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1.0 Students will master the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words by the end of grade one.
- A Phonemic Awareness
- 1 Discriminate sounds and words
- a Tell whether sounds are same or different
- b Recognize that letters represent sounds
- c Identify and repeat initial sounds in words
- d Classify words by initial sounds
- 2 Discriminate and produce rhyming words and alliteration
- a Repeat rhyming words
- b Repeat phrases and sentences with alliteration
- c Discriminate rhyming words from non-rhyming words
- 3 Blend sounds and syllables to form words
- a Orally blend syllables into a whole word, such as fun-ny = funny
- 4 Segment sounds in spoken words and sentences
- a Clap words in a sentence
- b Identify the initial sound in a word
- 1 Discriminate sounds and words
- B Phonics
- 1 Recognize that letters have corresponding sounds
- a Recognize similarities and differences in letter shapes
- b Match familiar consonant sounds to appropriate letters, such as m, b, f, t, p
- 2 Decode words in grade-level texts
- a Identify and name some upper and lower case letters in words, especially those in the student’s own name
- 1 Recognize that letters have corresponding sounds
- C Fluency
- 1 Engage in imitative reading at an appropriate rate
- a Listen to models of fluent reading
- b Recite nursery rhymes, poems, and finger plays with expression
- c Develop beginning sight vocabulary of familiar words, such as first name, color words
- 1 Engage in imitative reading at an appropriate rate
- D Vocabulary
- 1 Develop and apply vocabulary through exposure to a variety of texts
- a Acquire new vocabulary through listening to a variety of texts on a daily basis
- b Discuss words and word meanings daily as they are encountered in texts, instruction, and conversation
- c Ask questions about unknown objects and words related to topics discussed
- d Listen to and identify the meaning of content-specific vocabulary
- e Identify some signs, labels, and environmental print
- f Collect and play with favorite words
- 2 Develop a conceptual understanding of new words
- a Use words to describe size, color, and shape
- b Name common objects shown in pictures
- 3 Understand, acquire, and use new vocabulary
- a Use illustrations to find meaning of unknown words
- b Use newly learned vocabulary on multiple occasions to reinforce meaning
- 1 Develop and apply vocabulary through exposure to a variety of texts
- E General Reading Comprehension
- 1 Demonstrate an understanding of concepts of print to determine how print is organized and read
- a Understand that speech can be written and read
- b Understand that print conveys meaning
- c Demonstrate the proper use of a book
- d Identify the title of a book
- e Demonstrate that text is read from left to right and top to bottom
- f Identify pictures, shapes, letters, and numerals
- 2 Use strategies to prepare for reading (before reading)
- a Make connections to the text using illustrations/ photographs from prior knowledge
- b Make predictions by examining the title, cover, illustrations/photographs, and familiar author or topic
- c Help set a purpose for reading
- 3 Use strategies to make meaning from text (during reading)
- a Use illustrations to construct meaning
- b Make and confirm predictions
- c Connect events, characters, and actions in stories to specific life experiences
- 4 Demonstrate understanding of text (after reading)
- a Recall information from text
- b Respond orally to questions
- c Respond to text in a variety of ways
- Retell
- Dramatize
- Draw
- d Review the purpose for reading
- e Retell a story as though reading a book
- 1 Demonstrate an understanding of concepts of print to determine how print is organized and read