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.1.6

Students will interpret illustrations and details to describe story elements when asking and answering questions about a story.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.1.6.1

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or orally presented through other media. 

1.SL.2

1.RL.1

 

LA.1.6.2

Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify misconceptions. 

1.SL.

 

LA.1.6.3

Retell stories including key details and explain  the central message/theme or lesson.

1.RL.2

 

LA.1.6.4

Describe characters, setting, and major events in a story using key details.

1.RL.3

 

LA.1.6.5

Utilize a combination of  illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events. 

1.RL.7

 

LA.1.6.6

Compare and contrast fiction and non-fiction texts 

1.RL.5

 

LA.1.6.7

Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories. 

1.RL.9

Academic Vocabulary: compare, contrast, question

Content Vocabulary: venn diagram, character, setting, problem, solution, fiction, nonfiction, key details, theme