•  English Language Arts

     

    Module 1 - Nice to Meet You!
    Module 2 - My Family, My Community
    Module 3 - Amazing Animals
    Module 4 - Better Together
    Module 5 - Now You See It, Now You Don't
    Module 6 - Celebrate America
    Module 7 - The Big Outdoors
    Module 8 - Tell Me a Story
    Module 9 - Grow, Plants, Grow!
    Module 10 - Dare to Dream

    Comprehension Skills: story structure, ask and answer questions, monitor and clarify, author's purpose, make inferences, topic and central idea, characters, text organization, retell, setting, summarize, text features, make connections, point of view, make and confirm predictions

    Phonics:
    Each week we will focus on a new phonics skill. In the beginning of the year, these sounds will be a review of what was taught in kindergarten. As the year progresses, new sounds will be introduced. These are sounds that students will be able to decode (read) and encode (spell). 

    Short Vowels a, i, o, u, e
    Suffix -s 
    Double Final Consonants (-ll, -ff, -ss, -zz)
    Digraphs CK, SH, TH, CH, WH
    Beginning L, S, and R Blends 
    Ending Blends with L, T, M, and N
    Glued Sounds NG and NK
    Single Letter Long Vowel
    Long Vowels Final E (a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e) 
    Long Vowels (ay, ai, ee, ea, oa, ow, igh, ie, ue, ew) 
    R Controlled (ar, or, er, ir, ur) 
    Final Y
    Two Sounds for OO 

    Heart Words
    Heart Words are words which students need to know by heart. Most parts of the word can be sounded out, but there is a "heart part" which is a phonics pattern that doesn't follow the typical sounds.
    First Grade Heart Words - have, the, give, live, of, was, little, you, what, who, two, from, want, come, some, one, open, they, said, to, do, into, are, were, four, your, where, there, once, could, and put. 

    Flash Words
    Flash Words are commonly used words in texts and can be sounded out "in a flash." These are decodable words which follow typical spelling patterns.