ELA 1st Quarter
Reading Literature-Key Ideas and Details
1a. I can answer questions about details in a story.
2c I can use details to describe the characters of a story.
3a I can use details to describe the setting of a story.
Reading Literature-Craft and Structure
4a. I can find the feeling words in the story or poem.
4b. I can find the words that tell about the 5 senses in the story or
poem.
Reading List-Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7a. I can use illustrations and details in a story to describe the
character.
7b. I can use illustrations and details in a story to describe the
setting.
Reading Literature-Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
10. I can read first grade text and poetry with minimal help.
Information Text-Key Ideas & Details
1a. I can answer questions about key details in a text.
Reading Information Text-Craft and Structure
4b. I can answer questions to help me understand words and phrases
in a text.
Reading Foundational Skills-Print Concepts
1. I can understand how a sentence is made.
Reading Foundational Skills-Phonological Awareness
2a. I can tell the difference between long and short vowel sounds.
2b. I can blend sounds to read words.
2c. I can say the sounds in a word.
2d. I can segment the sounds in a word.
Reading Foundation-Phonics and Word Recognition
3b. I can read one syllable words.
3d. I can count the number of syllables in a word.
3g. I can identify and read words that don’t have spelling patterns.
Writing-Text Types and Purposes
3a. I can write a story telling about two events in order.
3b. I can write details about two events.
3c. I can write sequencing words to show the order of events.
3d. I can write a summary sentence that ends the story.
Writing ‐ Production and Distribution of Writing
5a. I can write on a topic.
Speaking and Listening ‐ Comprehension and Collaboration
1a. I can demonstrate following the agreed upon rules for successful
discussions.
2b. I can answer questions about the details after a visual or oral
presentation.
Speaking and Listening ‐ Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
6. I can speak in complete sentences.
Speaking and Listening ‐ Conventions of Standard English
1a. I can print all upper and lowercase letters.
1b. I can use common, proper, and possessive nouns.
1c. I can use nouns and matching verbs in sentences.
1d. I can use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns.
1j.1 I can produce and expand complete simple sentences.
2a. I can use capital letters for dates and people’s names.
2b. I can use end punctuation for sentences.
2e. I can use sounds to spell untaught words.
Language ‐ Vocabulary Acquisitions and Use
5a. I can sort words into similar group to see how they are alike.
6a. I can use words and phrases acquired through talking with others.