1st Grade Language Arts
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1.1 The student will continue to demonstrate growth in the use of oral language.
a) Listen and respond to a variety of media, including books, audiotapes, videos, and other age- appropriate
materials.
b) Tell and retell stories and events in logical order.
c) Participate in a variety of oral language activities, including choral speaking and reciting short poems,
rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns.
d) Express ideas orally in complete sentences.
Activities
1. Biggest Snowball of All - Read the book Biggest Snowball of All by Jane Belk Moncure. The students will
color a snowman, mittens, polar bear, penguin, and snowflake online using the website www.dltk-
kids.com/color/winter1.htm.
2. Color/Word Match - The students will use the Kidspiration Color/Word Match template to match colors with
the correct color words.
3. Students can create a timeline of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle using Timeliner. See example
below.
1.2 The student will continue to expand and use listening and speaking vocabularies.
a) Increase oral descriptive vocabulary.
b) Begin to ask for clarification and explanation of words and ideas.
c) Follow simple two-step oral directions.
d) Give simple two-step oral directions.
e) Use singular and plural nouns.
Activities
1.3 The student will adapt or change oral languate to fit the situation.
a) Initiate conversation with peers and adults.
b) Follow rules for conversation.
c) Use appropriate voice level in small-group settings.
d) Ask and respond to questions in small-group settings.
Activities
1.4 The student will orally identify and manipulate phonemes (small units of sound) in syllables and
multisyllabic words.
a) Count phonemes (sounds) in syllables or words with a maximum of three syllables.
b) Add or delete phonemes (sounds) orally to change syllables or words.
c) Create rhyming words orally.
d) Blend sounds to make word parts and words with one to three syllables.
Activities
1. Rhyming Words - Read There's a Zoo in Room 22 to the students. Discuss rhyming words with the class.
Using the Kidspiration Rhyming Words template the students will drag the words into the correct boxes.
1.5 The student will apply knowledge of how print is organized and read.
a) Read from left to right and from top to bottom.
b) Match spoken words with print.
c) Identify letters, words, and sentences.
Activities
1.6 The student will apply phonetic principles to read and spell.
a) Use the beginning and ending consonants to decode and spell single-syllable words.
b) Use two-letter consonant blends to decode and spell single-syllable words.
c) Use beginning consonant digraphs to decode and spell single-syllable words.
d) Use short vowel sounds to decode and spell single-syllable words.
e) Blend beginning, middle, and ending sounds to recognize and read words.
f) Use word patterns to decode unfamiliar words.
g) Use compound words.
h) Read and spell common, high-frequency sight words, including the, said, and come.
Activities
1. Word Families - Read the book Green Eggs and Ham and discuss word families with the class. Using the
Kidspiration Green Eggs and Ham template students will make word families for -am, -ig, and -op. See
template and example below.
2. Word Wizard - Read the book Corduroy to the class. The students will complete a word activity using the
website www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordwizard.
1.7 The student will use meaning clues and language structure to expand vocabulary when reading.
a) Use titles and pictures.
b) Use knowledge of the story and topic read words.
c) Use knowledge of sentence structure.
d) Reread and self-correct.
Activities
1.8 The student will read familiar stories, poems, and passages with fluency and expression.
Activities
1.9 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of fiction and nonfiction.
a) Review the selection.
b) Set a purpose for reading.
c) Relate previous experiences to what is read.
d) Make predictions about content.
e) Ask and answer who, what, when where, why, and how questions about what is read.
f) Identify characters, setting, and important events.
g) Retell stories and events, using beginning, middle, and end.
Activities
1. Beginning, Middle, and End - Read Wild About Books by Judy Sierra to the students. The students use
pictures to complete a Kidspiration Wild About Books template about the beginning, middle, and end of the
book.
1.10 The student will use simple reference materials.
a) Use knowledge of alphabetical order by first letter.
b) Use a picture dictionary to find meanings of unfamiliar words.
Activities
1.11 The student will print legibly.
a) Form letters.
b) Space words and sentences.
Activities
1.12 The student will write to communicate ideas.
a) Generate ideas.
b) Focus on one topic.
c) Use descriptive words when writing about people, places, things, and events.
d) Use complete sentences in final copies.
e) Begin each sentence with a capital letter and use ending punctuation in final copies.
f) Use correct spelling for high-frequency sight words and phonetically regular words in final copies.
g) Share writing with others.
h) Use available technology.
Activities
1. Very Hungry Caterpillar - Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle to the class. Using the KidPix Very
Hungry Caterpillar template the students will finish the sentence and stamp a picture that matches the
sentence.
2. There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Read There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly to the
class. The students will use the Kidspiration There was an Old Lady template to make a web of the animals
the old lady swallowed. See There was an Old Lady example. From the web the students will use the writing
tool to type sentences on an outline about the animals.
