English Language Arts Curriculum

1st Grade

Course Purpose:

Students will apply phonemic awareness skills while reading with meaning. Students will connect reading, writing, speaking, and listening within their grade level content.  Students will devise different forms of writing in a paragraph format.

Outcomes and Components:

LA.1.11

Students will incorporate the use of conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking in response to a prompt. 

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.1.11.1

Use frequently occurring conjunctions. 

1.L.1g

 

LA.1.11.2

Use determiners, such as articles and demonstratives.

1.L.1h

 

LA.1.11.3

Use frequently occurring prepositions.

1.L.1i

 

LA.1.11.4

Produce and expand simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.  

1.L.1j

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