FIRST GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS ESSENTIAL STANDARDS AND BENCHMARKS
READING
Essential Standard:
1.0
UNDERSTAND FEATURES OF READING BY TRANSLATING WRITTEN WORDS INTO SPOKEN LANGUAGE AND APPLY THIS KNOWLEDGE TO ACHIEVE
FLUENT ORAL AND SILENT READING.
First Trimester: Benchmarks
 1.1 Match oral words to printed words (one to one match).
 1.3 Identify letters words and sentences.
 1.4 Distinguish orally initial, medial, and final sounds in single syllable words. (e.g. c a t ).
 1.7 Add, delete, or change target sounds to change short vowel words. (e.g., fat, cat, mat, rat)
 1.8 Blend two-three phonemes into recognizable words. (e.g., c-a-t = “cat”)
 1.11 Read selected sight words
 1.5 Auditorily distinguish between long and short vowel sounds in single syllable words (cap/cape, bit/bite)
 1.15 Read common word families. (e.g., –at, -it)
Second Trimester: Benchmarks
 1.5 Decode long and short vowel sounds in single-syllable words. (e.g. cap/cape, bit/bite)
 1.6 Create and say a series of rhyming words including consonant blends. (e.g.,“Think of word that rhymes with day. Say it”)
 1.7 Add, delete, or change target sounds to change words with diagraphs. (e.g., look-cook-book-, cow-how-now)
 1.8 Blend 4 phonemes into recognizable words. (e.g., f-l-a-t = flat)
 1.9 Segment single syllable words into their components. (e.g., r/i/ch = rich)
 1.11 Read selected sight words.
 1.14 Read inflectional forms and root words. (e.g., look-looks-looking)
 1.15 Read common word families. (e.g., __ite, __ate)
Third Trimester: Benchmarks
 1.11 Read selected high frequency words.
 1.12 Use knowledge of vowel diagraphs (saw, out) and r-controlled (car, her, bird) letter-sound associations to read words.
 1.13 Read compound words and contractions in text.
 1.16 Read aloud with fluency in a manner that sounds like natural speech, integrating meaning, structure and visual cues. (e.g., running record)
 1.14 Read inflectional forms and root words. (e.g., look-looked, want-wanted)
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READING
Essential Standard:
2.0 & 3.0 READ, UNDERSTAND, AND RESPOND TO GRADE LEVEL APPROPRIATE MATERIAL.
First Trimester: Benchmarks
 2.2 Orally respond to who, what, where, and how questions.
 2.4-2.6 Demonstrate use of various comprehension strategies appropriate to the grade and text level (context clues, predictions and prior knowledge).
 2.7 Read and retell appropriate reading level text in narrative and expository.
Second Trimester: Benchmarks
 2.4-2.6 Demonstrate use of various comprehension strategies appropriate to the grade level text (context clues, predictions and prior knowledge).
 2.7 Read and retell appropriate reading level text in narrative and expository.
Third Trimester: Benchmarks
 2.4-2.6 Demonstrate use of various comprehension strategies appropriate to the grade level and text (context clues, predictions and prior knowledge).
 2.7 Read and retell appropriate reading level text in narrative and expository.
 3.1 Identify plot, setting and character (s) in a story. Identify the story’s beginning, middle, and end.
WRITING, APPLICATIONS AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS
Essential Standard:
1.0 & 2.0 WRITE CLEAR AND COHERENT SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS THAT DEVELOP A CENTRAL IDEA USING STANDARD ENGLISH CONVENTIONS.
First Trimester: Benchmarks
 1.1 Write in complete, coherent, simple sentences. (Conventions)
 1.7 Capitalizes the pronoun “I” and the names of people. (Conventions)
 1.8 Spell three letter short vowel words and selected sight words. (Conventions)
 2.1 Write brief narrative describing an experience.
Second Trimester: Benchmarks
 1.1 Select a focus when writing. (Strategies)
 1.3 Print legibly and space letters, words, and sentences appropriately. (Strategies)
 1.6 Uses knowledge of periods and question marks.
 1.8 Spell four letter short vowel words and selected sight words.
 3.3 Responds in writing to a narrative text.
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Third Trimester: Benchmarks
 1.2 Use descriptive words when writing complex sentences. (Strategies)
 1.3 Uses contractions and singular possessive pronouns.
 1.6 Use knowledge of basic rules of punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation point) and capitalization when writing. (Conventions)
 1.8 Spell selected sight words. (Conventions)
 2.1 Write brief narrative (fictional, autobiographical) describing an experience. (Applications)
 2.2 Write brief expository descriptions of a real object, person, place or event. (Applications)
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LISTENING AND SPEAKING STRATEGIES AND ORAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS
Essential Standard:
1.0
DEMONSTRATE A COMMAND OF STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLISH.
First Trimester: Benchmarks
 1.1 Listen attentively.
 1.1 Speak in complete, coherent sentences.
 2.1 Recite poems, rhymes, songs and stories.
Second Trimester: Benchmarks
 1.2 Ask questions for clarification.
 1.3 Restate and follow simple directions.
 1.4 Stay on topic.
 2.3 Relate a personal experience in a simple sequence.
Third Trimester: Benchmarks
 1.5 Use descriptive words.
 2.2 Retell stories in sequence answering who, what, when, where, why and how questions.
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