First Grade Reading Standards

Given the opportunity to read or listen to an appropriate text (including shared reading and read-aloud), the learner will

  • integrate prior knowledge/personal experiences with events in the text
  • predict events
  • identify/discuss characters and setting
  • express thoughts, feeling, judgment, understanding, and attitudes in response to text
  • analyze the behavior of characters
  • attend to a self-selected text for a sustained period of time

The learner will orally read familiar text at the learner's level of instruction, as evidence in part, by the capacity to

  • read with fluency and expression
  • integrate the three cueing systems to maintain meaning (semantic, syntactic, grapho-phonetic)
  • self-correct when miscues interfere with meaning

Presented with a text to read silently at the learner's level of instruction, the learner will demonstrate comprehension of the material in part, by the capacity to

  • retell the story with prompts
  • draw in response to the story
  • tell the most interesting and important parts of the story to the teacher
  • write in response to the story

The learner will understand the concept of phonetic awareness to the appropriate level of instruction.