1st Grade ELA (Oregon Common Core)

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• ELA.1.RF.1 Understand how print is organized and its basic features, to help comprehension.
  • a. Recognize what makes a group of words a sentence.
• ELA.1.RF.2 Understand spoken words, syllables and individual sounds.
  • a. Hear the difference between long and short vowels in spoken one-syllable words.
  • b. Blend up to six sounds, including consonant clusters, into one-syllable words.
  • c. Pick out the first, middle vowel and last sounds in spoken one-syllable words.
  • d. Split spoken one-syllable words into each of their sounds (up to six).
• ELA.1.RF.3 Use phonics and word analysis to read and spell words.
  • a. Know the sounds of common consonant digraphs.
  • b. Read and spell regular one-syllable words.
  • c. Know silent-e and common vowel-team spellings for long vowels.
  • d. Count syllables in a written word using the rule of one vowel sound per syllable.
  • e. Read and spell simple two-syllable words by splitting them into syllables.
  • f. Read words with endings such as -s, -ed and -ing.
  • g. Recognize and read irregular words.
• ELA.1.RF.4 Read grade-level text accurately, at a good pace and with expression to support understanding.
  • a. Read with a clear purpose and understanding.
  • b. Read aloud accurately, at a suitable pace and with expression.
  • c. Use context to confirm or fix word reading and meaning, rereading when needed.

Reading Literature (RL)

• ELA.1.RL.1 Ask and answer direct questions about key ideas in a story and make inferences backed by the text.
• ELA.1.RL.2 Retell a story with key details and explain its main message, lesson or moral.
• ELA.1.RL.3 Describe characters, settings and main events, using key details to show how the plot develops.
• ELA.1.RL.4 Pick out language in stories and poems that expresses feelings or appeals to the senses.
• ELA.1.RL.5 Explain major differences between storybooks and information books, including straight-line, non-linear and circular structures.
• ELA.1.RL.6 Work out who is telling the story at different points.
• ELA.1.RL.7 Use pictures and details to describe characters, setting or events.
• ELA.1.RL.9 Compare what happens to different story characters and what they go through.
• ELA.1.RL.10 With prompting and support, use decoding and comprehension strategies flexibly on suitably complex literature.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• ELA.1.RI.1 Ask and answer direct questions about main ideas and facts in nonfiction, backing sensible conclusions.
• ELA.1.RI.2 Name the main topic of a nonfiction text and retell key facts that show its central idea.
• ELA.1.RI.3 Explain how people, events, ideas or information connect in a nonfiction text.
• ELA.1.RI.4 Ask and answer questions to work out the meaning of words and phrases in grade-level nonfiction.
• ELA.1.RI.5 Use text features such as headings, glossaries, captions and indexes to find key facts.
• ELA.1.RI.6 Tell information shown in pictures apart from information given by the words.
• ELA.1.RI.7 Use visuals, pictures and details to describe the key ideas of a nonfiction text.
• ELA.1.RI.8 Find the reasons an author gives for points in a text.
• ELA.1.RI.9 Spot basic likenesses and differences between two or more texts on one topic.
• ELA.1.RI.10 With prompting and support, use decoding and comprehension strategies flexibly on grade 1 informational texts.

Writing (W)

• ELA.1.W.1 With scaffolding, draw, dictate and write opinion pieces that give a topic, an opinion and reasons.
  • a. Introduce the topic.
  • b. Give reasons and details for the opinion.
  • c. Use simple linking words to organize ideas.
  • d. Give an ending.
• ELA.1.W.2 With scaffolding, draw, dictate and write informative pieces that introduce a topic with some facts.
  • a. Introduce the topic.
  • b. Add detailed information that develops the topic.
  • c. Use simple joining words inside sentences.
  • d. Use simple linking words between ideas.
  • e. Give an ending.
• ELA.1.W.3 With scaffolding, draw, dictate and write narratives of real or imagined experiences in a clear order.
  • a. Retell one or more events, memories or ideas.
  • b. Include details about actions, thoughts and feelings.
  • c. Use time-order words and phrases.
  • d. Give an ending.
• ELA.1.W.5 With guidance, stay on topic, respond to classmates' feedback and add details to improve writing.
• ELA.1.W.6 With scaffolding, use digital tools and handwriting to produce and publish writing, alone or with others.
• ELA.1.W.7 Join in shared research and writing projects.
• ELA.1.W.8 With scaffolding, gather information from experience or given sources to answer a question.

Language (L)

• ELA.1.L.1 Use standard English grammar and usage correctly in writing and speech.
  • a. Print all capital and lowercase letters.
  • b. Use common, proper and possessive nouns.
  • c. Match singular and plural nouns with the right verb in simple sentences.
  • d. Use personal, possessive and indefinite pronouns.
  • e. Use verbs for past, present and future.
  • f. Use common adjectives.
  • g. Use common conjunctions.
  • h. Use determiners such as articles.
  • i. Use common prepositions.
  • j. Build and extend simple and compound sentences of different kinds when prompted.
• ELA.1.L.2 Show control of capital letters, punctuation and spelling when writing.
  • a. Capitalize proper nouns, including dates and names of people.
  • b. Use end punctuation correctly.
  • c. Use commas in dates and between items in a list.
  • d. Spell common patterns and frequent irregular words correctly.
  • e. Spell unfamiliar words by sound using sound awareness and spelling rules.
• ELA.1.L.4 Use strategies flexibly to work out unknown and multiple-meaning words in grade 1 reading and content.
  • a. Use the sentence as a clue to a word's meaning.
  • b. Recognize common affixes and how they change meaning.
  • c. Recognize common root words and their inflected forms.
• ELA.1.L.5 With scaffolding, show understanding of how words relate and differ slightly in meaning.
  • a. Sort words into groups to understand ideas.
  • b. Define words by category and key features.
  • c. Link words to real-life use and to synonyms and antonyms.
  • d. Tell apart verbs and adjectives with slightly different meanings by defining, choosing or acting them out.
• ELA.1.L.6 Use new words learned from conversation and from reading or hearing texts, including simple joining words such as because.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• ELA.1.SL.1 Take part in group conversations with varied partners about grade 1 topics and texts.
  • a. Follow agreed rules for discussion.
  • b. Stay on topic and build on others' comments over several turns.
  • c. Ask questions to clear up confusion about topics and texts.
• ELA.1.SL.2 Ask and answer questions on the key details of something read aloud or shared by speech or media.
• ELA.1.SL.3 Question a speaker and answer questions about what was said, to learn more or clear up confusion.
• ELA.1.SL.4 Talk about people, places, things and events using relevant detail and express ideas and feelings clearly.
• ELA.1.SL.5 Add drawings or visuals to descriptions when they help make ideas and feelings clearer.
• ELA.1.SL.6 Speak in complete sentences when the task and situation call for it.