What do we learn in First Grade?

What do we learn in Reading?

·       Letter/Sound Recognition

·       Basic Sight words

·       Decoding strategies

·       Balanced Literacy Approach (Meaning, visual, structure)

·       “What do you do when you’re Stuck?” strategies

·       Main idea

·       Retellings

·       Character analysis

·       Fluency

What do we learn in Writing?

·       Spacing

·       Letter formation

·       Capitalization

·       Punctuation

·       Sentence structure

·       Narrative, retellings, “how to”, descriptive, compare/contrast

·       Story mapping

What do we learn in Math?

·       Counting/Writing numbers to 100

·       Patterns

·       Shapes

·       Money (penny and dime)

·       Graphing

·       Calendar

·       Sorting

·       Ordinal names

·       Addition and Subtraction

·       Time (whole and half hour)

·       Concept of right and left

·       Measurement

·       Problem solving

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