FIRST GRADE
LEARNING PROFILE
The emphasis at Rowe School is on laying the foundation for Yarmouth Core Values and Life Role Outcomes. As a member of the Rowe School community, your child is working towards being safe, kind, helpful, and polite and developing positive work habits.
Responsible Community Member
- Shows respect for others (sensitive and tolerant of others, respecting rights & property of others, good manners, works and plays well with others)
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Shows respect for school environment (materials, workspace, belongings)
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Follows rules and routines of the school (classroom, playground, and hallways)
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Exhibits self control
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Takes responsibility for own actions
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Contributes positively in a group
Self-Directed Learner
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Listens attentively to others
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Follows directions
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Works independently
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Uses time constructively
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Seeks help when necessary
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Completes work
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Shows best effort
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Expresses ideas clearly when speaking
READING
Foundational Skills
Print Concepts
- Understands features of a sentence (first word, capitals, end punctuation)
Phonological Awareness
- Demonstrates understanding of spoken words, syllables, & sounds (phonemes)
Phonics and Word Recognition
- Applies long and short vowel sounds when decoding words
- Decodes regularly spelled one and two syllable words
- Knows common consonant digraphs
- Reads grade-appropriate high-frequency words by sight
Fluency
- Reads with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
- Reads and comprehends at mid-year grade level
- Reads and comprehends at end-of-year grade level
Literature
- Uses pictures and story details to describe setting and events
- Retells stories, including key details, and understands central message
- Uses key details to describe characters, settings, and major events in a story
- Uses key ideas and details to ask/answer questions
- Identify words and phrases that suggest feelings or appeals to the senses
- Explains differences between types of texts (e.g., fiction, nonfiction, poetry)
- Compares/contrasts adventures of characters in stories
Informational Text
- Asks/answers questions about key details
- Identifies the main topic and retells key details
- Ask and answer questions to understand unknown words
- Knows and uses text features (e.g., table of contents, headings, pictures)
- Compares/contrasts two texts on the same topic
WRITING
Narrative Writing
- Writes across three or more pages
- Puts the events in order using words such as and, then, so
- Writes an ending that provides some sense of closure
- Includes details in pictures and words
Opinion/Persuasive Writing
- Writes an opinion and states supporting reasons
- Writes an ending that provides some sense of closure
Information Writing
- Names a topic and supplies facts
- Writes an ending that provides some sense of closure
- With support, gathers information and uses labels/words to answer questions
Language Conventions
- Spells words relying on most obvious sounds and common spelling patterns
- Spells grade level high-frequency words
- Uses end punctuation for sentences
- Uses commas in dates and lists
- Capitalizes sentences, dates, names, and the pronoun “I”
- Writes legibly and efficiently
Revising and Editing
- With support, adds details to strengthen writing as needed
MATHEMATICS
The following goals are at the core of our Grade 1 curriculum. Please note that these are important goals, but they are not the only concepts to which students will be exposed at this grade level. Students will have a rich curriculum, and their experiences in math will introduce them to many new concepts that will deepen over time.
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction
- Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction
- Add and subtract within 20
- Work with addition and subtraction equations
Number and Operations in Base Ten
- Extend the counting sequence
- Understand place value
- Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract
Measurement and Data
- Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units
- Tell and write time
- Represent and interpret data
Geometry
- Reason with shapes and their attributes