First grade is the decoding year. Children map letters to sounds well enough to read simple books, learn a growing set of high-frequency words, and start writing sentences with capitals and end marks. Retelling stories in order and noticing an author's purpose come alongside.
One stop per unit. Filled stops have practice activities today.
Units and standards preview
The knowledge-and-skills strands below are the state's, reproduced from English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 1, Adopted 2017.. Open a unit to read each student expectation and jump to the activities that practice it.
1Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.0/5 practiced
(A) listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and answer questions using multi-word responses;
19 TAC 110.3(b)(1)(A)
(B) follow, restate, and give oral instructions that involve a short, related sequence of actions;
19 TAC 110.3(b)(1)(B)
(C) share information and ideas about the topic under discussion, speaking clearly at an appropriate pace and using the conventions of language;
19 TAC 110.3(b)(1)(C)
+ 2 more expectations for members
2Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning reading and writing. The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell.2/23 practiced
(A) demonstrate phonological awareness by:
19 TAC 110.3(b)(2)(A)
(A.i) producing a series of rhyming words;
19 TAC 110.3(b)(2)(A)(i)
(A.ii) recognizing spoken alliteration or groups of words that begin with the same spoken onset or initial sound;
19 TAC 110.3(b)(2)(A)(ii)
+ 20 more expectations for members
9 more units, 90 expectations, 3 activities
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Read aloud every day and stop to ask: who is this about, where are they, what went wrong?
Play with sounds in the car: rhyming words, first sounds, clapping syllables.
Let your child see you write: a grocery list, a note, a text. Talk about the letters as you go.
Source: Texas Education Agency, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, 19 TAC §110.3. Curriculum text on this site is reproduced from the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills as published by the Texas Education Agency and codified in Title 19 of the Texas Administrative Code. Baccare is an independent product of Brigade Management, Inc. and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Texas Education Agency, the State Board of Education, or the Texas Secretary of State. Sources and attribution.