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Grade 1 Expectations
What we expect our students to know and be able to do (with consistency and mastery) at the end of this school year.
English Language Arts
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- Students listen actively and respond appropriately.
- Students recall story events and relate personal experiences in sequence.
- Students understand and acquire grade level vocabulary using appropriate strategies.
- Students use Standard English grammar when speaking.
Decoding
- Students use various strategies to understand words.
- Students use letter sound knowledge to read text.
Comprehension
- Students make predictions and identify main idea in a text.
- Students use comprehension strategies to read and understand text.
- Students recall story events in sequence.
Strategic
- Students differentiate between fiction and non-fiction text.
- Students compare and contrast styles of authors and illustrators.
Literary Response and Analysis
Students identify different types of literature and relate to personal experiences.
Writing: Topic Development
- Students understand and demonstrate that a sentence is a complete thought, beginning with a capital letter and ending with correct punctuation.
- Students write for different audiences and purposes.
- Students arrange events in order.
Writing: Conventions
Mechanics
- Students use grade appropriate grammar, capitalization, and punctuation.
Spelling
- Students apply grade appropriate spelling strategies.
Penmanship
- Students print upper and lower case letters legibly, separating words with spaces.
Mathematics
Number Sense and Computation
- Students know, count, read and write numbers to 100.
- Students skip count by twos, fives, and tens to 50.
- Students solve addition and subtraction facts to 12.
- Students name and know the value of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.
- Students demonstrate that fractions are part of a whole.
Patterns, Relations and Algebra
- Students solve simple word problems using addition and subtraction.
- Students recognize, extend, and create 2 or 3 element patterns.
Geometry
- Students draw and describe 2-Dimensional shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, and oval.
- Students identify 3-dimensional shapes: cube, sphere, cylinder and cone.
Measurement
- Students tell time to the hour and half -hour.
- Students identify days of the week in sequential order.
- Students measure using basic standard units.
Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability
- Students record and interpret a graph.
Social Studies
(History, Geography, Civics, & Economics)
- Students
recognize now and long ago, historical figures,
- Students demonstrate grade appropriate map skills.
- Students
identify the current President of the
- Students identify national symbols.
- Students recognize products and services that people use.
Science
Earth and Space Science
- Students recognize the various components of the earth's surface.
- Students identify patterns of the seasons and day and night.
Life Science
- Students recognize what living things need to survive and how seasonal changes affect them.
- Students classify living and non-living things.
- Students recognize that people interact with the environment through their senses.
Physical Science
- Students demonstrate how force can change motion and how motion affects objects.
- Students describe the various ways an object can move.
Technology/Engineering
- Students describe and compare characteristics of natural and human made materials.
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