1st Grade ELA (Iowa Core)

Reading: Literature (RL)

• RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about the important details of a story.
• RL.1.2 Retell stories with key details and explain the central message or lesson.
• RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings and main events using key details.
• RL.1.4 In stories or poems, spot language that hints at feelings or appeals to the senses.
• RL.1.5 Explain the main differences between storybooks and books that give information.
• RL.1.6 Identify who is telling the story at different points in a text.
• RL.1.7 Use pictures and details to describe characters, setting or events.
• RL.1.9 Compare what happens to characters in stories and how they react.
• RL.1.10 With help, read stories and poems suited to grade 1.

Reading: Informational Text (RI)

• RI.1.1 Ask and answer questions about the important details of a text.
• RI.1.2 Name the main topic and retell important details.
• RI.1.3 Describe the link between two people, events, ideas or pieces of information.
• RI.1.4 Ask and answer questions to work out or clarify what words and phrases mean.
• RI.1.5 Use text features such as headings, contents pages, glossaries and icons to find key facts.
• RI.1.6 Tell apart information given by pictures and information given by words.
• RI.1.7 Use pictures and details to describe key ideas.
• RI.1.8 Find the reasons an author offers for each point.
• RI.1.9 Spot basic likenesses and differences in two texts about one topic.
• RI.1.10 With help, read informational texts suited to grade 1.

Reading: Foundational Skills (RF)

• RF.1.1a Recognize the features of a sentence, such as a capital first word and end punctuation.
• RF.1.2a Tell long from short vowel sounds in one-syllable words.
• RF.1.2b Blend sounds, including consonant blends, to say one-syllable words.
• RF.1.2c Isolate and say the first, middle vowel and last sounds in one-syllable words.
• RF.1.2d Segment one-syllable words into their full sequence of sounds.
• RF.1.3a Decode and spell one-syllable words with common consonant digraphs.
• RF.1.3b Decode and spell regular one-syllable closed-syllable words, including ones with blends.
• RF.1.3c Decode and spell one-syllable words with final -e, and decode common vowel teams for long vowels.
• RF.1.3d Use the rule that every syllable has a vowel sound to count syllables.
• RF.1.3e Decode two-syllable words by splitting them into syllables.
• RF.1.3f With help, decode and spell words with inflectional endings such as -ed, -ing, -s/-es and -er.
• RF.1.3g Read grade-level high-frequency words accurately and automatically.
• RF.1.4a Read texts at grade level with a clear purpose and real understanding.
• RF.1.4b Use decoding to self-correct word reading, rereading when needed.
• RF.1.4c Read grade-level text aloud accurately, at a suitable rate and with expression over repeated readings.

Writing Foundations (WF)

• WF.1.1a Write upper- and lowercase print letters and numerals correctly, with good size, line use and spacing.
• WF.1.1b Produce manuscript writing accurately and automatically.

Writing (W)

• W.1.1 Write opinion pieces that name the topic or book, give an opinion and a reason, and close.
• W.1.2 Write informative pieces that name a topic, give some facts and close.
• W.1.3 Write narratives that tell two or more events in order with some details and time words, and close.
• W.1.5 With guidance, stay on topic, respond to peers' feedback and add details.
• W.1.6 With guidance, use digital tools to create and share writing, including with classmates.
• W.1.7 Join shared projects, e.g. using how-to books to write a set of instructions.
• W.1.8 With guidance, recall experiences or gather information to answer a question.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• SL.1.1 Join group talks with classmates and adults about grade 1 topics.
  • a. Follow agreed rules for discussion, such as listening, staying on topic and taking turns.
  • b. Build on what others say across several exchanges.
  • c. Ask questions to clear up confusion about the topic.
• SL.1.2 Ask and answer questions about the topic and important details of a read-aloud or media.
• SL.1.3 Ask and answer questions about a speaker's words to learn more or clear up confusion.
• SL.1.4 Talk about people, places, things and events with fitting details, sharing ideas and feelings clearly.
• SL.1.5 Add drawings or visuals when they help make ideas clear.
• SL.1.6 Speak clearly enough to be heard, in full sentences, when retelling or reciting.

Language (L)

• L.1.1 Show control of standard English grammar and usage in speech and writing.
  • a. Use common, proper and possessive nouns.
  • b. Match singular and plural nouns with the right verbs in simple sentences.
  • c. Use personal, possessive and indefinite pronouns.
  • d. Use verbs to show past, present and future.
  • e. Use common adjectives.
  • f. Use common conjunctions such as and, but and because.
  • g. Use determiners such as articles and demonstratives.
  • h. Use common prepositions.
  • i. Build and extend simple and compound sentences of all four types in response to prompts.
• L.1.2 Show control of capital letters, punctuation and spelling in writing.
  • a. Capitalize dates and people's names.
  • b. Use end punctuation.
  • c. Use commas in dates and between single words in a list.
  • d. Spell words with common patterns and common irregular words correctly.
• L.1.4 Figure out new and multiple-meaning words met in grade 1 reading and content, using several strategies.
  • a. Use the sentence as a clue to a word's meaning.
  • b. Use the meanings of known words to predict compound words.
  • c. Use common affixes as meaning clues.
  • d. Identify common root words and their inflected forms.
• L.1.5 With adult help, show understanding of how words relate and differ slightly in meaning.
  • a. Sort words into categories to build the idea behind each category.
  • b. Define words by category plus one or more key features.
  • c. Connect words to real life, e.g. naming cozy places at home.
  • d. Tell apart verbs that differ in manner and adjectives that differ in strength by defining, choosing or acting them out.
• L.1.6 Use words and phrases picked up from talk and reading, including simple conjunctions such as because.