First Grade CCSS with I can statements

1 First Grade Strand: Reading Literature Topics Standard I can statements Vocabulary Key Ideas and Ask and answer questions about key details in a I can answer all who, what, when or Details text. where questions about the story. I can ask at least one question about the story. Retell familiar stories, including key details, and I can tell what the story is about. demonstrate understanding of their central message or I can tell the important parts of the lesson. story. I can tell what the story is about and tell important parts. Describe characters, settings, and major events in a I can who was in the story. Characters story, using key details. I can where the story happened. Setting I can tell what happened in the Events story. Details I can name the characters, settings, and important parts in a story. Craft and Structure Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that I can tell how words make me feel.

2 Suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. Explain major differences between books that tell I can tell which books are stories. Fiction/narrative stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide I can tell which books tell true Non fiction reading of a range of text types. things. Informational text Fantasy Identify who is telling the story at various points in I can tell who is talking in the story. Narrator a text. Dialogue Integration of Use illustrations and details in a story to describe I can tell about the story using Illustration Knowledge and Ideas its characters, settings, or events. pictures and words. Text Relationship (Not applicable to literature) Compare and contrast the adventures and I can identify characters in the story. Compare experiences of characters in stories. I can tell how characters are Contrast different. Same/alike I can tell how characters are the Different same.

3 Range of Reading and With prompting and support, read prose and When someone helps me: Prose Level of Text poetry of appropriate complexity for Grade 1. I can listen to prose and poems. Poetry Complexity I can read prose and poems. First Grade Strand: Reading Informational Text Topics Standard I can statements Vocabulary Key Ideas and Ask and answer questions about key details in a text I can answer questions about key Question Details details in a text. Complete sentence I can ask questions about key details Key details in a text. Identify the main topic, and retell key details. I can tell what the text is about. Main idea/topic I can tell what I learned from the Details text. Retell Describe the connection between two individuals, I can tell how two people are Cause and effect events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. alike/connected. Comparison I can tell how two events are Connection alike/connected.

4 I can tell how two ideas are alike/connected. I can tell how two facts are alike/connected. Craft and Structure Ask and answer questions to help determine or I can ask questions about words I Clarification clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text. don't know. I can answer questions about words I don't know. Know and use various text features ( , headings, I can use parts of a book to find Heading table of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to information. Table of contents locate key facts or information in a text. Glossary Electronic menu Icons Text features Distinguish between information provided by I can use the pictures and words to Illustrations pictures of other illustrations and information provided by help me understand what is read. the words in a text. Integration of Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe I can use the pictures and words to Text Knowledge and Ideas its key ideas.

5 Help understand ideas. Illustration I can use pictures and words to help Details me tell about the text. Identify the reasons an author I can tell what the author wants me Reasons gives to support points in a text. to know. Text I can tell how the words the author used helped me understand. Identify basic similarities in and differences I can compare texts and say why Compare/contrast between two texts on the same topic ( , in illustrations, they are the same. Different/alike First Grade descriptions, or procedures). I can compare texts and say why Similar they are different. Range of Reading and With prompting and support, read informational When someone helps me: Non- fiction/informational Level of Text texts appropriately complex for Grade 1. I can listen to or read true stories or text Complexity texts. First Grade Strand: Reading Foundational Skills Topics Standard I can statements Vocabulary Print Concepts Demonstrate understanding of I can find the beginning of a Tracking the organization and basic features of sentence.

6 Letters print. I can find the end of a sentence. a. Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence ( , First word, capitalization, ending punctuation). Phonological Demonstrate understanding of I can hear and say long and short Blend Awareness spoken words, syllables, and sounds vowels. Syllable (phonemes). I can blend sounds to make words. Consonant a. Distinguish long from short vowel I can hear and say the beginning Vowel sounds in spoken single- syllable words. sound of a word. Beginning sound b. Orally produce single- syllable words I can hear and say the middle sound Ending sound by blending sounds (phonemes) of a word. Sound/phoneme including consonant blends. I can hear and say the ending sound c. Isolate and pronounce initial, medial of a word. vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single- syllable words. d. Segment spoken single- syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds (phonemes).

7 Phonics and Word Know and apply Grade level I can say the sounds in words. Sound Recognition phonics and word analysis skills in I can say words that end with silent Word decoding words. e. Consonant a. Know the spelling- sound I can use vowels to sound out Long vowel correspondences for common syllables. Short vowel consonant digraphs. I can break words into parts. Sight words b. Decode regularly spelled one- syllable I can read words with endings. Syllable words. I can read First Grade sight words. c. Know final e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds. d. Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word. e. Decode two- syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables. First Grade f. Read words with inflectional endings. g. Recognize and read Grade .

8 Appropriate irregularly spelled words. Fluency Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to I can think about what I read. Accurately support comprehension. I can tell why I read different kinds of Smoothly a. Read on- level text with purpose and understanding. books. With expression b. Read on- level text orally with accuracy, appropriate I can understand what I read. Strategy use rate, and expression on successive readings. Reading for meaning c. Use context to confirm or self- correct word recognition Setting a purpose and understanding, rereading as necessary. First Grade Strand: Writing Topics Standard I can statements Vocabulary Text Types and Write informative/explanatory pieces, in which I can write about what I think and Opinion Purposes they introduce the topic or the name of the book they are tell why I think that. Closure writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.

9 Write informative/explanatory texts in which they I can write about a real topic Non- fiction/informational name what they are writing about and supply some facts including some facts. text about the topic, and provide some closure. Explanatory Topic Closure Write narratives in which they recount two or more I can write about the order of things Narrative appropriately sequenced events, include some details, that happened in a book I read or Sequence of events regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal heard. Temporal Words event order, and provide some sense of closure. I can use words that show order. Production and (Begins in Grade 3) Distribution of Writing With guidance and support from adults, focus on a When someone helps me: Revise topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, I can use suggestions to add details Edit and add details to strengthen writing as needed.

10 To make my writing better. Details With guidance and support from adults, use a When someone helps me: Publish variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, in I can use technology to help to write Produce collaboration with peers. a story. Collaborate I can use technology to share my Digital Tools writing. Research to Build and Participate in shared research and writing projects I can investigate things I am Research Present Knowledge ( , explore a number of how- to books on a given topic interested in, with others. Opinions and use them to write a sequence of instructions). I can write about things I learn. Fact I can find facts. I can write a book with my classmates. With guidance and support from When someone helps me: Recall adults, recall information from experiences I can answer questions in my writing. Sources or gather information from provided I can find answers to my questions in Background knowledge sources to answer a question.