First Grade Objectives
- Correct penmanship habits and proper use of tools
- To form manuscript letters correctly
- The names of letters
- Capital and lower case correspondents
- Alphabetical order
- The common sounds of the alphabet phonograms
- A few common spelling rules
- Additional multi-letter phonograms beyond the alphabet letters
- Over 450 high frequency, easy words
- Match capital and lower case correspondents
- Alphabetize spelling words to any letter
- Write phonograms from isolated dictation
- Give sounds for phonograms in isolation
- Recognize phonograms in printed text
- Use phonograms to sound out new words in print, reading
- Use phonograms to write new words, spelling
- Count syllables in a word
- Count sounds in a word or syllable
- Count words in a sentence
- Blend sounds into words he/she recognizes
- Analyze words by syllables and sounds in order to write them, spelling
- Learn how to sound out words in print, reading
- Write words from dictation
- To spell grade appropriate words correctly
- Common inflectional forms, -s and –es with nouns, -ed and –ing with verbs, -er and –est with adjectives
- The forms of common irregular verbs, e.g., go, going, went, gone
- What is a subject and what is a predicate
- How to begin and end a written sentence
- How to add descriptive words to a sentence
- To identify and create rhyming and alliteration patterns
- Identify common homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms
- Use words with multiple meanings
- Identify the beginning and end of a sentence in print
- Write complete sentences
- Classify sentences as declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory
- Use descriptive words and phrases to answer the adjective questions—Which one? What kind? How many?
- Use descriptive words and phrases to answer the adverb questions—How? When? Where? Why?
