First Grade Focus Areas
English Language Arts
*Describe characters/settings/events
*Distinguish between fiction/non-fiction
*Compare/contrast stories
*Recognize features of a sentence
*Phonics-blend, isolate vowels, decode
*Write opinion piece with reasons
*Write explanatory piece with facts
*Write narrative with sequence
*Recognize a minimum of 225 sight words
*Read for fluency
Mathematics
*Develop an understanding of addition, subtraction, and strategies for addition and subtraction within 20
*Develop an understanding of whole number relationships and place value, including grouping in tens and ones
*Develop an understanding of linear measurement and measuring lengths as iterating length units
*Reason about attributes of, and compose and decompose geometric shapes