending punctuation).
  • I can tell the difference between letters, words, and sentences.
  • I can tell about capitalization and punctuation in a sentence.

Phonological Awareness

  1. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
  1. Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.
  2. I can blend 2, 3, or 4 sounds into words.

Writing Standards

Text Types and Purposes

  1. Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
  2. I can write an opinion story in which I state an opinion, give a reason and write a closing sentence.

Language Standards

Conventions of Standard English

  1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  2. Print all upper- and lowercase letters.
  3. I can print all upper and lower case letters.
  1. Produce and extend complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.
  2. I can write a complete sentence.
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling when writing.
  1. Use end punctuation for sentences.
  2. I can use punctuation correctly when writing.

Unit 2: Outside My Door
Unit 2.1 Animal Families /

Reading Standards for Informational Text

Key Ideas and Details

  1. Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
  2. I can tell the main idea and details in informational text.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

  1. With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade
  2. I can read first grade level text.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

  1. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
  1. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  2. I can sound out simple words.
  3. I can read words with short vowels.

Writing Standards

Research to Build and Present Knowledge

  1. Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of “how-to” books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions).
  2. I can take part in shared research and write about what I learned.

Language Standards

Conventions of Standard English

  1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  1. Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.
  2. I can identify and use nouns correctly when writing.

Unit 2.2 Helping Out /

Reading Standards for Literature

Key Ideas and Details

  1. Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
  2. I can retell important events in the beginning, middle, and ending of a story.

Craft and Structure

  1. Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
  2. I can indentify fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, realistic fiction, and poetry.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

  1. With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
  2. I can read first grade level text.

Reading Standards for Informational Text

Craft and Structure

  1. Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.
  2. I can use pictures, captions and text to help me answer questions about my reading.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

  1. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  • I can sound out simple words.
  • I can read words with short vowels.

Writing Standards

Research to Build and Present Knowledge

  1. Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of “how-to” books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions).
  2. I can take part in shared research and write about what I learned.

Language Standards

Conventions of Standard English

  1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  1. Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (e.g., He hops; We hop).
  2. I can use parts of speech correctly when writing and speaking (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, conjunctions, articles and prepositions).

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

  1. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
  1. Use frequently occurring affixes as a clue to the meaning of a word.
  2. I can read and understand words with added beginnings and endings –ing)

Unit 2.3 Where Animals Live /

Reading Standards for Informational Text

Key Ideas and Details

  1. Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
  2. I can tell the main idea and details in informational text.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

  1. With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade
  2. I can read first grade level text.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

  1. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
  2. Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant diagraphs.
  3. I can read sh, and th in words.

Writing Standards

Text Types and Purposes

  1. Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
  2. I can write descriptive sentences.

Language Standards

Conventions of Standard English

  1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  1. Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (e.g., He hops; We hop).
  2. I can use parts of speech correctly when writing and speaking (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, conjunctions, articles and prepositions).

Unit 2.4 Sing and Dance /

Reading Standards for Literature

Key Ideas and Details

2. Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central
message or lesson.
  • I can retell important events in the beginning, middle, and ending of a story.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

  1. With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Reading Standards for Informational Text

Craft and Structure

  1. Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, table of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.
  2. I can use headings, table of contents, and glossaries to help me answer questions about my reading.
  3. I can read first grade level text.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

Phonological Awareness

  1. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
  1. Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.
  2. I can blend 2, 3, or 4 sounds into words.

Writing Standards

Text Types and Purposes

  1. Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
  2. I can write a story with 2 or more sequenced events using transition words and a closing sentence.

Language Standards

Conventions of Standard English

  1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  1. Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.
  2. I can identify and use nouns correctly when writing.
  1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
  1. Capitalize dates and names of people.
  2. I can capitalize proper nouns.

Unit 2.5 Let’s Laugh /

Reading Standards for Literature

Key Ideas and Details

2. Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central
message or lesson.
  • I can retell important events in the beginning, middle, and ending of a story.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

  1. With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

Phonological Awareness

  1. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
  1. Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.
  2. I can blend 2, 3, or 4 sounds into words.

Writing Standards

Text Types and Purposes

  1. Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
  2. I can write a story with 2 or more sequenced events using transition words and a closing sentence.

Language Standards

Conventions of Standard English

  1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  1. Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.
  2. I can identify and use nouns correctly when writing.
  1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
  1. Capitalize dates and names of people.
  2. I can capitalize proper nouns.

Unit 3: Let’s Connect
Unit 3.1 Being Friends /

Reading Standards for Literature