Grade 1 - English Language Arts & Literature

English Language Arts & Literature

Text Forms and Structures: Identifying and applying text forms and structures improves understanding of content, literary style, and our rich language traditions.

Oral Language: Listening and speaking form the foundation for literacy development and improve communication, collaboration, and respectful mutual understanding.

Vocabulary: Communication and comprehension are improved by understanding word meaning and structures.

Phonological Awareness: Foundational literacy is supported by the ability to identify and manipulate sounds in oral language.

Phonics: Foundational literacy is supported by understanding relationships between sounds in oral language and the letters that represent them.

Fluency: Comprehension and literary appreciation are improved by the ability to read a range of texts accurately, automatically, and with expression.

Comprehension: Text comprehension is supported by applying varied strategies and processes and by considering both particular contexts and universal themes.

Writing: Ideas and information can be articulated accurately and imaginatively through the use of writing processes and an understanding of the author's craft.

Conventions: Understanding grammar, spelling, and punctuation makes it easier to communicate clearly, to organize thinking, and to use language for desired effects.

How can the organization of ideas and information support the sharing of messages?

In what ways can listening and speaking be applied to develop oral communication?

How can vocabulary and morphological awareness work together to increase knowledge of words?

How does the manipulation of sound in oral language support phonological awareness?

How can understanding relationships between sounds and letters (phonics) increase knowledge of words?

How does reading prosody (expression) support fluency?

What messages are conveyed through ideas and information within texts?

How can writing be used to communicate meaning?

How do the functions of conventions support literacy development?

Students examine ways that messages can be organized and presented for different purposes.

Students develop listening and speaking skills through sharing stories and information.

Students analyze word formation and meaning.

Students manipulate sounds in words in oral language.

Students recognize and analyze letters and sounds in words.

Students apply accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression in the development of fluency.

Students investigate meaning communicated in texts.

Students create messages through the application of writing processes.

Students examine and apply use of grammar, spelling, and punctuation in oral and written language.