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1st grade 19 TAC §110.3 92 student expectations 12 activities

1st grade Reading & Writing

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.

Practice activities

🔤Sound Play and SpellingRhymes, alliteration, blending and taking apart sounds, changing one sound to make a new word, decoding and spelling with syllable types, blends, digraphs, and patterns; parts of a book; picture dictionaries; words for actions, positions, and sequences.
⚡Phonics PowerLong and short vowels, blends and digraphs, silent e, vowel teams, compound words, contractions, and endings.
🐱Memory Match: Words and PicturesRead short-vowel words like cat, bug and box, and match each one to its picture.
🧺Word Catch: Short Vowels and Sight WordsCatch short-vowel words by their vowel, and catch sight words.
🪐Word Rocket: Sight WordsUnscramble the words you see everywhere.
🚀Typing Rocket: Short WordsType short-vowel words like cat and sun, and your first sight words, to fly the rocket to the planets.
🖍️Sentence StartersPast and present verbs, adjectives and articles, time words, prepositions, pronouns, and ABC order.
🤝Reading TogetherSet a purpose, ask questions, picture the story, connect, find what matters most, put ideas together, fix confusion, respond with comments and evidence, name the theme, know informational text features, and draft and edit.
🔎Story SleuthsPredict, find clues, retell, and talk about characters, problems, and settings.
📖Kinds of BooksFables, fairy tales, poems, and books that give information.
📝Writers' WorkshopWhy authors write, characters and setting in plays, order and description in informational text, planning and organizing a draft, poems, how-to writing, thank-you notes, and finding answers.
✏️Word Jobs: Nouns and VerbsNaming words, action words, and sentence endings.

The learning path

One stop per unit. Filled stops have practice activities today.

1Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. Th2Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning r3Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary.4Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency. Th5Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustai6Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacog7Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an in8Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The studen9Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognize10Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses c11Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses12Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre ch13Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in b

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
  1. (A) listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and answer questions using multi-word responses;
    19 TAC 110.3(b)(1)(A)
  2. (B) follow, restate, and give oral instructions that involve a short, related sequence of actions;
    19 TAC 110.3(b)(1)(B)
  3. (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)
  4. + 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.22/23 practiced
  1. (A) demonstrate phonological awareness by:
    19 TAC 110.3(b)(2)(A)
    🔤 Sound Play and Spelling
  2. (A.i) producing a series of rhyming words;
    19 TAC 110.3(b)(2)(A)(i)
    🔤 Sound Play and Spelling
  3. (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)
    🔤 Sound Play and Spelling
  4. + 20 more expectations for members

11 more units, 92 expectations, 12 activities

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How to help at home

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.

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Course details

  • Grade1st grade
  • SubjectReading & Writing
  • Standard19 TAC §110.3
  • Units13
  • Expectations92
  • Activities12
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