1st Grade Curriculum Overview

We use a comprehensive English program, which includes a wide range of literacy activities and carefully selected materials. 

 

Reading

 

 

Text: Treasures. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 2011

 

Skills taught: Initial and final consonants; Blends; Long and short vowels; Word families;  Rhymes; Sight words; Decoding and word study; Compound words; Context clues; Picture clues
 

Teaching methods and resources used: Promethean Interactive Board, iPads/Chromebooks, Leveled Readers (C-M); shared reading and shared writing; read alouds; word wall activities; literacy centers; choral reading; phonics series; oral language chants and songs; familiar reading

 

 

Grammar

 

Text: Treasures. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 2011

 

Primary Units: Action verbs; adding ed; asking sentences; days of the week; describing words; holidays; months of the year; naming parts of a sentence; nouns; punctuation; word order in sentences; contractions; using is and are; using was and were; using has and have; using I and me; synonyms and antonyms; color words; prepositions and phrases; pronouns; adverbs.
Sentences: Statements; questions; exclamations.
Nouns: plural nouns; proper nouns 

 

Spelling

 

Text: Treasures. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 2011 and Phonetic Connections Benchmark Education Company  2011.  

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We teach phonological awareness through: listening; rhyme; sentences & words; syllable awareness; phonemes; onset & rime and phoneme analysis  and synthesis.

 

Primary Units: short vowels; long vowels; digraphs; blends; compounds; contractions

Teaching methods and resources used: paper/pencil; dictionary; white board; ABC letters/ magnet board; manipulatives; Spelling Bee; write whole word; word shape worksheets; dry erase board with markers in literacy centers; cheering/chanting words with movement; clapping words/syllables; crossword puzzles; word searches