Grade 1

In first grade, students continue to learn foundational reading skills. These include orally isolating, blending, and manipulating sounds as components of words, using phonics rules to decode words following basic patterns, and recognizing irregularly spelled words. These skills work together to develop skills among first graders to read grade-level texts with accuracy and appropriate rate with purpose and understanding.

Our phonics program is Fundations, which builds on the foundation established in K with sound-spelling correspondences, spelling strategy development, and handwriting.

Students continue their writing development through the Empowering Writer's Program, which uses literature and other published examples a jumping off point for instruction. Children will see high quality writing and hear high quality stories to help them understand what their writing should look and sound like. They will then get opportunities to write their own narrative, informational, and opinion pieces. Empowering Writers also provides opportunities for students to learn about sentence structure and early grammar rules through their Sentence a Day routine. In addition to the lessons in Empowering Writers, students have multiple opportunities to write while exploring their experiences with the world around them.

We continue to work with students to participate in collaborative conversations and demonstrate the standard English grammar in speaking and in writing.

Massachusetts has adopted the Common Core State Standards, which has designated specific skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language at each grade level.

Click on the link on the side of the page and you will be able to view these standards.

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