First Grade Learning Targets & Lessons Resource Guide
Explanation for Teaching
FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
Foundational Skills are the skills that must be taught in order for children
to read fluently and write skillfully.
Common Core Skills build higher level thinking when speaking, reading, and
writing.
Year Long Standards:
These are skills that all students must work on
throughout the school year in addition to the Quarterly
Targets.
Common Core lessons address the following year long standards:
Discussion rules, asking and answering questions, shades of word meaning,
adjectives, key details, following two step directions, speaking in complete
sentences, categorizing words, and labeling pictures
Foundational Skill lessons address the following year long standards:
Phonemic awareness, phonics, grammar, reading practice, vocabulary
Teacher Tip: Close reading practice for meaning and memorizing poems, songs, rhymes is a
skill you must incorporate throughout the year.
Quarterly Standards:
These are the standards from which the Quarterly Target activities
were designed.
Quarterly Targets:
These are skills that all students must practice towards mastery for
each quarter. These are suggested activities that will lead to mastery of each
targeted skill/standard. If a skill is to be a tested skill for a particular quarter, the
target will clearly state: “Student will master…” These targets are a guide to keep
all students paced with mastering skills. Students who do not master the quarterly
targets will require Clinic time help, (RTI).
Skill Lesson Resource Guide: This guide helps teachers find HM resources to teach the specific
targeted skills by quarter. Since the quarterly targets do not always match the HM
TE lesson order, the Skill Lesson Resource Guide will help teachers know what TE
pages/resources will support each quarter’s targeted skills. Themes 1 -3
consistently match Q1 target skills. Themes 4 –10 do not consistently match Q2, Q3,
Q4 target skill sequence. (Example: R-controlled words are taught before
diphthongs.)