1st Grade ELA (Colorado Academic Standards)

Standard 1: Oral Expression and Listening

• RWC.1.1.1 Share and take in information through words, gestures and body language. (being checked)
  • 1. Join group talks with different partners about grade 1 topics and texts.
  • 1.a. Follow agreed discussion rules such as listening carefully and taking turns.
  • 1.b. Keep conversations going by responding to others over several exchanges.
  • 1.c. Ask questions when something in a discussion is unclear.
  • 2. Ask and answer questions about main details from read-alouds or media.
  • 3. Ask and answer questions about a speaker's words to find out more or clear things up.
• RWC.1.1.2 Use several methods to build speaking skills. (being checked)
  • 1. Describe people, places, things and events with fitting details, sharing ideas and feelings clearly.
  • 2. Add drawings or visuals to descriptions to make ideas or feelings clearer.
  • 3. Use complete sentences when the task and setting call for them.
  • 4. Give and follow simple two-step directions.

Standard 2: Reading for All Purposes

• RWC.1.2.1 Use basic reading strategies to read and understand stories and poems fluently. (being checked)
  • 1. Key ideas and details
  • 1.a. Ask and answer questions about important details in a story.
  • 1.b. Retell stories with key details and explain the central message or lesson.
  • 1.c. Describe characters, settings and big events using key details.
  • 1.d. Predict what will happen, then check predictions against evidence in the text.
  • 2. Craft and structure
  • 2.a. Spot words and phrases in a story or poem that show feelings or call on the senses.
  • 2.b. Explain big differences between storybooks and informational books.
  • 2.c. Identify who is telling the story at different points.
  • 2.d. Follow and reproduce the patterns in predictable poems.
  • 3. Integration of knowledge and ideas
  • 3.a. Use pictures and details to describe characters, setting or events.
  • 3.b. Compare what characters go through in different stories.
  • 4. Range of reading and text complexity
  • 4.a. With prompting and support, read grade 1 stories and poems.
• RWC.1.2.2 Use basic reading strategies to read and understand nonfiction fluently. (being checked)
  • 1. Key ideas and details
  • 1.a. Ask and answer questions about important details in a nonfiction text.
  • 1.b. Name the main topic and retell key details.
  • 1.c. Explain how two people, events, ideas or facts in a text are connected.
  • 1.d. Use prior knowledge and background to build meaning.
  • 2. Craft and structure
  • 2.a. Ask and answer questions to clarify words and phrases in a text.
  • 2.b. Use text features such as headings, contents pages, glossaries and icons to find facts.
  • 2.c. Tell apart what the pictures show from what the words say.
  • 3. Integration of knowledge and ideas
  • 3.a. Use pictures and details to describe key ideas.
  • 3.b. Identify the reasons an author gives for points in a text.
  • 3.c. Find basic likenesses and differences between two texts on one topic.
  • 4. Range of reading and text complexity
  • 4.a. With prompting and support, read grade 1 informational texts.
• RWC.1.2.3 Build basic reading skills by studying word parts, relationships and word families. (being checked)
  • 1. Understand how print is organized and its basic features.
  • 1.a. Recognize what marks a sentence: first word, capital letter and end punctuation.
  • 2. Understand spoken words, syllables and sounds.
  • 2.a. Tell long from short vowel sounds in spoken one-syllable words.
  • 2.b. Blend sounds, including consonant blends, to say one-syllable words.
  • 2.c. Isolate and say the first, middle vowel and final sounds in one-syllable words.
  • 2.d. Split spoken one-syllable words into all their sounds.
  • 3. Use grade-level phonics and word analysis to decode words.
  • 3.a. Know the spellings that match common consonant digraphs.
  • 3.b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  • 3.c. Know silent-e and vowel-team spellings for long vowels.
  • 3.d. Use the fact that each syllable has a vowel sound to count syllables.
  • 3.e. Decode simple two-syllable words by breaking them into syllables.
  • 3.f. Read words with inflectional endings.
  • 3.g. Read grade-level words with irregular spellings.
  • 3.h. Make new words by changing the start of a rime, e.g. ip to dip or lip.
  • 3.i. Decode unknown words that follow a predictable letter-sound pattern.
  • 3.j. Read accurately and fluently enough to understand.
  • 3.j.a. Read on-level text with a purpose and understand it.
  • 3.j.b. Read grade-level text aloud accurately, at a good pace and with expression.
  • 3.j.c. Use context to confirm or correct word reading, rereading when needed.
  • 3.k. Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words using a range of strategies.
  • 3.k.a. Use sentence context as a clue to meaning.
  • 3.k.b. Use common affixes as clues to meaning.
  • 3.k.c. Identify common root words and their inflected forms.
  • 3.k.d. Identify and understand compound words.
  • 3.l. With adult guidance, show understanding of word relationships and shades of meaning.
  • 3.l.a. Sort words into categories to understand the ideas they stand for.
  • 3.l.b. Define words by their category and one or more key features.
  • 3.l.c. Link words to real-life situations where they are used.
  • 3.l.d. Tell apart shades of meaning in verbs and adjectives by defining, choosing or acting them out.
  • 3.m. Use words and phrases from talk, reading and responding to texts, including simple conjunctions such as because.

Standard 3: Writing and Composition

• RWC.1.3.1 Write an opinion supported by reasons. (being checked)
  • 1. Introduce the topic or name the book being discussed.
  • 2. State an opinion.
  • 3. Give a reason for the opinion.
  • 4. Give a sense of closure.
• RWC.1.3.2 Write informative texts that name a topic, add facts and close. (being checked)
  • 1. Name a topic.
  • 2. Give some facts about the topic.
  • 3. Give a sense of closure.
• RWC.1.3.3 Tell real or imagined events in order, with details and closure. (being checked)
  • 1. Recount two or more events in a sensible order.
  • 2. Include some details about what happened.
  • 3. Give a sense of closure.
• RWC.1.3.4 Use correct grammar, spelling, capitalization and punctuation. (being checked)
  • 1. Use standard English grammar when writing or speaking.
  • 1.a. Print all upper- and lowercase letters.
  • 1.b. Use common, proper and possessive nouns.
  • 1.c. Match singular and plural nouns with the right verbs in simple sentences.
  • 1.d. Use personal, possessive and indefinite pronouns.
  • 1.e. Use verbs to show past, present and future.
  • 1.f. Use common adjectives.
  • 1.g. Use common conjunctions.
  • 1.h. Use determiners such as articles and demonstratives.
  • 1.i. Use common prepositions.
  • 1.j. Produce and expand simple and compound sentences of several kinds when prompted.
  • 2. Use standard capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing.
  • 2.a. Write complete simple sentences.
  • 2.b. Capitalize dates and people's names.
  • 2.c. Use end punctuation.
  • 2.d. Use commas in dates and between single words in a list.
  • 2.e. Spell common patterns and frequent irregular words correctly.
  • 2.f. Spell untaught words by sound, using spelling conventions.
  • 3. With adult support, stay on topic, respond to peers' ideas and add details.
  • 4. With adult support, use digital tools to create and share writing, alone or with peers.

Standard 4: Research Inquiry and Design

• RWC.1.4.1 Take part in shared research and gather information to answer questions. (being checked)
  • 1. Join shared research and writing, e.g. reading how-to books and writing instructions.
  • 2. Write or dictate questions that come up during lessons.
  • 3. With peers, use sources such as observation and read-alouds to answer questions.
  • 4. Use text features such as titles, pictures and headings to find information.
  • 5. Name a clear reason for doing research.
  • 6. With adult help, recall experiences or use given sources to answer a question.