COLEGIO VILLA MARIA
MIRAFLORES
ENGLISH SYLLABUS – FIRST GRADE
THIRD TRIMESTER - 2010
AREAS
Oral Expression /
Comprehension
Written Expression /
Grammar
ACHIEVEMENT INDICATORS
 Listens carefully to oral reading, discussions, and spoken
messages.
 Understands text and messages heard.
 Understands commands and routine daily expressions.
 Uses commands and routine daily expressions.
 Connects experiences and ideas with those of others
through speaking and listening.
 Respond appropriately to questions, directions, text read
aloud, and oral presentations.
 Expand vocabulary by listening and speaking.
 Builds simple sentences orally.
 Participate in short dialogues or drills.
 Develops phonemic awareness:
 Blend, segment and count phonemes
 Add initial sounds
 Delete final sounds
 Identify position of sounds
 Blend, segment and count phonemes
 Distinguish long and short vowel sounds
 Segment words into syllables
 Produce rhyming words
 Understands vocabulary words (happy birthday, toys,
outdoor activities and food).
 Asks questions using the "question words": who, what,
when, where.
 Recognizes that capitalization and punctuation are used for
comprehension of a text.
 Uses capitalization and punctuation in a sentence.
 Uses vocabulary words in order to write meaningful
sentences.
 Writes short and coherent paragraphs that develop a central
idea.
 Reads and sorts contractions: 'm, 's, 're, n't, 'll.
 Develops grammar awareness:
 Identifies pronouns in sentences.
 Identifies the verb to be in sentences.
 Identifies the verb has/have in sentences.
 Blends, reads and sorts words with inflected endings/simple present tense.
 Blends, reads and sorts words with inflected endinging/present continuous tense.
Reading
Spelling / Phonics
 Relates own experience to what is being read.
 Reads orally with appropriate fluency (accuracy, expression,
style, and attention to phrasing and punctuation).
 Understands vocabulary through reading.
 Recognizes and understands high frequency words through
reading.
 Recognizes and understands spelling vocabulary words
through reading.
 Uses strategies to comprehend texts: predict, reread, retell,
summarize, visualize, and ask questions.
 Recognizes and comprehends elements from a story:
characters, setting, genre (real / fantasy / fiction / photo
essay/ nonfiction), conflict, cause and effect and sequence
of events.
 Reads and sorts contractions: 'm, 's, 're, n't, 'll.
 Understands that spoken words are composed of sounds
which are represented by letters of the alphabet.
 Knows letter/sound relationships.
 Identifies long vowel sound i - CVCe.
 Writes one syllable words with long vowel sound i - CVCe.
 Writes sentences with long vowel sound i - CVCe.
 Spells one-syllable words with long vowel sound i - CVCe.
 Identifies long vowel sound o - CVCe.
 Writes one syllable words with long vowel sound o - CVCe.
 Writes sentences with long vowel sound o - CVCe.
 Spells one-syllable words with long vowel sound o - CVCe.
 Identifies long vowel sound u - CVCe.
 Writes one syllable words with long vowel sound u - CVCe.
 Writes sentences with long vowel sound u - CVCe.
 Spells one-syllable words with long vowel sound u - CVCe.
 Identifies long vowel sound e: e.ee.
 Writes one syllable words with long vowel sound e: e,ee.
 Writes sentences with long vowel sound e: e,ee.
 Spells one-syllable words with long vowel sound e: e,ee.