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Grade 1 English & Literature.

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Textbook 1Books, Print, Sounds, and First Letters

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

How Books and Print Work

Chapter 2

Listening for Sounds

Chapter 3

First Consonant Letters and Sounds

Chapter 4

Textbook 2Short Vowels and Simple Words

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Short A

Chapter 2

Short I

Chapter 3

Short O and Short U

Chapter 4

Short E and All Five Short Vowels

Textbook 3Consonants, Word Families, and Blending

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Completing the Common Consonant Set

Chapter 2

Building Words from Sounds

Chapter 3

Reading Word Families without Guessing

Chapter 4

From Words to Sentences

Textbook 4One-Syllable Words and Decodable Stories

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Reading Connected Decodable Sentences

Chapter 2

Sequence in a Decodable Story

Chapter 3

Characters’ Actions and Obvious Results

Chapter 4

Reading Fluency Celebration

Textbook 5Complete Sentences, Naming Words, and Action Words

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

A Sentence Tells a Complete Thought

Chapter 2

Naming Words

Chapter 3

Action Words

Chapter 4

Sentences That Sound Right

Textbook 6Understanding Stories and Informational Texts

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Who, What, and Where

Chapter 2

First, Next, and Last

Chapter 3

Topic and Key Facts

Chapter 4

Predictions and Obvious Feelings

Textbook 7Writing Labels, Captions, and Simple Accounts

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Labels and Words

Chapter 2

Captions

Chapter 3

A Few Sentences about an Event

Chapter 4

Preferences and Simple Reasons

Textbook 8Listening, Speaking, Describing, and Retelling

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Taking Turns and Asking Questions

Chapter 2

Following and Giving Directions

Chapter 3

Describing Familiar Things

Chapter 4

Retelling and Recitation

Textbook 9Aesop, Animal Tales, and Lessons

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

The Tortoise and the Hare

Chapter 2

The Lion and the Mouse

Chapter 3

Work, Preparation, and Consequences

Chapter 4

Wanting, Sharing, and Helping

Textbook 10Nursery Tales, Rhymes, Poems, and a Year of Reading

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

The Little Red Hen

Chapter 2

The Three Little Pigs

Chapter 3

Nursery Rhymes and Sound

Chapter 4

Poems around the World and Grade 1 Reading Celebration

Every coin is a 15-minute lesson.

Explained simply, shown with pictures, then put to the test. Stars are chapter reviews. The trophy is the final review.

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The 97 competencies set for Grade 1 English & Literature, and every one has lessons behind it.

Books, Print, Sounds, and First Letters

15 competencies

Hold and orient a book correctly.
Identify the front cover, back cover, title, and page.
Track print from left to right and top to bottom.
Explain that spaces separate written words.
Explain that a sentence is made of words.
Recognize uppercase and lowercase forms of taught letters.
Produce the most common sound associated with each taught consonant.
Identify the first sound in a simple spoken word.
Identify the final sound in a simple spoken word.
Blend two or three spoken sounds into a word.
Segment a simple spoken word into individual sounds.
Blend printed consonant–vowel combinations.
Listen without interrupting for a short period.
Answer a direct question clearly.
Form uppercase and lowercase letters legibly.

Short Vowels and Simple Words

10 competencies

Produce the short sounds of a, e, i, o, and u.
Decode simple consonant–vowel–consonant words.
Decode simple one-syllable words using taught sound–letter relationships.
Read short decodable sentences from left to right.
Use punctuation to recognize where a sentence ends.
Reread a short sentence or passage to improve accuracy.
Answer who, what, where, and when questions using stated information.
Write a familiar word from sound and letter knowledge.
Write a caption that tells something about a picture.
Write a complete simple sentence.

Consonants, Word Families, and Blending

16 competencies

Recognize uppercase and lowercase forms of taught letters.
Produce the most common sound associated with each taught consonant.
Identify the first sound in a simple spoken word.
Identify the final sound in a simple spoken word.
Blend two or three spoken sounds into a word.
Segment a simple spoken word into individual sounds.
Decode simple consonant–vowel–consonant words.
Decode simple one-syllable words using taught sound–letter relationships.
Read short decodable sentences from left to right.
Use punctuation to recognize where a sentence ends.
Reread a short sentence or passage to improve accuracy.
Read a short controlled text aloud with developing smoothness.
Notice and correct a decoding attempt that does not produce a known or sensible word.
Answer who, what, where, and when questions using stated information.
Form uppercase and lowercase letters legibly.
Write a familiar word from sound and letter knowledge.

One-Syllable Words and Decodable Stories

20 competencies

Read short decodable sentences from left to right.
Use punctuation to recognize where a sentence ends.
Reread a short sentence or passage to improve accuracy.
Read a short controlled text aloud with developing smoothness.
Identify a story’s principal character or characters.
Identify important events.
Retell a short literary text in a basic sequence.
Connect a character’s clear action with the result.
Identify the main character or person in a short text.
Identify where a story or event happens when stated or shown clearly.
Identify an important event.
Answer who, what, where, and when questions using stated information.
Retell key details from a short text.
Sequence two or three events.
Identify an obvious problem and result in a short story.
Listen without interrupting for a short period.
Retell one or more events orally.
Speak audibly to a small group in a supported setting.
Write a caption that tells something about a picture.
Write a complete simple sentence.

Complete Sentences, Naming Words, and Action Words

20 competencies

Recognize a complete simple sentence as a complete thought.
Distinguish a complete sentence from an obvious fragment orally.
Begin a written sentence with a capital letter.
End a statement with a full stop.
Recognize question and exclamation marks in reading.
Use a question mark in a supported written question.
Identify words that name familiar people, places, animals, and things.
Identify words that show familiar actions.
Use a naming word and action word to make a simple oral sentence.
Use singular and plural subjects with natural-sounding verb forms by ear in familiar sentences.
Expand a simple sentence with one relevant oral detail.
Reread a sentence to decide whether it sounds complete and natural.
Sort familiar words into categories.
Name members of a familiar category.
Use precise common action words.
Leave visible spaces between written words.
Copy a short sentence accurately.
Write a complete simple sentence.
Use a capital letter and end punctuation.
Reread writing and correct an obvious missing capital, end mark, word, or space.

Understanding Stories and Informational Texts

22 competencies

Identify the story’s setting in simple language.
Identify important events.
Retell a short literary text in a basic sequence.
Connect a character’s clear action with the result.
Identify the main character or person in a short text.
Identify where a story or event happens when stated or shown clearly.
Identify an important event.
Answer who, what, where, and when questions using stated information.
Retell key details from a short text.
Sequence two or three events.
Name the topic of a short informational text.
Match a directly stated detail with a picture or heading.
Make a simple prediction before or during reading.
Confirm or revise a prediction after reading.
Identify an obvious feeling from directly stated words, actions, or pictures.
Use illustrations to support understanding without replacing decoding.
Answer a direct question clearly.
Retell one or more events orally.
Learn and use new concrete words from a story or topic.
Use an illustration as one clue to a word’s meaning.
Use the rest of a simple sentence as a clue to meaning.
Use words for basic feelings.

Writing Labels, Captions, and Simple Accounts

19 competencies

Use a naming word and action word to make a simple oral sentence.
Expand a simple sentence with one relevant oral detail.
Sequence two or three events.
Speak in a complete simple sentence.
Retell one or more events orally.
Learn and use new concrete words from a story or topic.
Use selected new words in a supported written sentence.
Form uppercase and lowercase letters legibly.
Write a familiar word from sound and letter knowledge.
Label a familiar picture, object, or diagram.
Write a caption that tells something about a picture.
Write a complete simple sentence.
Use a capital letter and end punctuation.
Write two or more simple sentences about one familiar event or topic.
Write a simple personal account using a logical event order.
Write a simple preference using “I like ___ because ___.”
Add one useful detail to a sentence.
Reread writing and correct an obvious missing capital, end mark, word, or space.
Share a short piece of writing aloud.

Listening, Speaking, Describing, and Retelling

24 competencies

Expand a simple sentence with one relevant oral detail.
Retell a short literary text in a basic sequence.
Join in with predictable literary language.
Recognize that a poem may sound different from an ordinary story because of rhyme, rhythm, or line arrangement.
Answer who, what, where, and when questions using stated information.
Ask for clarification when a word or event is not understood.
Speak in a complete simple sentence.
Take turns in a short conversation.
Listen without interrupting for a short period.
Ask a relevant question.
Answer a direct question clearly.
Follow one- and two-step spoken directions.
Describe a familiar object using concrete details.
Describe a familiar person, place, animal, or activity.
Retell one or more events orally.
Recite a short rhyme or poem.
Join a repeated or predictable line in shared reading.
Speak audibly to a small group in a supported setting.
Learn and use new concrete words from a story or topic.
Use precise common action words.
Use location and position words.
Use size, color, texture, and quantity words.
Connect a new word with a real object, action, image, or experience.
Use selected new words in an oral sentence.

Aesop, Animal Tales, and Lessons

10 competencies

Identify a story’s principal character or characters.
Identify important events.
Retell a short literary text in a basic sequence.
Recognize an obvious lesson in a fable or animal tale.
Connect a character’s clear action with the result.
Explain a simple response using “because.”
Act out a character’s simple action or feeling without formal drama study.
Sequence two or three events.
Identify an obvious problem and result in a short story.
Retell one or more events orally.

Nursery Tales, Rhymes, Poems, and a Year of Reading

17 competencies

Listen attentively to a short story, fable, nursery tale, or poem.
Identify a story’s principal character or characters.
Identify important events.
Retell a short literary text in a basic sequence.
Recognize an obvious lesson in a fable or animal tale.
Connect a character’s clear action with the result.
Recognize repeated words, sounds, or events.
Join in with predictable literary language.
Respond personally by naming a favorite character, event, or line.
Recognize that a poem may sound different from an ordinary story because of rhyme, rhythm, or line arrangement.
Retell key details from a short text.
Sequence two or three events.
Identify an obvious problem and result in a short story.
Recite a short rhyme or poem.
Join a repeated or predictable line in shared reading.
Speak audibly to a small group in a supported setting.
Share a short piece of writing aloud.

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