FIRST GRADE
(minimum curriculum)

Reading

1.1.01 Develop oral language.

1. Show evidence of expanding oral language through vocabulary growth.
2. Implement rules for conversation (e.g., raise hands, take turns, focus attention on speaker).
3. Understand, follow and give oral directions.
4. Participate in-group discussions.
5. Participate in creative responses to text (e.g., choral reading, discussion and drama).
6. Respond to questions from teacher and other group members.
7. Begin to narrate a personal story.
8. Dramatize or retell what has been learned, heard or experienced.
9. Use familiar texts for recitations.

1.1.02 Develop listening skills.

1. Listen attentively to speaker for specific information.
2. Use appropriate listening skills (e.g., do not interrupt, face speaker, ask questions).
3. Listen and respond to a variety of media (e.g., books, audio tapes, videos).
4. Recognize the difference between formal and informal languages.
5. Understand and follow simple, three step oral directions.

1.1.03 Demonstrate knowledge of concepts of print.

1. Understand that printed materials provide information.
2. Demonstrate directionality by reading left to right and top to bottom.
3. Track print when being read to aloud.
4. Read and explain own writings and drawings.
5. Identify parts of a book (e.g., title page, table of contents).
6. Recognize that groups of words make sentences.
7. Understand punctuation (e.g., period, question mark).

1.1.04 Develop and maintain phonemic awareness.

1. Recognize words that begin with the same sounds.
2. Recognize words that end with the same sounds.
3. Identify rhyming words.
4. Blend sounds together to form one-syllable words.
5. Segment one-syllable words into sounds.
6. Change targeted sounds to modify or change words.
7. Show awareness of syllables by clapping, counting or moving objects.

 1.1.05 Develop and use decoding strategies.

1. Use knowledge of letter-sound correspondence knowledge and structural analysis to decode grade appropriate words.
2. Decode phonetically regular, one-syllable words.
3. Use decoding strategies, such as sounding out words, comparing similar words, breaking words into smaller words, and looking for word parts (e.g., compound words, word families, blends, and digraphs).
4. Apply long and short vowel rules when decoding.
5. Begin to decode unknown words automatically.

1.1.06 Read to develop fluency, expression, accuracy and confidence.

1. Begin to read orally with accuracy and confidence using appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression.
2. Reflect punctuation of written text while reading orally.
3. Participate in guided, oral readings.
4. Demonstrate the automatic recognition of high frequency words.
5. Read with increasing fluency and confidence from a variety of texts through paired readings, shared reading, choral reading, teacher-led reading, and reading from tapes.
6. Read independently daily.
7. Recite familiar texts to develop fluency, expression, accuracy and confidence.

1.1.07 Develop and extend reading vocabulary.

1. Build vocabulary by listening to literature, participating in discussions, and reading self-selected texts.
2. Build vocabulary through frequent read-alouds.
3. Participate in shared reading.
4. Manipulate word families, word walls, and word sorts.
5. Match oral words to written words.
6. Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words by using a picture dictionary, picture clues, context clues and structural analysis.
7. Add endings to base words (e.g., -s, -ed, -es, -ing).
8. Identify simple abbreviations.

1.1.08 Develop and use pre-reading strategies.

1. Develop a purpose for listening/reading.
2. Participate in activities to build background knowledge to derive meaning from text.
3. Make predictions about text.
4. Use illustrations to preview text.

1.1.09 Use active comprehension strategies to derive meaning while reading and check for understanding after reading.

a. Derive meaning while reading by

1. Asking questions about text.
2. Recognizing errors in reading as they occur and self-correct.
3. Participating in discussions about text and relating to personal experiences.
4. Creating graphic organizers (e.g., charts, lists).
5. Predicting and adjusting outcomes during read-alouds.

b. Check for understanding after reading by

1. Recalling three to four step sequences of events.
2. Retelling stories in their own words using sequencing words (i.e. first, next, last).
3. Drawing conclusions based on what has been read.
4. Recognizing main idea in pictures, picture books and texts.

1.1.10 Introduce informational skills to facilitate learning.

1. Recognize the family and community as sources of information.
2. Recognize a variety of print items as sources of information (e.g. books, magazines, maps, charts, and graphs).
3. Recognize sources of information (e.g., books, maps, graphs, charts).
4. Use graphic organizers to aid in understanding material from informational text (e.g., charts, graphs, web).
5. Visit libraries to use and view appropriate material.

1.1.11 Develop skills to facilitate reading to learn in a variety of content areas.

1. Begin to develop content specific vocabulary.
2. Use text features to locate information (e.g., maps, charts, illustrations and table of contents).

1.1.12 Read independently for a variety of purposes. (At this level, the student will explore as an emergent reader.)

1. Read for literary experience.
2. Read to gain information.
3. Read to perform a task.
4. Read for enjoyment.
5. Read to expand vocabulary.
6. Read to build fluency.

1.1.13 Experience various literary and media genres.

1. Read and view various literary (e.g., picture books, storybooks, fairy tales, poetry, lyrics to songs) and media (e.g., illustrations, the arts, films, videos) genres.
2. Explore non-fiction.
3. Identify characters, events, and settings in print and non-print text.
4. Recognize main character(s) in print and non-print text.
5. Determine whether a selection is real or fantasy.
6. Recognize rhyme in Mother Goose and other rhyming books.
7. Retell a story in correct sequence (e.g., using books, videos, films).
8. Determine the problem in a story and discover its solution through classroom discussion.

1.1.14 Develop and maintain a motivation to read.

1. Visit libraries/media centers and regularly check out materials.
2. Share storybooks, poems, newspapers, and environmental print.
3. Explore a wide variety of literature through read alouds, tapes, and independent reading.
4. Identify favorite stories, informational text, authors, and illustrators.
5. Engage in a variety of literacy activities voluntarily (e.g., self-select books and stories).
6. Choose to read as a leisure activity.

Writing

1.2.01 Use a variety of pre-writing strategies.

1. Brainstorm ideas with teacher and peers.
2. Draw pictures to generate ideas.
3. Construct graphic organizers (e.g., webs, charts, diagrams) as a small or large group to organize information.
4. Use a variety of sources to gather information.

1.2.02 Write for a variety of purposes.

1. Write to acquire and exhibit knowledge (e.g., word families, numbers, shapes, sensory words and sentences).
2. Write to entertain (e.g., stories and poems).
3. Write to inform (e.g., write simple directions, journals, friendly letters).

1.2.03 Show evidence of drafting and revision with written work.

1. Compose first drafts using appropriate parts of the writing process with an emphasis on planning and self-correction.
2. Write in complete, coherent sentences.
3. Use descriptive words when writing.
4. Use temporary spelling to spell independently as necessary.
5. Arrange events in logical/sequential order when writing or dictating.
6. Participate in teacher-led experience stories.
7. Reread draft and delete extraneous information.
8. Vary sentence types.

1.2.04 Include editing before the completion of finished work.

1. Apply elements of language (e.g., end marks, capitalization) and use complete sentences when writing and editing.
2. Use classroom resources (e.g., word walls, picture dictionaries, teacher, peers, appropriate technology, student generated word books) to support the writing process.
3. Use knowledge of letter sounds, word parts, and word segmentation to monitor and correct spelling.
4. Create readable documents with legible handwriting.
5. Identify words or phrases that could be added to clarify meaning, after writing or dictating a story.

1.2.05 Evaluate own and others’ writing.

1. Use a simple rubric to evaluate writing/pictures and group work (e.g., happy face, stickers).
2. Discuss and react to writing.
3. Review personal collection to determine progress.

1.2.06 Experience numerous publishing opportunities.

1. Prepare a variety of written work (e.g., published books, classroom books, experience stories).
2. Use technology to publish writing.
3. Share completed work.
4. Create individual and classroom books.
5. Incorporate illustrations and photographs.

1.2.07 Write narrative accounts.

1. Write simple stories.
2. Write short accounts of personal experiences.
3. Write group stories with a beginning, middle and ending.

1.2.08 Write frequently across content areas.

1. Summarize concepts presented in science (e.g., illustration, dictating sentences or composing simple sentences).
2. Write stories using concepts presented in social studies.
3. Write in math journals, create math stories, and write explanations for problem solving.
4. Participate in shared writings about the arts and class activities.

1.2.09 Write expressively using original ideas, reflections, and observations.

1. Write, when given time, place, and materials.
2. Maintain, with teacher assistance, samples of writing and drawings that express opinions and judgments (e.g., portfolio, journals, student-made books).
3. Dictate stories (e.g., to tape recorder, to adult, to older student).

1.2.10 Write in response to literature.

1. Write different endings to a story.
2. Summarize a story using simple sentences and illustrations.
3. Create class books based on literature selections.
4. Create and/or use an illustration, sign, or rebus symbols to respond to literature.

1.2.11 Write in a variety of modes and genres.

1. Write friendly notes and messages.
2. Write stories.
3. Write in journals.
4. Write rhymes and poems.

Elements of Language

1.3.01 Demonstrate knowledge of standard English usage.

1. Use nouns appropriately (e.g., singular and plural, possessive).
2. Use verbs (action words) appropriately (e.g., tense and agreement with simple subject).
3. Use pronouns appropriately (e.g., subject and object agreement).
4. Use adjectives appropriately (e.g., vivid description words).

1.3.02 Demonstrate knowledge of standard English mechanics.

1. Capitalize the first word of a sentence, first and last names, pronoun "I" and proper nouns.
2. Use correct punctuation at the end of simple declarative sentences and questions.
3. Identify and use contractions.
4. Write legibly in manuscript, using proper spacing between letters of a word and words of a sentence.

1.3.03 Demonstrate knowledge of standard English spelling.

1. Spell high frequency words correctly.
2. Spell words correctly as appropriate to grade level.
3. Spell three- and four-letter short vowel words and phonetically spell sight words correctly.
4. Alphabetize words to the first letter.
5. Begin to develop dictionary skills through the use of a picture dictionary.

1.3.04 Demonstrate knowledge of correct sentence structure.

1. Use complete and coherent sentences when speaking.
2. Identify complete sentences.
3. Write a simple sentence.
4. Identify and correct incomplete sentences.
5. Combine two simple sentences into a compound sentence using the word "and."
6. Identify statements and questions by noting ending punctuation when writing and intonation when speaking.

Math Standards

Number and Operations

1. Count by twos, fives, and tens to 100;
2. Count a group of objects by ones to 100;
3. Count a group of objects by twos, fives, and tens up to 30;
4. Count forward or backward by one beginning with any number less than 100;
5. Recognize the place value of a digit in numbers to 99;
6. Read and write numerals up to 100;
7. Count by tens from any number using a hundred chart;
8. Use manipulatives to model whole numbers to 99 (e.g., base-ten blocks, sticks, straws);
9. Identify odd and even whole numbers to 50;
10. Model halves and fourths of a single object or figure;
11. Model halves and fourths of a set of objects;
12. Match the spoken, written, concrete, and pictorial representations of 1/2 and 1/4;
13. Recognize one whole as two halves or four fourths;
14. Count the value of a set of coins up to fifty cents;
15. Order whole numbers less than 100;
16. Represent numbers in flexible ways using a variety of materials (e.g., 23 as 23 ones, 1 ten and 13 ones, and/or 2 tens and 3 ones);
17. Apply the language of ordinal numbers up to twelfth;
18. Compare two numbers using the appropriate symbol (i.e., <, >, =);
19. Use a number line or hundred grid to determine one more or one less than any number to 50.
20. Explain the reasonableness of a solution;
21. Solve simple story problems involving addition and subtraction with numbers less than 20;
22. Develop story problems that illustrate basic addition and subtraction facts.
23. Use words, actions, pictures, and manipulatives to solve problems;
24. Use pictures or objects, such as ten frames, to show one more or one less than any number to 99;
25. Estimate the number of objects in a group and explain the reasoning for the estimate;
26. Explain and justify solutions and strategies in problem solving;
27. Use a variety of strategies to add and subtract two-digit whole numbers (e.g., counting up or back, taking away, doubles plus one, comparison, number relationships, modeling);
28. Use calculators in problem-solving situations.

Algebra

1. Sort objects by two attributes;
2. Describe how objects in a group are alike and how they are different.
3. Identify and describe growing patterns found in literature, in the environment, in physical arrangements, and in pictures;
4. Translate a repeating pattern from one medium to another (e.g., red-blue-blue to snap-clap-clap);
5. Create, describe, and extend concrete, visual, auditory, and number patterns;
6. Identify the unit of a two-part repeating pattern.
7. Use manipulatives to demonstrate addition and subtraction sentences written symbolically involving numbers 0-20;
8. Communicate and use mathematical terms and symbols appropriately;
9. Interpret and solve simple open addition sentences.
10. Apply the commutative property of addition.

Geometry

1. Recognize basic properties of and similarities and differences between simple geometric figures (e.g., number of sides, corners);
2. Predict and describe the results of putting together and taking apart two- and three-dimensional geometric figures.
3. Use directional terms in a variety of situations (e.g., over, under, forward, backward, between, right, left);
4. Apply spatial sense to create a figure from memory;
5. Identify the position of a whole number on the number line.

Measurement

1. Compare and order objects according to length, capacity, and weight;
2. Recognize the need for standard units of measurement.
3. Demonstrate understanding of the concept of length;
4. Measure and estimate length using a variety of non-standard units;
5. Measure to the nearest inch or centimeter;
6. Measure weight to nearest pound or kilogram;
7. Recognize a calendar is a way of measuring time;
8. Describe the relationship between days and months;
9. Read and write time to the hour and half-hour;
10. Compare units of time;
11. Use a thermometer to measure temperature.

Data Analysis and Probability

1. Represent and interpret data using concrete objects, pictures, pictographs, and bar graphs.
2. Describe events related to students’ experiences as likely or unlikely.

Social Studies

Culture

1. Recognize that culture is learned behavior that includes customs, beliefs, rules, life ways, language, food, and clothing,
2. Unique individual differences to include: folktales, myths and legends.

Economics

1. Identify differences in needs and wants.
2. Identify how people exchange goods and services.
3. Describe the requirements of various jobs and the characteristics of a job well performed.
4. Distinguish the differences between needs and services.
5. Distinguish the difference between goods and services.
6. Differentiate between consumers and producers.

Geography

1. Use maps and globes to locate their home, neighborhood, and school.
2. Use map, symbols and legends to identify locations and directions.
3. Interpret symbols that represent various forms of geographic data.
4. Define and use cardinal directions.
5. Locate cities, states, countries, continents and major bodies of water on maps and globes.
6. Identify human features (i.e. cities, buildings, farms, roads, and railroads).
7. Identify the geographic location of the United States and Tennessee on a globe and a map.
8. Estimate distances (i.e. home to school).
9. Explain how land is used for different tasks in the local area.
10. Define natural resources and explain how people are dependent on them.
11. Compare and contrast natural and artificial features of the earth.
12. Describe what weather is.

Governance and Civics

1. Recognize the United States Constitution as the basis for the laws in our country.
2. Categorize rules and laws we follow as members of a family, school and community.
3. Explain the purpose of government.
4. Understand that community governments employ various service workers.
5. Identify leaders in the community, state, and nation.
6. Describe the relationship between local, state, and national government.
7. Define citizenship and responsibility.
8. Examine the rights and responsibilities in their community, state and country (i.e. family, peer group, school class).
9. Design a set of rules or laws for a home, classroom, or community.
10. Explain the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance.
11. Understand that voting is a way of making choices and decisions.
12. Explain how selected customs, symbols, and celebrations reflect an American love of individualism and inventiveness.
13. Explain selected national and state patriotic symbols such as the United States and Tennessee flags.

History

1. Recognize the development and change of early forms of communication.
2. Recognize that other countries have a longer history than the United States.
3. Identify contributions of diverse historical figures.
4. Distinguish between the past, present, and future.
5. Recognize major events in American history.

Science Standards

Life Science

a) Use magnifiers to observe smaller parts of larger objects.

b) Observe and describe what happens when an object loses a part.

c) Identify characteristics of living and non-living things.

d) Recognize living things use senses to interact with their environment.

e) Collect information about organisms that occupy specific environments.

f) Recognize that there are various kinds of pollution.

g) Identify the basic parts of plants and animals.

h) Describe similarities and differences between parents and their offspring.

i) Classify organisms according to their environment. 

Earth and Space Science

a. Recognize that the sun is the earth’s closest star.

b. Recognize the moon as the closest object in the universe to the earth.

c. Recognize that there are tools for observing objects in the day and nighttime sky.

d. Observe and illustrate the position of the sun at different times of the day.

e. Recognize that weather conditions are constantly changing with seasons.

f. Associate temperature, precipitation, and wind speed/ direction with various types of weather.

g. Identify the appropriate tool for measuring temperature, precipitation, and wind speed/direction.

h. Associate clothing and activities with temperature, precipitation and wind speed/ direction.

i. Distinguish between land and water environments.

j. Identify ways that earth resources benefit man.

Physical Science

a) Observe and describe how the movement of an object can be changed (e.g. push/pull, fast/slow).

b) Recognize that magnets can move objects without touching them (i.e. attract, repel)

c) Compare objects according to weight, length, and size.

d) Classify objects by materials of which they are made (i.e. cloth, paper, wood and metal)

e) Recognize that substances can be combined and retain individual properties (i.e. salt and pepper)

f) Describe the effect of the sun’s energy on different materials.