CHINA ELEMENTARY

First Grade Promotion Requirements

In order to be promoted to second grade, students are expected to reach benchmark levels in the following areas:

SIGHT WORDS: Know the first 100 Dolch sight words.

ORAL READING FLUENCY: Students should be reading in a level 16 reader at a minimum of 45 words per minute.

DIBELS & TPRI reading inventories are used with first graders at China Elementary. Students are expected to meet benchmark standards on these tests. Information about these tests can be found on the China Elementary webpage under Staff Webpages/ ELI/ Literacy Helps. You may also find additional information about DIBELS testing and helping your child learn to read at .

MATH: Students will develop fluency with TEMI-PM key foundational skills: magnitude comparison, number sequence, place value, and addition/subtraction combinations. More specifically, students will count and write numbers to 100 and skip count by twos, fives, and tens. Students will know by memory addition facts to sums of 10 as well as subtraction facts from 10. The fluency expectation is that students be able to work 20 of these facts in less than one minute.

Students are also expected to master the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for first grade. Below,

we have listed major goals for you; however, a full set of elementary TEKS (including those in science and social studies) is available to you at the following website: .

FIRST GRADE ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS TEKS

Listening and Speaking Goals: Students will be able to:

  • Listen and engage in oral language experiences.
  • Listen critically and responsively from a variety of sources. Determine a purpose for listening such as gathering information and identifying literary language.
  • Listen and speak to gain knowledge of his/her own culture and others.
  • Use verbal and non-verbal communication in effective ways to convey a message.
  • Use grammatically correct language to communicate ideas.
  • Ask and answer relevant questions in group discussions.
  • Develop, revise, and refine drafts.
  • Spell proficiently using patterns, inflected endings, single syllable words and conventional spelling of familiar words in final draft.
  • Use resources to find correct spellings and synonyms.
  • Compose meaningful texts by applying knowledge of grammar and usage.
  • Evaluate his/her own writing and writing of others.
  • Determine if the writing achieves its purpose.
  • Respond constructively to the writing of others.
  • Use writing as a tool to research and record data.
  • Dictate questions and or statements for research.
  • Investigate and research varied media to gain personal knowledge.

Writing Goals: Students will be able to:

  • Write full name, alphabet, and other relevant words using correct formation, size, spacing, capitalization and punctuation.
  • Increase control of penmanship.
  • Use phonological knowledge and basic penmanship skills to create a readable message.
  • Write for a variety of audiences and purposes using various writing forms such as but not limited to invitations, poems, letters, etc…
  • Dictate and write meaningful messages.
  • Write discover, develop, refine and communicate ideas through various writing forms.
  • Select and use writing processes to compose original text.
  • Choose and adapt spoken language to appropriate situations and occasions.
  • Present dramatic interpretations of various media such as stories, poems, and plays.
  • Learn school vocabulary such as colors, numbers, shapes, directions, and more.
  • Use vocabulary to summarize, clarify, and support messages orally or with the use of props.

Reading Goals: Students will be able to:

  • Recognize correct spelling of word, punctuation and capitalization.
  • Recognize that print represents spoken language.
  • Recognize and differentiate aspects of the alphabet including upper/lowercase recognition, sequencing, vowel and consonant recognition.
  • Identify the differences between letters, words, sentences, and paragraphs in written material
  • Identify parts of a book.
  • Recognize and follow print in various texts.
  • Demonstrate an understanding that spoken language is composed of sequences of sounds (phonological awareness).
  • Identify individual phonemes, blends, rhymes, syllables, and common word patterns.
  • Distinguish initial, medial, and final sounds.
  • Apply letter/sound knowledge to decode written language.
  • Apply knowledge of word patterns, blends, and letter correspondence to decode text.
  • Use letter/sound correspondence to decode and recognize words in texts.
  • Recognize, read, and re-read high frequency words.
  • Recognize common word and syllable patterns.
  • Use word identification strategies and structural clues to recognize and decode words.
  • Read orally with fluency in multi-leveled texts.
  • Read approximately 45 wpm.
  • Select own reading material.
  • Read from varied sources.
  • Acquire knowledge from informational texts.
  • Increase vocabulary through listening activities and concrete experiences.
  • Identify nouns and verbs.
  • Use and develop strategies to comprehend selections read aloud and/or independently.
  • Retell/act out events from stories/selections.
  • Make and explain inferences from texts.
  • Listen and respond actively to various selections read aloud. Connect ideas and themes.
  • Identify how illustrations contribute to texts.
  • Recognize and distinguish characteristics of various texts.
  • Identify roles of an author and illustrator.
  • Recognize story structure including characters, setting, and plot.
  • Research topics and draw conclusions from a variety of sources.
  • Locate informational parts of a book.
  • Locate various areas in the library/media center.
  • Increase multi-cultural knowledge in texts.

FIRST GRADE MATHEMATICS TEKS

Numbers and Operation Goals: Students will be able to:

  • Use whole numbers to describe, order, compare, and write quantities of numbers to 99 using sets of concrete and pictorial models.
  • Use words and numbers to identify and compare the value of coins.
  • Use pairs of whole numbers to describe fractional parts of a whole object or a set of objects.
  • Recognize and solve addition (sums to 18) and subtraction problems with concrete models extending to corresponding number sentences.
  • Create sets of tens and ones using concrete objects.

Patterns, Relationships, and Algebraic thinking Goals: Students will be able to:

  • Identify, describe, and extend pictorial and numerical patterns.
  • Recognize patterns in numbers and patterns in related addition and subtraction sentences.
  • Compare and order whole numbers using place value.

Geometry and Spatial Reasoning Goals: Students will be able to:

  • Use attributes to identify, compare and contrast shapes and solids.
  • Combine geometric shapes to make new geometric shapes using concrete models.

Measurement Goals: Students will be able to:

  • Use nonstandard units to describe length, weight and capacity estimating and measuring actual measurement.
  • Describe the relationship between the size of the unit and number of units needed.
  • Describe time on a clock by hour and half hour.
  • Describe that time can measure by hour and half-hour and order events.
  • Describe that time can measure by comparing the time required.
  • Recognize temperature as hot or cold.

Probability and Statistics Goals: Students will be able to:

  • Collect, sort, and display data in real object bar graphs, picture graphs, and bar type graphs.
  • Identify events as certain or impossible.

Underlying Processes and Mathematical Tools Goals: Students will be able to:

  • Use a problem-solving model demonstrating understanding the problem.
  • Identify and relate mathematical language to everyday situations.

Explain and record observations and use logical reasoning using various media including objects, words, pictures, numbers, and technology.