First Grade Language Arts Standards

The learner will produce various forms of writing appropriate for a given purpose as evidenced in part by:

  • writing on a self-selected topic related to personal experience;
  • writing a response to a picture;
  • dictating a story in response to a self-selected topic;
  • dictating a story in response to a prompt;

Given an assignment or self-selected prompt (picture, event, experience, discussion, literature, media) the learner will demonstrate some conventions of print including:

  • left-to-right directionality;
  • letter formation;
  • spacing;
  • capitalization;
  • ending punctuation;
  • letter-sound correspondence.