The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts include Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language.
The Reading Standards are broken into three sections: Literature, Informational Text, and Foundational Skills.
A. Key Ideas and Details in Literature
- Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
- Retell stories, including key details and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
- Describe characters, setting, and major events in a story, using key details.
- Retell stories, including key details and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
- Describe characters, setting, and major events in a story, using key details.
B. Craft and Structure in Literature
- Identify words and phrases in stories and poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
- Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
- Identify who is telling the story at various points in the text.
- Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
- Identify who is telling the story at various points in the text.
C. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas in Literature
- Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, settings, or events.
- Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
- Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
D. Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
- With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
Use the following iOS Apps for Literature:
1. Harold and the Purple Crayon
$6.99 in the Apple iTunes Store.
2. Penelope HD
$2.99 in the Apple iTunes Store.
3. Angry Octopus
$7.99 in the Apple iTunes Store.
4. I, Trixie, Who is Dog
$3.99 in the Apple iTunes Store.
5. Poems for Little Children
Free in the Apple iTunes Store.
6. Funny Kids Poem
$1.99 in the Apple iTunes Store.
7. 1st Grade Reading Comprehension Fiction Free
Free in the Apple iTunes Store.
E. Key Ideas and Details in Informational Text
- Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
- Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
- Describe the connections between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
- Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
- Describe the connections between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
F. Craft and Structure in Informational Text
- Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
- Know and use various text features (headings, tables of content, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.
- Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.
- Know and use various text features (headings, tables of content, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.
- Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.
G. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas in Informational Text
- Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
- Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
- Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
- Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
- Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
H. Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
- With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.
Use the following iOS Apps for Informational Text:
1. Water Cycle HD
$1.99 in the Apple iTunes Store.
2. Nutty Newton
Free in the Apple iTunes Store with a $.99 in-app purchase.
3. Crazy Columbus
Free in the Apple iTunes Store with a $.99 in-app purchase.
4. Booklets from the Learning A-Z leveled libraries
Libraries are $6.99 in the Apple iTunes Store or $.99 per booklet. First Grade levels in Reading A-Z are Levels D - J.
I. Print Concepts in Foundational Skills
- Demonstrate understanding of the basic organization and basic features of print.
a. Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).
a. Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).
Use the following iOS Apps for Print Concepts:
1. Rainbow Sentences
$7.99 in the Apple iTunes Store.
J. Phonological Awareness in Foundational Skills
- Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
a. Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
b. Orally produce single syllable words by blending sounds, including consonant blends.
c. Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
d. Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds.
a. Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
b. Orally produce single syllable words by blending sounds, including consonant blends.
c. Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
d. Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds.
Use the following iOS Apps for Phonological Awareness:
1. Reading Raven
$3.99 in the Apple iTunes Store.
2. Word Magic
$.99 in the Apple iTunes Store.
3. Beginning Sound Interactive Game
$.99 in the Apple iTunes Store.
K. Phonics and Word Recognition in Foundational Skills
- Know and apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a. Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
c. Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
d. Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.
e. Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
f. Read words with inflectional endings.
g. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
a. Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
c. Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
d. Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.
e. Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
f. Read words with inflectional endings.
g. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
Use the following iOS Apps for Phonics and Word Recognition:
1. Tense Builder
$19.99 in the iTunes Store.
2. Syllable Awareness- Home items
$2.99 in the Apple iTunes Store.
3. Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe
Free in the Apple iTunes Store.
4. Phonics Vowels
$2.99 in the Apple iTunes Store.
5. Phonics Make a Word- Spelling and Phonics
$1.99 in the Apple iTunes Store.
L. Fluency in Foundational Skills
- Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
b. Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive reading.
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
b. Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive reading.
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
Use the following iOS Apps for Fluency:
Bookster
Free in the Apple iTunes Store.