Indiana Academic Standards 1st Grade ELA Activities

READING

READING: Foundations

Print Concepts

1.RF.2.4 Learn and apply knowledge of alphabetical order.

Phonological Awareness

1.RF.3.2 Blend sounds, including consonant blends, to produce single- and multi-syllable words.

1.RF.3.4 Distinguish beginning, middle (medial), and final sounds in single-syllable words.

Phonics

1.RF.4.1 Use letter-sound knowledge of single consonants (hard and soft sounds), short and long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs, vowel teams (e.g., ai) and digraphs, and r-controlled vowels to decode phonetically regular words (e.g., cat, go, black, boat, her), independent of context.

1.RF.4.3 Apply knowledge of final –e and common vowel teams (vowel digraphs) for representing long vowel sounds.

1.RF.4.4 Recognize and read common and irregularly spelled high-frequency words by sight (e.g., have, said).

1.RF.4.5 Read words in common word families (e.g., -at, -ate).

1.RF.4.6 Read grade-appropriate root words and affixes including plurals, verb tense, comparatives (e.g., look, -ed, -ing, -s, -er, -est), and simple compound words (e.g., cupcake) and contractions (e.g., isn’t).

READING: Literature

Key Ideas and Textual Support

1.RL.2.1 Ask and answer questions about main idea and key details in a text.

1.RL.2.2 Retell stories, fables, and fairy tales in sequence, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

1.RL.2.3 Using key details, identify and describe the elements of plot, character, and setting.

1.RL.2.4 Make and confirm predictions about what will happen next in a story.

Structural Elements and Organization

1.RL.3.1 Identify the basic characteristics of familiar narrative text genres (e.g., fairy tales, nursery rhymes, storybooks).

Synthesis and Connection of Ideas

1.RL.4.1 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

READING: Nonfiction

Key Ideas and Textual Support

1.RN.2.2 Retell main ideas and key details of a text.

Structural Elements and Organization

1.RN.3.1 Know and use various text features (e.g., table of contents, glossary, illustrations) to locate and describe key facts or information in a text.

1.RN.3.2 Identify how a nonfiction text can be structured to indicate order (e.g., sequential) or to explain a simple cause and effect relationship.

READING: Vocabulary

Vocabulary Building

1.RV.2.1 Demonstrate understanding that context clues (e.g., words and sentence clues) and text features (e.g., glossaries, illustrations) may be used to help understand unknown words.

1.RV.2.2 Define and sort words into categories (e.g., antonyms, living things, synonyms).

1.RV.2.4 Recognize and use frequently occurring affixes, and roots and their inflections, as clues to the meaning of an unknown word.

WRITING

WRITING

The Research Process: Finding, Assessing, Synthesizing, and Reporting Information

1.W.5 With support, conduct simple research on a topic.

Organize information, using graphic organizers or other aids.

Conventions of Standard English: Grammar and Usage/ Capitalization, Punctuation, and Spelling

1.W.6.1 Demonstrate command of English grammar and usage, focusing on:

1.W.6.1a Nouns/Pronouns – Writing sentences that include common and proper nouns and personal pronouns.

1.W.6.1b Verbs – Writing sentences using verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future.

1.W.6.2 Demonstrate command of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, focusing on:

1.W.6.2a Capitalization – Capitalizing the first word of a sentence, dates, names of people, and the pronoun I.

1.W.6.2b Punctuation – Correctly using a period, question mark, and exclamation mark at the end of a sentence; Using commas in dates and to separate items in a series.

1.W.6.2c Spelling – Spelling unknown words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions; Correctly spelling words with common spelling patterns; Correctly spelling common irregularly-spelled, grade-appropriate high-frequency words.