1st Grade ELA (New York Next Generation)

Reading (Literary and Informational)

• 1R1 (RI&RL) Ask and answer questions about the key ideas and details of a text.
• 1R2 (RI&RL) Find the main topic or central idea and retell the important details.
• 1R3 (RI&RL) Describe characters, settings and events in stories, or facts in informational texts.
• 1R4 (RI&RL) Pick out words that express feelings or appeal to the senses.
• 1R5 (RI&RL) Recognize genres and explain how literary and informational texts differ.
• 1R6 (RI&RL) Explain how pictures and details support the point of view or purpose of a text.
• 1R7 (RI&RL) Use pictures and details to talk about story elements or the topic.
• 1R8 (RI&RL) Find particular information an author or illustrator gives to back up ideas.
• 1R9 (RI&RL) Connect a text to themselves, to other texts and to the wider world.

Reading Foundations

• 1RF1 Show understanding of how print is organized and its basic features.
• 1RF1a Recognize what marks a sentence, such as the first word, a capital letter and end punctuation.
• 1RF2 Show understanding of spoken words, syllables and sounds.
• 1RF2a Count, blend and split the sounds of one-syllable words, including words with consonant blends.
• 1RF2b Make new words by changing single sounds in one-syllable words.
• 1RF2c Add, remove or swap single sounds in spoken one-syllable words.
• 1RF3 Use phonics and word analysis to decode words.
• 1RF3a Know the sounds of common blends and consonant digraphs.
• 1RF3b Read long vowel sounds in regular one-syllable words.
• 1RF3c Read regular one-syllable words.
• 1RF3d Count the syllables in a written word, knowing each syllable has a vowel sound.
• 1RF3e Read simple two-syllable words by splitting them into syllables.
• 1RF3f Recognize root words and simple suffixes.
• 1RF3g Read the most common high-frequency words on sight.
• 1RF4 Read beginning texts accurately and smoothly enough to understand them.
• 1RF4a Reread beginning texts aloud accurately, at a good pace and with expression.
• 1RF4b Use the context to check or self-correct their reading of words, rereading when needed.

Writing

• 1W1 Write an opinion about a topic or experience and give two or more reasons.
• 1W2 Write an informative piece that introduces a topic, gives facts and ends with closure.
• 1W3 Write narratives about real or imagined experiences or a short sequence of events.
• 1W4 Respond to a text, author, theme or experience creatively, for example with a poem or artwork.
• 1W6 Ask questions and join in shared research to build knowledge.
• 1W7 Recall or gather information from sources to answer a question in different ways.

Speaking and Listening

• 1SL1 Take part in group conversations with varied classmates and adults.
• 1SL1a Follow discussion rules: listen actively, take turns and stay on topic.
• 1SL1b Build on what others say over several turns.
• 1SL1c Ask questions to clear up confusion about the topic or text.
• 1SL1d Take account of individual differences when communicating with others.
• 1SL2 Ask and answer questions on the key details of texts and of information in different formats.
• 1SL3 Ask questions to clarify what a speaker says and work out the speaker's point of view.
• 1SL4 Talk about familiar people, places, things and events using relevant detail.
• 1SL5 Make or use visuals to make ideas, thoughts and feelings clearer.
• 1SL6 Express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly, in complete sentences when suitable.

Language

• 1L4 Use a range of strategies to work out unknown and multiple-meaning words.
• 1L4a Use the sentence as a clue to a word's meaning.
• 1L4b Use common affixes as clues to meaning.
• 1L4c Recognize common root words and their inflected forms.
• 1L5 Show understanding of how words relate and differ slightly in meaning.
• 1L5a Sort words into groups to understand the ideas they stand for.
• 1L5b Define words by category and one or more key features.
• 1L5c Use words to name and describe things, linking words to how they are used.
• 1L5d Tell apart verbs and adjectives with slightly different meanings by defining, choosing or acting them out.
• 1L6 Use words and phrases picked up from talk and reading, including joining words like because.