1st Grade ELA (South Dakota Content Standards)

Reading Literature (RL)

• 1.RL.1 Ask and answer questions about the main ideas and details of a text.
• 1.RL.2 Retell stories with key details and identify the central message or lesson.
• 1.RL.3 Describe characters, settings and main events using key details.
• 1.RL.4 Identify literal and nonliteral words and phrases, including words for feelings and the senses.
• 1.RL.5 Explain the main differences between common text structures and genres.
• 1.RL.6 Use words, pictures and details to identify purpose and/or point of view.
• 1.RL.7 Describe characters, setting or events in print or digital texts with words, pictures and details.
• 1.RL.9 Describe what a theme is and name common themes such as honesty or bravery.
• 1.RL.10 By year end, read and make sense of many kinds of literary texts.
  • a. Read grade-level texts of growing difficulty and complexity.
  • b. With prompting and support, choose texts for enjoyment, interest and schoolwork.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• 1.RI.1 Ask and answer questions about the main ideas and details of a text.
• 1.RI.2 Name the main topic and retell important details.
• 1.RI.3 Compare people, events, ideas or information in a text.
• 1.RI.4 Explore the meanings of words and phrases in different contexts.
• 1.RI.5 Recognize text features and how they relate to each other or the whole.
• 1.RI.6 Identify the purpose and/or point of view of a text.
• 1.RI.7 Describe main ideas in print and digital texts with words or pictures.
• 1.RI.8 Identify the details or evidence an author uses to support points.
• 1.RI.9 Compare two texts on related topics to grow knowledge.
• 1.RI.10 By year end, read and make sense of many kinds of informational texts.
  • a. Read grade-level informational texts of growing difficulty and complexity.
  • b. With guidance and support, choose informational texts for enjoyment, interest and schoolwork.

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• 1.RF.1 Understand print concepts and how sentences are built.
  • a. Know that sentences follow a logical order.
  • b. Recognize key sentence features: first word, capital letter and end punctuation.
• 1.RF.2 Identify, blend and segment the sounds in spoken words.
  • a. Isolate and identify single sounds in spoken words.
  • b. Recognize beginning, ending and middle sounds.
  • c. Identify sounds that different words share.
  • d. Tell apart similar sounds such as /p/ and /b/.
  • e. Sort words by shared sounds.
  • f. Sort words by where a sound comes (beginning, middle, end).
  • g. Blend sounds to make words.
  • h. Segment spoken words into single sounds.
  • i. Break longer words into syllables and sounds.
  • j. Delete given sounds to make new words.
  • k. Add sounds to words to make new words.
  • l. Swap one sound in a word to make a new word.
• 1.RF.3 Decode and spell using grade-level phonics and word analysis.
  • a. Tell long and short vowel sounds apart in regular one-syllable words.
  • b. Use letter–sound matches for consonants, vowels, digraphs and blends.
  • c. Decode and spell regularly spelled one-syllable words in context.
  • d. Decode common vowel teams for long vowel sounds.
  • e. Read words with inflectional endings and see how they change meaning or tense.
  • f. Know every syllable has a vowel sound and use this to count syllables.
  • g. Decode two-syllable words by splitting them into syllables using open and closed patterns.
  • h. Read and spell grade-level high-frequency words.
• 1.RF.4 Read accurately and fluently enough to support understanding.
  • a. Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
  • b. Read aloud accurately, at a good pace and with expression over repeated readings.
  • c. Check reading for accuracy and understanding, rereading when needed.

Language (L)

• 1.L.1 Follow standard English grammar and usage in speech and writing.
  • a. Use common, proper and possessive nouns.
  • b. Match singular and plural nouns and pronouns with their verbs.
  • c. Use personal, possessive and indefinite pronouns.
  • d. Use verbs to show past, present and future.
  • e. Use common adjectives.
  • f. Use common conjunctions.
  • g. Use determiners such as a, an, the, this, that, these and those.
  • h. Use common position prepositions such as under, around, over and beside.
  • i. Make and expand simple and compound sentences of all four types in response to prompts.
• 1.L.2 Use standard capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing.
  • a. Capitalize the first word of a sentence, the pronoun I, dates and people's names.
  • b. Form letters correctly and fluently and space letters, words and sentences well.
  • c. Use end punctuation.
  • d. Use commas in dates.
  • e. Spell words with common grade-level patterns correctly.
  • f. Spell grade-level high-frequency words.
  • g. Spell untaught words phonetically using sound knowledge and spelling rules.
• 1.L.4 Figure out new and multiple-meaning words with a flexible set of strategies.
  • a. Use clues in the sentence to find a word's meaning.
  • b. Use common prefixes and suffixes to find meaning.
  • c. Recognize common root words and their inflected forms, e.g. look, looks, looked, looking.
• 1.L.5 With guidance, understand word relationships and shades of meaning.
  • a. Sort words into categories.
  • b. Group words by one or more key attributes.
  • c. Link words to real-life use.
  • d. Tell apart similar verbs and adjectives, e.g. look, peek, glance, by defining, choosing or acting them out.
• 1.L.6 Use grade-level words in reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Writing (W)

• 1.W.1 Write opinion pieces.
  • a. Introduce an opinion about a topic.
  • b. Give reasons for the opinion.
  • c. Include a concluding statement.
• 1.W.2 Write informative pieces.
  • a. Name a topic.
  • b. Include facts about the topic.
  • c. Include a concluding statement.
• 1.W.3 Write narratives.
  • a. Recount two or more events in a logical order.
  • b. Include details about what happened.
  • c. Use words that signal the order of events.
  • d. Include a concluding statement.
• 1.W.4 With guidance, make a writing plan that organizes ideas into a clear message.
• 1.W.5 Revise, edit and rewrite with help from peers and teachers.
• 1.W.6 With support, use digital tools to write and publish, alone or with others.
• 1.W.7 Take part in shared research and writing projects.
• 1.W.8 With support, use background knowledge and information from print and digital sources to write in one's own words.
• 1.W.10 With help, write often to build stamina for different tasks, purposes and readers.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• 1.SL.1 Join group conversations about grade 1 topics with peers and adults in small and large groups.
  • a. Follow agreed rules for discussion.
  • b. Build on others' comments over several exchanges.
  • c. Ask questions to clear up confusion and give feedback to peers.
• 1.SL.2 Ask and answer questions about key ideas presented aloud or in other media.
• 1.SL.3 Ask for clarification and more information about what a speaker says.
• 1.SL.4 Talk about people, places, things and events with fitting details, sharing ideas and feelings clearly.
• 1.SL.5 Make visual representations to make ideas, thoughts and feelings clear.
• 1.SL.6 Speak in complete sentences when the task and situation call for it.