Grade 1 Writing Curriculum

Students will be able to: 

• Develop oral communication skills: 
  • Listen actively and speak using agreed-upon rules for discussion. 
  • Initiate conversation with peers and adults. 
  • Participate in collaborative and partner discussions about various texts and topics.
  • Ask and respond to questions to seek help, get information, or clarify information.
  • Express ideas orally in complete sentences. 
  • Work respectfully with others. 
• Print legibly in manuscript:
  • Form letters accurately. 
  • Space words within sentences. 
• Write in a variety of forms to include narrative, descriptive, and opinion:
  • Identify audience and purpose. 
  • Use prewriting activities to generate ideas. 
  • Focus on one topic. 
  • Use letters to phonetically spell words. 
  • hare writing with others. 
• Edit writing for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling:
  • Begin each sentence with a capital letter and use ending punctuation.

Students will be able to: 

• Develop oral communication skills:
  • Listen actively and speak using agreed-upon rules for discussion. 
  • Initiate conversation with peers and adults.
  • Adapt or change oral language to fit the situation.
  • Participate in collaborative and partner discussions about various texts and topics.
  • Follow rules for conversation using appropriate voice level in small-group settings.
  • Ask and respond to questions to seek help, get information, or clarify information.
  • Express ideas orally in complete sentences.
  • Work respectfully with others. 
• Print legibly in manuscript:
  • Form letters accurately. 
  • Space words within sentences. 
• Write in a variety of forms to include narrative, descriptive, and opinion:
  • Identify audience and purpose. 
  • Use prewriting activities to generate ideas.
  • Focus on one topic.
  • Use letters to phonetically spell words.
  • Share writing with others. 
• Edit writing for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling:
  • Use complete sentences

Students will be able to: 

• Develop oral communication skills:
  • Listen actively and speak using agreed-upon rules for discussion.
  • Initiate conversation with peers and adults.
  • Adapt or change oral language to fit the situation. 
  • Use appropriate voice level, phrasing, and intonation. 
  • Participate in collaborative and partner discussions about various texts and topics.
  • Follow rules for conversation using appropriate voice level in small-group settings. 
  • Ask and respond to questions to seek help, get information, or clarify information. 
  • Restate and follow simple two-step oral directions.
  • Give simple two-step oral directions.
  • Express ideas orally in complete sentences.
  • Work respectfully with others. 
  • Increase listening and speaking vocabularies. 
• Print legibly in manuscript:
  • Form letters accurately.
  • Space words within sentences. 
• Write in a variety of forms to include narrative, descriptive, and opinion:
  • Identify audience and purpose. 
  • Use prewriting activities to generate ideas. 
  • Focus on one topic. 
  • Organize writing to suit purpose. 
  • Revise by adding descriptive words when writing about people, place, things, and events. 
  • Use letters to phonetically spell words.
  • Share writing with others. 
• Edit writing for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling:
  • Begin each sentence with a capital letter and use ending punctuation. 
  • Use correct spelling for commonly used sight words and phonetically regular words.

Students will be able to: 

• Develop oral communication skills:
  • Listen actively and speak using agreed-upon rules for discussion. 
  • Initiate conversation with peers and adults. 
  • Adapt or change oral language to fit the situation. 
  • Use appropriate voice level, phrasing, and intonation.
  • Participate in collaborative and partner discussions about various texts and topics.
  • Follow rules for conversation using appropriate voice level in small-group settings. 
  • Ask and respond to questions to seek help, get information, or clarify information.
  • Restate and follow simple two-step oral directions. 
  • Give simple two-step oral directions. 
  • Express ideas orally in complete sentences. 
  • Work respectfully with others. 
  • Increase listening and speaking vocabularies.

Students will be able to: 

• Develop oral communication skills:
  • Listen actively and speak using agreed-upon rules for discussion. 
  • Initiate conversation with peers and adults. 
  • Adapt or change oral language to fit the situation.
  • Use appropriate voice level, phrasing, and intonation. 
  • Participate in collaborative and partner discussions about various texts and topics.
  • Follow rules for conversation using appropriate voice level in small-group settings.
  • Express ideas orally in complete sentences. 
  • Work respectfully with others. 
• Print legibly in manuscript:
  • Form letters accurately. 
  • Space words within sentences. 
• Write in a variety of forms to include narrative, descriptive, and opinion:
  • Identify audience and purpose. 
  • Use prewriting activities to generate ideas. 
  • Focus on one topic. 
  • Organize writing to suit purpose.
  • Revise by adding descriptive words when writing about people, place, things, and events. 
  • Use letters to phonetically spell words. 
  • Share writing with others. 
• Edit writing for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling:
  • Begin each sentence with a capital letter and use ending punctuation.
  • Use correct spelling for commonly used sight words and phonetically regular words.

Students will be able to: 

• Develop oral communication skills:
  • Listen actively and speak using agreed-upon rules for discussion. 
  • Initiate conversation with peers and adults. 
  • Adapt or change oral language to fit the situation. 
  • Use appropriate voice level, phrasing, and intonation.
  • Participate in collaborative and partner discussions about various texts and topics.
  • Follow rules for conversation using appropriate voice level in small-group settings.
  • Ask and respond to questions to seek help, get information, or clarify information.
  • Restate and follow simple two-step oral directions. 
  • Give simple two-step oral directions. 
  • Express ideas orally in complete sentences.
  • Work respectfully with others. 
  • Increase listening and speaking vocabularies.
• Print legibly in manuscript:
  • Form letters accurately.
  • Space words within sentences.
• Write a variety of forms to  include narrative, descriptive, and opinion:
  • Identify audience and purpose.
  • Use pre writing activities to generate ideas.
  • Focus on one topic.
  • Organize writing to suit purpose.
  • Revise by adding descriptive words when writing about people, places, things, and events.
  • Write to express an opinion and give a reason.
  • Use letters to phonetically spell words.
  • Share writing with others.
• Edit writing for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling:
  • Use complete sentences.
  • Begin each sentence with a capital letter and use ending punctuation.
  • Use correct spelling for commonly used sight words and phonetically regular words.
• Conduct research to answer questions or solve problems using available resources:
  • Generate topics of interest.
  • Generate questions to gather information.
  • Identify pictures, texts, or people as sources of information.
  • Find information from provided sources.
  • Record information.

Students will be able to: 

• Develop oral communication skills:
  • Listen actively and speak using agreed-upon rules for discussion. 
  • Initiate conversation with peers and adults.
  • Adapt or change oral language to fit the situation. 
  • Use appropriate voice level, phrasing, and intonation.
  • Participate in collaborative and partner discussions about various texts and topics.
  • Follow rules for conversation using appropriate voice level in small-group settings.
  • Ask and respond to questions to seek help, get information, or clarify information.
  • Express ideas orally in complete sentences. 
  • Work respectfully with others. 
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of fictional texts:
  • Preview the selection. 
  • Set a purpose for reading.
  • Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about what is read.
  • Identify characters, setting, and important events. 
  • Identify theme. 
• Print legibly in manuscript:
  • Form letters accurately.
  • Space words within sentences. 
• Write in a variety of forms to include narrative, descriptive, and opinion:
  • Identify audience and purpose.
  • Use prewriting activities to generate ideas.
  • Focus on one topic. 
  • Organize writing to suit purpose. 
  • Revise by adding descriptive words when writing about people, place, things, and events. 
  • Use letters to phonetically spell words.
  • Share writing with others. 
• Edit writing for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling:
  • Begin each sentence with a capital letter and use ending punctuation.
  • Use correct spelling for commonly used sight words and phonetically regular words.

Students will be able to: 

• Develop oral communication skills:
  • Listen actively and speak using agreed-upon rules for discussion.
  • Initiate conversation with peers and adults. 
  • Adapt or change oral language to fit the situation. 
  • Use appropriate voice level, phrasing, and intonation.
  • Participate in collaborative and partner discussions about various texts and topics.
  • Follow rules for conversation using appropriate voice level in small-group settings. 
  • Ask and respond to questions to seek help, get information, or clarify information. 
  • Give simple two-step oral directions.
  • Express ideas orally in complete sentences.
  • Work respectfully with others.
• Print legibly in manuscript:
  • Form letters accurately. 
  • Space words within sentences. 
• Write in a variety of forms to include narrative, descriptive, and opinion:
  • Identify audience and purpose. 
  • Use prewriting activities to generate ideas. 
  • Focus on one topic.
  • Organize writing to suit purpose. 
  • Revise by adding descriptive words when writing about people, place, things, and events. 
  •  Write to express an opinion and give a reason. 
  • Use letters to phonetically spell words.
  • Share writing with others. 
• Edit writing for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling:
  • Begin each sentence with a capital letter and use ending punctuation. 
  • Use correct spelling for commonly used sight words and phonetically regular words.