Reflecting the expectations, activities in the Language Arts (English) Grade 1 series cover:
| Reasoning and critical thinking |
- Using knowledge and experience to understand what they have read
- Story concepts; who and where, what and when, why and how
- Reading comprehension: sequencing plot events- what has happened, what will happening what happens next
- Visual discrimination: finding missing letters, shapes and objects; grouping and sorting like and unlike objects and pictures
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| Understanding form and style |
- Word patterns: using predictable word patterns from speech to determine meaning in a sentence
- Sentence structures: asking, telling and directions sentences; predicting missing words
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| Vocabulary Building |
- Phonics: initial and final consonants, consonant blends and diagraphs, short and long vowel sounds recognizing letter pairs
- Finding alphabet activities: missing letters
- Adding new words: color, weather, senses and parts of body words; rhyming words; matching numerals to number words
- Word structure: prefixes, suffixes, compound words, syllables
- Word meaning: synonyms and antonyms
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| Use of Language Conventions |
- Grammar: using plurals of single syllable words; introducing parts of speech
- Punctuation: using periods and commas
- Spelling: finding errors in words used in stories
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Also see: Grade 1 Math Curriculum
