First Grade Reading Expectations

1.  The student understands and uses different skills and strategies to read.

1.1 Uses word recognition skills and strategies to read and comprehend text.

1.1.1 Apply phonetic principles to read including sounding out, using initial letters, and using common letter patterns to make sense of whole words.

Understand and apply concepts of print.

• Use directionality when reading independently.
• Identify title page, table of contents, author, and illustrator of book.
• Recognize that print represents spoken language that conveys meaning.
• Recognize the difference between sentences, words, spaces between words, and letters.

Understand and apply phonemic awareness (is phonemically aware).

• Identify syllables in a word auditorially.
• Identify and generate rhyme.
• Segment and blend multi-syllabic words including compound words.
• Substitute one phoneme for another in initial, medial, and final positions to make a new word.
• Segment and blend words containing three to five phonemes.
• Generate words that begin or end with the same sound or different sounds.
• Blend and segment onset and rime.

Apply understanding of oral language to develop reading skills.

• Participate orally in discussions about stories listened to and read (e.g., contribute who, what, when, where in retells; contribute explanations; generate and answer questions; and make comparisons).

Apply understanding of phonics.

• Recognize that sounds are represented by different single letters or combinations of letters.
• Apply onset and rime/word families to decode words.
• Decode words having the following patterns: vc, cvc, cvcc, ccvc, cvce, ccvcc, cvvc.
• Use knowledge of phonics to read unfamiliar words in text.

• Read compound words, contractions and words with common inflectional endings.

1.2 Use vocabulary (word meaning) strategies to comprehend text.

1.2.1 Use word and sentence structure to understand reading materials including prefixes, suffixes, contractions, and simple abbreviations.

Apply knowledge of word and sentence structure to comprehend text.

• Use inflectional endings to understand the meaning of words. (e.g., -s, -ed, -ing, -er, -est).

1.2.2 Use a variety of reading strategies to comprehend words and ideas, including self-correcting, re-reading, reading on, and slowing down.

Apply word meaning strategies in grade level text.

• Use strategies including using context and re-reading to self-correct.

1.2.3 Use dictionaries, glossaries, and other sources to understand and confirm word meanings.

Understand how resources are used to learn word meanings.

• Locate resources with teacher guidance.

1.3 Build vocabulary through wide reading.

1.3.1 Use pictures, graphics, word meaning, and context clues to comprehend text.

Apply strategies to predict or confirm word meaning in grade level text.

• Use meaning, language structure, and phonics to predict and confirm the meaning of words independently.
• Use information from pictures, illustrations, and diagrams to predict and confirm word meaning (with teacher guidance).
• Use context in reading to predict meaning of new words (with teacher guidance).
• Ask self questions to confirm meaning:  Does that make sense?  Does that sound right?  Does that look right?

1.3.2 Build reading vocabulary across content areas.

Understand and apply new vocabulary.

• Increase oral and reading vocabulary by listening to and reading informational and literary text.
• Use new vocabulary gained through reading and listening when writing and speaking.

1.4 Apply word recognition skills and strategies to read fluently.

1.4.1 Read grade level text fluently.

(a) Understand how to read fluently.

• Read aloud familiar grade level text with accuracy in a manner that sounds like natural speech, using cues of punctuation to assist understanding.
• Read aloud unpracticed grade level text at a target rate of 50-65 words correct per minute.

(b) Know high frequency words.

• Read selected high frequency words with automaticity.

1.4.2 Adjust reading rate to incorporate new skills or read unfamiliar text with understanding.

Understand how to apply different reading rates to text.

• Adjust rate to match purposes, practice new skills or to read unfamiliar grade level materials and can explain why.