LOWER DAUPHIN SCHOOL DISTRICT
Language Arts Curriculum Maps – Grade 1
Topic: Foundational Skills
Key Learning: Words have meaningful parts that follow specific sound combinations and spelling
patterns. Application of these foundational skills will provide opportunities to gain the capacity to read
and comprehend texts across a range of types.
Unit Essential Question: How does a working knowledge of print,
phonics and phonological awareness help me read on-level text with
accuracy, an appropriate rate and expression?
Concept:
1 Foundational Skills
Concept:
2 Foundational Skills
Print Concepts
Phonological Awareness
CC.1.1.1.B
CC.1.1.1.C
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence?
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable
words?
How do I count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken and written
words?
How do I orally produce single-syllable words, including consonant blends and
digraphs?
How do I isolate and pronounce initial, medial, and final sounds (phonemes) in
spoken single-syllable words?
Vocabulary:
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How do I add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in one-syllable words
to make new words?
Vocabulary:
Digraphs:
Blends:
ch- in chin and ouch
bl- in blue and black
sh- in ship and push
cl- in clap and close
th- in thing
fl- in fly and flip
th- in this
gl- in glue and glove
wh- in when
pl- in play and please
ng- in ring
br- in brown and break
nk- in rink
cr- in cry and crust
dr- in dry and drag
Phonemes
fr- in fry and freeze
gr- in great and grand
pr- in prize and prank
tr- in tree and try
sk- in skate and sky
sl- in slip and slap
sp- in spot and speed
st- in street and stop
sw- in sweet and sweater
spr- in spray and spring
str- in stripe and strap
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LOWER DAUPHIN SCHOOL DISTRICT
Language Arts Curriculum Maps – Grade 1
Resources
Sentences - throughout Reading Street
Resources
Short vowels - Throughout Reading Street
Long vowels - Units 2-5
Segment words into sounds - Throughout Reading Street
Orally produce single-syllable words - Throughout Reading Street
Blends/Digraphs - From unit 1.4 and beyond
Add/substitute phones - Unit 1 Weeks 1-6, Unit 2 Weeks 4-6 and beyond
Websites:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/consonantblends/ - provides sample lists
for each blend/digraph
Websites:
Apps for Print Concepts:
Concept:
Apps for Phonological Awareness:
3 Foundational Skills
Concept:
4
Foundational Skills
Phonics and Word Recognition
Fluency
CC.1.1.1.D
CC.1.1.1.E
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I identify common consonant digraphs, final e and common vowel
teams?
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I read on-level text with purpose and understanding?
How do I decode one and two-syllable words with common patterns?
How do I read grade-level words with inflectional endings?
How do I read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and
expression on successive readings?
How do I use context to confirm pronunciation and meaning, rereading as
necessary?
How do I read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words?
Vocabulary:
Common initial consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, wh, ph
Vocabulary:
Accuracy, rate, expression
Common final consonant digraphs: ch, ng, sh, th, gh(cough)
Final e: aCe; eCe; iCe; oCe; uCe (page 213, Word Journeys, Ganske)
Common vowel teams: ai, ay, ei, ee, ea, ie, igh, y, oa, oe, oo, iCC (mind),
oCC (cold), ow (know), ew (few), ue, ui (Appendix 1, Word Journey, pages
215-217)
Irregularly spelled words (from sight word list): been, they, some, have,
said, live, come, people, etc.
Resources
digraphs - Unit 1 Weeks 4-6 and beyond
Final e - Unit 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Vowel patterns - throughout Reading Street
Inflectional endings/base words - throughout Reading Street
Websites
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Resources
Websites
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LOWER DAUPHIN SCHOOL DISTRICT
Language Arts Curriculum Maps – Grade 1
Crickweb Literacy
-Word Wheel 1 & 2; blending phonemes
-CVC
-Clusters
Fun City
Skills: spelling
http://www.readinga-z.com/ - can be used to provide on-level texts, students
can record their reading, and they can listen to fluent reading of stories.
-phonics endings – rhyming
APPS for Phonics and Word Recognition
Word Bingo
Little Speller
Magnetic ABC
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APPS for Fluency
One Minute Reader
Timed Reader
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