What will my child study in first grade?

We are a Common Core School which means we adhere to the Arizona Common
Core State Standards. Please check the Arizona Common Core Standards at
www.azed.gov
Reading
Key Ideas & Details
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their
central message or lesson.
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or
events.
Print Concepts
Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
Phonological Awareness
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including
consonant blends.
Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in
spoken single-syllable words.
Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of
individual sounds (phonemes).
Phonics and Word Recognition
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs (two
letters that represent one sound).
Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel
sounds.
Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the
number of syllables in a printed word.
Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into
syllables.
Read words with inflectional endings.
Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
Fluency
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding,
rereading as necessary.
Writing
Text Types and Purposes
Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced
events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to
signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or
gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Comprehension and Collaboration
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information
presented orally or through other media.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation.
Conventions of Standard English
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and
usage when writing or speaking.
Print all upper- and lowercase letters.
Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.
Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (e.g., He
hops; We hop).
Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns (e.g., I, me, my; they, them,
their, anyone, everything).
Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for
frequently occurring irregular words.
Spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and
spelling conventions.
Math
Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems
Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum
is less than or equal to 20
Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between
addition and subtraction.
Add and subtract within 20.
Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).
Work with addition and subtraction equations.
Number & Operations in Base Ten
Extend the counting sequence.
Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120
Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of
tens and ones. Understand the following as special cases:
o 10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones called a ten.
o The numbers from 11 to 19 are composed of a ten and one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.
o The numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 refer to one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones).
Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits,
recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <.
Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and
subtract.
Measurement and Data
Order objects by length
Tell and write time in hours and half hours
Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories
Geometry
Compose rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, and circles
Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares

Social Studies
American History, World History, Civics/Government, Geography, Economics
Science
The Inquiry Process, History and Nature of Science, Science in Society, Life
Science, Earth and Space Science, Physical Science