Readers Workshop (While Reading Fiction and Nonfiction Text)
First Grade Quarter 1 Expectations
Below are the essential outcomes (goals) your child will be demonstrating that they know and are able to do. In addition to many skills that teachers are working on with your child. These skills and concepts are what teachers will be supporting your child to consistently show mastery/proficiency (3).
Balanced Literacy
Readers Workshop (While reading fiction and nonfiction text):
*Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
*Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g. first word, capitalization, ending
punctuation).
*Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, commas, and sounds. (phonemes)
*Orally produce single syllable words by blending sounds (ohonemes, including consonant blends.)
*Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and single sounds (phonemes) in spoken single syllable
words.
*Decode regularly spelled one syllable words.
*Identify words and phrases in stories in poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
*Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting or events.
*Compare or contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
Informational Text
Science:
*Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
*Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
*Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
* Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
Social Studies:
*Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
*Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
*Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
* Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
Language (a.k.a. English or grammar in daily writing and science and social studies writing)
*Sort words into categories (e.g. colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories
represent.
Speaking and Listening
*Follow agreed upon rules for discussion (e.g. listening to others with care, speaking one at a time
about the topics or texts under discussion).
*Ask questions to clear up any confusion about the topics and text under discussion.
*Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or
through other media.
*Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or
clarify something that is not understood.
*Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and
feelings.
*Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation.
Math
Unit 1: Early Number Activities
Unit 2: Operations and Simple Equations
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
*Use addition within 20 to solve word problems involving situations with unknowns in all positions of;
adding to, putting together, and comparing.
*Use subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations with unknowns in all positions of;
taking from, taking apart and comparing.
*Retell counting to addition and subtraction (e.g. counting on by 2 to add 2).
Number and Operations in Base Ten
*Count to 120 (starting at any number less than 120)
*Read numerals 0 – 120.
*Write numbers 0-120.
*Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-120.
*Relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.
Characteristics of a Successful Learner
- Independence
- Responsibility
- Self Awareness