A GLANCE AT FIRST GRADE

Reading

--comprehension

--building vocabulary

--dictionary, glossary

--summarizing

--fact/fiction

--plot, setting, characterization

--making predictions

--recalling details

--main idea

--cause/effect

--decoding unfamiliar words

--building fluency

--reading with expression 

English

--capitalization

--punctuation

--writing in complete sentences

--nouns and pronouns (singular and plural)

--possessives

--multiple meaning words

--synonyms/antonyms

--types of sentences

--commas

--writing process

--quotation marks

--combining sentences

--transition words

Math

--adding/subtracting up to 2-digits without regrouping

--telling time

--geometry

--fractions

--measurement

--graphs and tables

--place value

--equality/inequality symbols

--problem solving

 

Science

 --weather patterns/seasons

--sound

--shadows (light)

--magnets

--living things

Social Studies

--historical figures

--heroes and citizenship

--geography (features of the earth)

--basic economics (goods, services, and scarcity)