1st Grade ELA (Alaska Standards)

Reading Standards for Literature

• RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about the important details of a story.
• RL.1.2 Retell stories with key details and show understanding of the central message or lesson.
• RL.1.3 Describe the characters, setting, major events and problem in a story, using key details.
• RL.1.4 Spot words in stories or poems that point to feelings or to the senses.
• RL.1.5 Explain major differences between fiction, nonfiction and poetry, drawing on wide reading.
• RL.1.6 Identify who is telling the story at different points in a text.
• RL.1.7 Describe a story's characters, setting or events using its pictures and details.
• RL.1.9 With support, find likenesses and differences in what characters in stories go through.
• RL.1.10 With prompting and support, read grade 1 prose and poetry, including texts from diverse cultures.

Reading Standards for Informational Text

• RI.1.1 Use prior knowledge to ask and answer questions about an informational text's important details.
• RI.1.2 Identify the main topic and purpose of a text and retell its key details.
• RI.1.3 Explain how two people, events, ideas or facts in a text are linked.
• RI.1.4 Use questions to figure out or check what words and phrases mean.
• RI.1.5 Use text features such as titles, headings and labels to find key facts.
• RI.1.6 Tell apart information given by pictures and information given by the words.
• RI.1.7 Describe a text's main ideas using its pictures and details.
• RI.1.8 Identify the opinions or reasons that back up an author's points in a text.
• RI.1.9 Spot simple ways two texts about one topic are alike and different.
• RI.1.10 With prompting and support, read a range of grade 1 informational texts.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

• RF.1.1 Show understanding of how print is organized and its basic features.
  • a. Recognize what marks a sentence (first-word capital, end punctuation).
• RF.1.2 Show awareness of spoken words, their syllables and their individual sounds (phonemes).
  • a. Tell long from short vowel sounds in spoken one-syllable words.
  • b. Blend sounds orally, including consonant blends, to say one-syllable words.
  • c. Isolate and say the first, middle vowel and last sounds in spoken one-syllable words.
  • d. Break spoken one-syllable words into every one of their sounds.
• RF.1.3 Use grade-level phonics and word-analysis skills to sound out and read words.
  • a. Know the sounds of common consonant digraphs (e.g. th, sh, ch).
  • b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  • c. Know final -e and common vowel teams for long vowel sounds.
  • d. Count the syllables in a written word by listening for its vowel sounds.
  • e. Read two-syllable words by splitting them into syllables.
  • f. Read words with inflectional endings such as -s, -ed and -ing.
  • g. Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
• RF.1.4 Read with enough accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
  • a. Read texts at grade level with a clear purpose and understanding.
  • b. Read grade-level text aloud accurately, at a suitable rate and with expression, over repeated readings.
  • c. Use context to confirm or correct word reading, rereading as needed.

Writing Standards

• W.1.1 Write opinion pieces that name the topic and state an opinion supported by facts or feelings, with closure.
• W.1.2 Write informative texts that name a topic, give some facts and end with closure.
• W.1.3 Write narratives of two or more events in order, with details, time words and an ending.
• W.1.5 With adult guidance, focus on a topic and add details, including sensory details, to strengthen writing.
• W.1.6 With adult help, use digital tools to create and share writing, sometimes with classmates.
• W.1.7 Join class research and writing projects, such as making a how-to book of step-by-step directions.
• W.1.8 With guidance and support, recall information from experience or gather it from given sources to answer a question.

Speaking and Listening Standards

• SL.1.1 Take part in conversations with different partners about grade 1 topics and texts, in small and larger groups.
  • a. Follow agreed rules for discussion, such as listening with care and taking turns.
  • b. Build on others' talk by responding to their comments over several exchanges.
  • c. Ask questions to clear up confusion about topics and texts.
• SL.1.2 Ask and answer questions about the important details of a read-aloud or a presentation.
• SL.1.3 Ask and answer questions of a speaker to get more information or clarify.
• SL.1.4 Describe people, places, things and events with fitting details, sharing ideas and feelings clearly.
• SL.1.5 Add drawings or other visuals to descriptions when they help clarify ideas, thoughts and feelings.
• SL.1.6 Speak in complete sentences when the task and situation call for it.

Language Standards

• L.1.1 Use correct standard English grammar when speaking and writing.
  • a. Print every capital and small letter.
  • b. Use common, proper and possessive nouns.
  • c. Match verbs to singular and plural nouns in simple sentences (e.g. he hops, we hop).
  • d. Use pronouns for people, ownership and unspecified things (e.g. I, their, anyone).
  • e. Use verbs to show past, present and future time.
  • f. Use frequently occurring adjectives.
  • g. Use common conjunctions (and, but, or, so, because).
  • h. Use determiners such as articles and demonstratives (a, the, this, that).
  • i. Use common prepositions (e.g. during, beyond, toward).
  • j. Make and expand simple and compound sentences of all four types (statements, questions, commands, exclamations) when prompted.
• L.1.2 Use capital letters, punctuation and spelling correctly when writing.
  • a. Capitalize dates and people's names.
  • b. Use end punctuation for sentences.
  • c. Put commas in dates and between words in a list.
  • d. Spell common spelling patterns and frequent irregular words correctly.
  • e. Spell new words by sound, using phonemic awareness and spelling rules.
• L.1.4 With guidance, work out unknown and multiple-meaning words by choosing from a range of strategies.
  • a. Use sentence context as a clue to a word's meaning.
  • b. Use common prefixes and suffixes as clues to meaning.
  • c. Recognize common root words and their inflected forms (e.g. look, looked).
• L.1.5 With guidance and support, show understanding of word relationships and shades of meaning.
  • a. Group words (e.g. colors, clothing) to understand what each category means.
  • b. Define words by category and one or more key attributes.
  • c. Find real-life links between words and their use (e.g. cozy places at home).
  • d. Tell apart verbs that differ in manner (look, peek, stare) and adjectives that differ in strength (large, gigantic).
• L.1.6 Use words and phrases learned through conversation and reading, including linking words such as because.