1st Grade ELA (Mississippi CCR Standards)

Reading Literature (RL)

• RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about important details in a text.
• RL.1.2 Retell stories and show understanding of their central message.
• RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events using key details.
• RL.1.4 Find words in stories and poems that suggest feelings or call on the senses.
• RL.1.5 Explain how storybooks differ from books that give information.
• RL.1.6 Identify who is telling the story at different points.
• RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details to describe characters, setting, or events.
• RL.1.8 (Not applicable to literature.)
• RL.1.9 Compare what different characters go through in stories.
• RL.1.10 With prompting, read prose and poetry suited to grade 1.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• RI.1.1 Ask and answer questions about important details in a text.
• RI.1.2 Name the main topic and retell key details.
• RI.1.3 Describe a connection between two people, events, ideas, or pieces of information.
• RI.1.4 Ask and answer questions to work out word meanings.
• RI.1.5 Use text features to find key facts.
• RI.1.6 Tell apart information given by pictures and by words.
• RI.1.7 Use illustrations and details to describe key ideas.
• RI.1.8 Name the reasons an author gives for the points in a text.
• RI.1.9 Spot what is alike and different in two texts on one topic.
• RI.1.10 With prompting, read informational texts suited to grade 1.

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• RF.1.1 Understand how print is organized and its basic features.
  • a. Recognize features of a sentence such as the first word, capital letter, and end punctuation.
• RF.1.2 Understand spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
  • a. Tell long and short vowel sounds apart in spoken one-syllable words.
  • b. Blend sounds, including consonant blends, into one-syllable words.
  • c. Isolate the first, middle vowel, and last sounds in spoken words.
  • d. Split one-syllable words into all their single sounds.
• RF.1.3 Use grade-level phonics and word analysis to decode words.
  • a. Know the spelling-sound patterns of common consonant digraphs.
  • b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  • c. Know final-e and common vowel team spellings for long vowels.
  • d. Use the rule that every syllable has a vowel sound to count syllables.
  • e. Decode two-syllable words by breaking them into syllables.
  • f. Read words with inflectional endings.
  • g. Use letter-sound knowledge to read irregularly spelled words.
• RF.1.4 Read accurately and fluently enough to support understanding.
  • a. Read grade-level text with a purpose and understand it.
  • b. Read grade-level text aloud accurately and with expression.
  • c. Use context to confirm or correct word reading.

Writing (W)

• W.1.1 Write opinion pieces with a reason and a sense of closure.
• W.1.2 Write informative texts that name a topic, give facts, and close.
• W.1.3 Write narratives with events in order, details, and closure.
• W.1.4 (Begins in grade 3) Production and distribution of writing.
• W.1.5 With adult help, stay on topic and add details.
• W.1.6 With adult help, use digital tools to produce and publish writing.
• W.1.7 Take part in shared research and writing projects.
• W.1.8 With adult help, recall or gather information to answer a question.
• W.1.9 (Begins in grade 4) Drawing evidence from texts for research.
• W.1.10 (Begins in grade 3) Range of writing.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• SL.1.1 Take part in conversations with others about grade 1 topics.
  • a. Follow agreed rules for discussion carefully.
  • b. Build on what others say through several exchanges.
  • c. Ask questions to clear up confusion.
• SL.1.2 Ask and answer questions about important details in a text read aloud or in other media.
• SL.1.3 Ask and answer questions about a speaker's words.
• SL.1.4 Describe people, places, things, and events, adding relevant detail.
• SL.1.5 Add drawings or other visual displays when suitable.
• SL.1.6 Speak in complete sentences when suited to the task.

Language (L)

• L.1.1 Use standard English grammar and usage.
  • a. Print all capital and lowercase letters.
  • b. Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.
  • c. Match singular and plural nouns with the right verbs.
  • d. Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns.
  • e. Use verbs to show past, present, and future.
  • f. Use common adjectives.
  • g. Use common conjunctions.
  • h. Use determiners such as articles and demonstratives.
  • i. Use common prepositions.
  • j. Make and expand complete sentences of different types.
• L.1.2 Use standard capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
  • a. Capitalize dates and names of people.
  • b. Use end punctuation for sentences.
  • c. Use commas in dates and in a series.
  • d. Spell common patterns and frequent irregular words correctly.
  • e. Spell untaught words phonetically.
• L.1.3 (Begins in grade 2) Knowledge of language.
• L.1.4 Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words.
  • a. Use sentence context as a clue to meaning.
  • b. Use common affixes as clues to meaning.
  • c. Recognize common root words and their inflected forms.
• L.1.5 Understand word relationships and small differences in meaning.
  • a. Sort words into categories to show the concepts.
  • b. Define words by category and key attributes.
  • c. Link words to real-life uses.
  • d. Tell apart shades of meaning in verbs and adjectives.
• L.1.6 Use words learned through conversation, reading, and texts, including simple conjunctions.