First Grade Checklist.pdf

Grade 1 

Skills 

Reading 

Quarter 1 

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Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition and Fluency 

I can decode by using letter-sound matches. 

PA 2 I can identify and say the beginning and ending 

sounds in words. 

PA 4 I can decode by using letter/sound match. 

I can read text using fluid and automatic decoding skills. 

PA 6 I can blend two to four sounds into words. 

I can read aloud with appropriate phrasing and expression 

and show I understand the meaning of punctuation. 

I can change sounds in a word to read and make new or 

rhyming words. 

PA 5 I can use word families to sound out unfamiliar words. 

PA 7 I can change sounds in a word to read and make 

new or rhyming words. 

Not Reported 

PA 1 I can identify and tell the difference between letters, 

words, and sentences. 

PA 8 I can consistently read and add to my list of common 

sight words. 

Acquisition of Vocabulary 

I can use context clues to define unknown words while 

reading. 

I can increase my sight word vocabulary. 

AV 4 I can increase my sight word vocabulary. 

I can identify and recognize synonyms, antonyms and 

contractions. 

Not Reported


Skills 

Reading 

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AV 3 I can classify words into categories 

AV 8 I can read words by putting together a base word with 

endings (s, ed, ing) 

Reading Applications: Informational Text 

I can use the title page, photographs, captions and 

illustrations to develop comprehension. 

I can identify the sequence of events in informational text. 

Not Reported 

IT 6 I can follow directions with more than one step. 

Reading Process 

I can make predictions while reading and support my 

predictions. 

RP 4 I can make predictions while I am reading and give 

reasons for my predictions. 

I can recall the important ideas in texts. 

I can answer literal, simple inferential and evaluative 

questions to demonstrate comprehension of gradeappropriate 

texts. 

I can compare new information to what I already know. 

RP 5 I can compare new information to what I already know. 

Not Reported 

RP 1 I can tell what an author and illustrator are. 

RP 3 I can visualize what I read and show this by drawing, 

writing, or talking about what I have read. 

RP 10 I can use criteria to choose independent reading 

materials.


Skills 

Reading 

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Reading Applications: Literary Text 

I can identify characters, setting and events in a story. 

LT 2 I can tell characters, setting, and events of a story. 

I can retell the beginning, middle and ending of a story, 

including its important events. 

LT 1 I can tell about the information in a story using my own 

words. 

LT 3 I can retell the important events in the beginning, middle, 

and end of a story. 

Not Reported 

LT 5 I can recognize predictable patterns in stories and 

poems.


Skills 

Writing 

Quarter 1 

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Writing Process 

I can organize writing to include a beginning, middle and end. 

I can write complete sentences with subjects and verbs. 

WP 6 I can write complete sentences with nouns (subjects) 

and verbs. 

Not Reported 

WP 1 I can generate writing ideas through discussion with 

others. 

WP 9 I can reread my own writing to make sure it makes 

sense. 

WP 11 I can use resources (e.g. word walls, beginning 

dictionary, word bank) to select effective vocabulary. 

WP 12 I can check my spelling, capitals and end marks by 

proofreading my writing. 

Writing Applications 

I can write stories with a beginning, middle and end that 

include descriptive words and details. 

I can write responses to stories. 

I can write friendly letters or invitations that follow a simple 

letter format. 

Not Reported 

WA 4 I can write in various ways (messages, journals, 

poems, notes). 

Writing Conventions 

I can print legibly and space my letters, words and sentences 

appropriately. 

WC 1 I can print neatly and space my letters, words, and 

sentences.


Skills 

Writing 

Quarter 1 

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I can spell high-frequency words correctly. 

WC 3 I can spell grade level high frequency words 

correctly. 

I can use strategies to spell unfamiliar words. 

WC 2 I can use short and long vowel patterns to spell words 

correctly. 

WC 4 I can create phonetically spelled words that can be 

easily read by the writer and others. 

WC 5 I can spell new words by using segments, 

sounding out, and matching familiar words and word 

parts. 

I can use periods, question marks and exclamation points 

correctly. 

WC 6 I can use question marks, exclamation points and 

periods correctly. 

I can use correct capitalization. 

WC 7 I can capitalize the first word of a sentence, names, 

proper nouns and the word I. 

I can use correct nouns, verbs and adjectives. 

WC 8 I can use nouns, verbs, and adjectives. 

Not Reported


Skills 

Math 

Quarter 1 

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Number, Number Sense & Operations 

I can use ordinal numbers to order objects. 

I can express numbers using physical models,words and 

number expressions. 

NS 15 I can model and represent equal forms of the same 

number using visual representations. 

I can read, write and count numbers to 100 by 2’s, 5’s and 

10’s. 

NS 3 I can read and write numbers 1- 100. 

I can use place value (ones and tens) up to 100. 

I can recognize coins and find the value of a collection of 

coins up to a dollar. 

I can represent one quarter, one third and one half. 

I can model, represent and explain addition. 

NS 10a I can model and explain addition using physical 

materials in contextual situations. 

NS 10b I can draw pictures to model addition. 

NS 10d I can explain that adding two whole numbers yields a 

larger whole number. 

NS 16 I can develop strategies for basic addition facts. 

I can model, represent and explain subtraction. 

NS 11a I can model and explain subtraction using physical 

materials in contextual situations. 

NS 11b I can draw pictures to model subtraction.


Skills 

Math 

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NS 17 I can develop strategies for basic subtraction facts. 

Not Reported 

NS 12 I can use conventional symbols to represent the 

operations of addition and subtraction (+, -). 

Measurement 

I can order a sequence of events by time. 

M 3 I can order a sequence of events by time (summer, 

fall, winter, and spring, afternoon and night). 

I can tell time to the nearest hour and half hour. 

I can estimate and measure length and weight using nonstandard 

and standard units. 

Not Reported 

Patterns, Functions, & Algebra 

I can sort, clasify and order objects by two or more attributes 

and explain how they were sorted. 

PF 1 I can sort, classify, and order objects by two or 

more attributes and explain how they were sorted. 

I can recognize, describe and extend sequences of sounds, 

shapes or simple number patterns. 

PFA 2 I can add on to sounds, shapes, and number 

patterns and create and write similar patterns. 

PFA 3 I can describe orally the basic unit or general plan of a 

repeating or growing pattern. 

I can solve problem situations using words, objects or 

number phrases.


Skills 

Math 

Quarter 1 

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Not Reported 

Geometrty and Spatial Sense

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