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.1.3

Students will ask and answer questions to determine understanding of word relationships, and interpret pictures, words, and phrases as they are used in a text,  identifying how specific word choices shape meaning.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.1.3.1

Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

1.L.4a

 

LA.1.3.2

Use frequently occurring affixes as a clue to the meaning of a word.

1.L.4b

 

LA.1.3.3

Identify frequently occurring root words (e.g., look) and their inflectional forms (eg., looks, looked, looking)

1.L.4.c

 

LA.1.3.4

Decode regularly spelled one syllable words.

1.RF.3b

 

LA.1.3.5

Sort and define words by category and attributes.

1.L.5a

1.L.5b

 

LA.1.3.6

Identify and distinguish shades of meanings in verbs and adjectives related to intensity.

1.L.5c

1.L.5d

 

LA.1.3.7

Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.

1.RI.4

 

LA.1.3.8

Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.

1.RI.6

Academic Vocabulary:

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