North Dakota Academic Content Standards 1st Grade ELA Activities

ND.1.RL. Reading Standards for Literature/Fiction

Key Ideas and Details

1.RL.2. Retell stories, including key/supporting details, and demonstrate understanding of their central or main idea.

1.RL.3. Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key/supporting details.

Craft and Structure

1.RL.7. Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

ND.1.RI. Reading Standards for Informational/Nonfiction Text

Key Ideas and Details

1.RI.2. Identify the main topic and retell key/supporting details of a text.

Craft and Structure

1.RI.5. Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.

1.RI.6. Distinguish between information provided by photographs or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

1.RI.7. Use the photographs or illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.

ND.1.RF Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

Phonological Awareness

1.RF.2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

1.RF.2.a. Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.

1.RF.2.b. Orally produce single-syllable words, by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.

1.RF.2.c. Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.

Phonics and Word Recognition

1.RF.3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

1.RF.3.a. Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.

1.RF.3.c. Demonstrate use of beginning and ending blends.

1.RF.3.d. Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

1.RF.3.e. Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.

1.RF.3.f. Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.

1.RF.3.g. Read words with inflectional endings.

1.RF.3.h. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Fluency

1.RF.4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension

1.RF.4.c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

ND.1.L. Language Standards

Conventions of Standard English

1.L.1. Within the context of authentic English writing and speaking…

Introduce:

1.L.1.b. Correctly use common homophones (e.g., to, too, two; there, their).

1.L.1.f. Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.

1.L.1.g. Form and use the simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked, I walk; I will walk).

1.L.1.h. Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns.

1.L.1.i. Use adjectives depending on what is to be modified.

Practice:

1.L.1.m. Common and proper nouns.

1.L.1.n. Use regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/.

1.L.1.o. Use frequently occurring adjectives.

Display proficiency in:

1.L.1.s. Use prepositions.

1.L.2. Within the context of authentic English writing and speaking…

Introduce:

1.L.2.e. Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.

1.L.2.f. Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).

1.L.2.h. Form and use possessives.

1.L.2.i. Add prefixes and suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).

Practice:

1.L.2.l. Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.

1.L.2.m. Spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions.

1.L.2.n. Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words.

1.L.2.o. Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed and/or using spelling patterns and generalizations. (e.g., word families, position-based spelling, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts)

Display proficiency in:

1.L.2.p. Recognize and name end punctuation.

Knowledge of Language

1.L.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.

1.L.4.a. Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

1.L.4.c. Identify frequently occurring root words (e.g., look) and their inflectional forms (e.g., looked, looking).

1.L.5. With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

1.L.5.a. Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

1.L.5.b. Define words by category and by one or more key attributes (e.g., a duck is a bird that swims; a tiger is a large cat with stripes).

1.L.5.c. Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy).

1.L.5.d. Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings.