I can use details to describe people, places, things, and events. I can express ideas and feelings clearly.

I can identify individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in text. I can describe connections between two individuals, two [...]

I can identify unknown words and phrases. I can learn the meanings of words and phrases by asking and answering [...]

I can give examples of text features. I can explain how text features help locate key facts or information. I [...]

I can locate pictures and illustrations in a text. I can tell the difference between what I learned from pictures [...]

I can describe an illustration in a text. I can identify details in a text. I can use the illustrations [...]

I can identify why an author wrote a text. I can identify the points an author makes in a text. [...]

I can compare and contrast two texts on the same topic.

Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.

Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).

Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words .

I can blend sounds to make one syllable words.

I can identify beginning, middle and ending sounds in one syllable words.

Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds (phonemes).

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

I can read words with sh- ch- th- wh- (digraphs).

I can read one syllable words.

I can recognize words with final e. I can read words with common vowel teams with long vowel sounds.

Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.

I can decode two syllable words by breaking them into parts.

I can ask questions about important parts in a story. I can answer questions about important parts in a story.

With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

I can understand the central message in a story. I can retell stories in my own words, using characters, setting, [...]

I can retell stories in my own words, using characters, setting, and events.

I can identify words and phrases in a story or poem that tell me how something looks, sounds, tastes, feels, [...]

I can read or listen to books that tell stories. I can read or listen to books that give information. [...]

I can identify the characters in a story. I can recognize when more than one character is telling the story. [...]

I can look at the illustrations in a story and describe what I see. I can identify details in a [...]

I can compare and contrast what characters do and feel in the stories I read.

I can ask questions about important facts from an informational text. I can answer questions about important facts from an [...]

I can read informational 1st grade texts, and ask for help when needed.

I can tell the main topic from an informational text. I can retell important facts from an informational text.

Subtract multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 from multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 (positive or zero differences), [...]

Order three objects by length; compare the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object.

Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, by laying multiple copies of a shorter [...]

Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data [...]

Distinguish between defining attributes (e.g., triangles are closed and three-sided) versus non-defining attributes (e.g., color, orientation, overall size); for a [...]

Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, [...]

Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, [...]

Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking [...]

Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, [...]

Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract. Examples: If 8 + 3 = 11 is known, then [...]

Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10 – 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when [...]

Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).

Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making [...]

Understand the meaning of the equal sign, and determine if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false. For [...]

Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown [...]

Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a [...]