The Common Core in Washington

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Skills available for Washington first-grade language arts standards

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Common Core State Standards: Reading: Foundational Skills Common Core State Standards: Reading: Foundational Skills
Common Core State Standards: Reading: Informational Text Common Core State Standards: Reading: Informational Text
Common Core State Standards: Reading: Literature Common Core State Standards: Reading: Literature

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R Reading

Foundational Skills
- ELA.1.R.1 Students know and apply the basic features of print and how it is organized.
  - ELA.1.R.1.a Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence.
  - ELA.1.R.1.b Recognize that spoken words are represented by specific sequences of letters in print.
    - Choose the two words that are the same (K-F.1)
  - ELA.1.R.1.c Recognize that words are separated by spaces in print.
    - Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly (1)
  - ELA.1.R.1.d Tell how the text/visual features represent and/or add to the written text's meaning.
    - Use text features (1-GG.1)
- ELA.1.R.2 Students demonstrate how sounds, syllables, words, and pauses function in spoken language (phonological awareness).
  - ELA.1.R.2.a Recognize, segment, blend, and count the syllables in spoken words.
  - ELA.1.R.2.b Recognize, isolate, and blend initial, medial, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.
  - ELA.1.R.2.c Orally produce single-syllable words by blending individual sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.
    - Blend each sound in a word together (1-D.1)
  - ELA.1.R.2.d Add, delete, or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple words to form new words.
- ELA.1.R.3 Students decode words accurately by applying grade-level phonics and word analysis skills.
  - ELA.1.R.3.a Produce the sounds for short and long vowels, consonants, and use them to decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  - ELA.1.R.3.b Know the spelling sound-correspondence for common consonant digraphs.
  - ELA.1.R.3.c Recognize and apply knowledge of silent –e (CVCe) and common vowel team (CVVC) patterns for representing long vowel sounds.
  - ELA.1.R.3.d Recognize and apply the understanding that every syllable must have a vowel sound.
  - ELA.1.R.3.e Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words by breaking them into syllables and applying known spelling patterns.
  - ELA.1.R.3.f Add, delete, or substitute letters and common spelling patterns (word families) to form new words and demonstrate how patterns change pronunciation or meaning.
  - ELA.1.R.3.g Read words with inflectional endings.
  - ELA.1.R.3.h Recognize and read irregularly spelled high frequency words with increased accuracy and automaticity.
  - ELA.1.R.3.i Read simple sentences and short paragraphs with increasing fluency (accuracy, rate, and expression), using self-monitoring to notice and correct errors.
Comprehending and Interpreting Texts
- ELA.1.R.4 Students comprehend and interpret texts during shared reading, read aloud, and independent reading, using knowledge of print, language, and text features to make meaning.
  - ELA.1.R.4.a Preview the text by noting author, illustrator, title, topic, genre, and images.
  - ELA.1.R.4.b Use personal connections and content knowledge to visualize, imagine, and/or otherwise engage the senses to make meaning of the text.
  - ELA.1.R.4.c Make predictions and check them against what is in the text.
    - What will happen next? (1-AA.2)
  - ELA.1.R.4.d Use a variety of strategies to maintain motivation and reconnect to the flow of reading.
  - ELA.1.R.4.e Ask and answer questions about the topic and key details in a text.
  - ELA.1.R.4.f Describe a story's characters, setting, and major events.
  - ELA.1.R.4.g Retell familiar stories in their own words and/or say what they learned from a text.
    - Order images in a story (1-DD.1)
Analyzing, Evaluating, and Using Texts
- ELA.1.R.5 Students analyze texts by making connections between texts, authors, readers, and the world.
  - ELA.1.R.5.a Describe what words or images in a text make them think, feel, or wonder.
    - Which feeling matches the picture? (1-AA.1)
  - ELA.1.R.5.b Tell the main idea or lesson in a text and make a personal connection to it.
  - ELA.1.R.5.c Compare and contrast the narrators, characters, settings, plots, and/or ideas in two or more texts.

W Writing

Writing Purposes and Products
- ELA.1.W.1 Students compose multimodal texts through shared and independent writing activities in a variety of genres for a variety of purposes.
  - ELA.1.W.1.a Compose in order to describe experiences, ideas, and imaginings.
  - ELA.1.W.1.b Compose in order to inform others about their observations and explanations of the world.
  - ELA.1.W.1.c Compose in order to express their opinions and/or preferences.
    - Complete the fact and opinion sentences (1)
  - ELA.1.W.1.d Compose in order to persuade others.
  - ELA.1.W.1.e Compose in order to tell the story of two or more sequenced events.
    - Order images in a story (1-DD.1)
Plan and Draft
- ELA.1.W.2 Students plan and complete shared and independent writing projects.
  - ELA.1.W.2.a Connect the task to their interests, experiences, or topics they know about.
  - ELA.1.W.2.b Recognize that writing shares ideas with specific readers or listeners.
  - ELA.1.W.2.c Identify and sequence steps to complete the writing project or task.
- ELA.1.W.3 Students draft content, using tools effectively.
  - ELA.1.W.3.a Identify topics and generate ideas.
  - ELA.1.W.3.b Gather ideas and select material from group research, images, and/or multimedia artifacts that illustrate and support their ideas.
  - ELA.1.W.3.c Tell information about a single topic.
  - ELA.1.W.3.d Compare and contrast information within a topic.
  - ELA.1.W.3.e State a detail about an opinion and/or preference.
  - ELA.1.W.3.f Use language to persuade others with feelings and reasons.
  - ELA.1.W.3.g Tell events in stories in sequence, using details and temporal words to signal order.
    - Identify time-order words (1-CCC.2)
    - Put the sentences in order (1-CCC.3)
  - ELA.1.W.3.h Add labels to drawings and diagrams.
- ELA.1.W.4 Students organize content across genres.
  - ELA.1.W.4.a Name topics to introduce them.
    - Choose topic sentences for expository paragraphs (1)
  - ELA.1.W.4.b Group or sequence related content.
    - Put the sentences in order (1-CCC.3)
  - ELA.1.W.4.c Provide a sense of closure.
Revise and Edit
- ELA.1.W.5 Students discuss, revise, and/or edit their compositions.
  - ELA.1.W.5.a Re-read writing to decide if it makes sense.
  - ELA.1.W.5.b Engage with an adult or peer for feedback about their compositions.
  - ELA.1.W.5.c Add, remove, or change words, details, and/or pictures to better communicate and represent meaning.
  - ELA.1.W.5.d Edit for mechanics and conventions. [Demonstrate command of Language standards in grades K–1.]
    - Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence (1-TT.11)
    - Capitalize sentences and the pronoun "I" (1-EEE.3)
Share and Publish
- ELA.1.W.6 Students share and publish compositions for known and trusted audiences.

L Language

Knowledge of Language
- ELA.1.L.1 Students notice when and why language is used differently at school, at home, and with peers.
  - ELA.1.L.1.a Compare words and ways of speaking used at school, at home, and with peers.
  - ELA.1.L.1.b Identify language that fits different situations or audiences.
Structure and Functions of English
- ELA.1.L.2 Students produce and expand sentences in conversations and writing about experiences, events, and ideas.
  - ELA.1.L.2.a Expand sentences by adding details that clarify meaning.
  - ELA.1.L.2.b Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in sentences.
  - ELA.1.L.2.c Use verbs to communicate past, present, and future.
- ELA.1.L.3 Students determine the meaning of and use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and being read to.
  - ELA.1.L.3.a Use context, questions, roots, and affixes to clarify the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases.
  - ELA.1.L.3.b Use common, proper, and possessive nouns and personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns.
  - ELA.1.L.3.c Understand and use high-frequency adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and determiners.
- ELA.1.L.4 Students explore relationships among words and meaning in the context of conversations, reading, and writing about experiences, events, and ideas.
  - ELA.1.L.4.a Sort common objects into categories to identify connections between words and their meanings.
    - Which word is not like the others? (1-MM.2)
  - ELA.1.L.4.b Sort and define words by category and key attributes.
    - Sort words into categories (1-MM.1)
  - ELA.1.L.4.c Distinguish and express shades of meaning among verbs and adjectives that differ in manner or intensity.
Foundational Written Language (Encoding and Transcription)
- ELA.1.L.5 Students develop foundational writing skills to record their ideas using letters, words, and sentences.
  - ELA.1.L.5.a Form all lower- and upper-case letters legibly and write with appropriate spacing.
  - ELA.1.L.5.b Spell words using sound-letter correspondences, common spelling patterns, and taught phonics patterns.
  - ELA.1.L.5.c Spell one-syllable and high frequency words, including irregularly spelled words with increasing accuracy.
  - ELA.1.L.5.d Capitalize sentence beginnings, the pronoun I, and names of people and places.
  - ELA.1.L.5.e Use periods, exclamation points, and question marks to end complete sentences.
    - Choose the right end mark (1-TT.5)
  - ELA.1.L.5.f Develop automaticity in spelling and handwriting and/or other modalities to support written expression.

RML Research and Media Literacy

Research and Inquiry
- ELA.1.RML.1 Students engage in research and inquiry by asking questions and seeking answers from provided information sources, independently and collaboratively.
  - ELA.1.RML.1.a Ask questions about a provided topic or things that make them curious.
  - ELA.1.RML.1.b Generate ideas for where they might find answers to their questions, including by talking to people about the topic.
  - ELA.1.RML.1.c Identify a variety of information sources and where to find them, including by exploring libraries.
  - ELA.1.RML.1.d Contribute suggestions when adults use digital search tools.
  - ELA.1.RML.1.e Identify information that does and does not answer their questions.
  - ELA.1.RML.1.f Use and/or share new learning.
Media Literacy
- ELA.1.RML.2 Students identify reactions to media messages.
  - ELA.1.RML.2.a Identify differences between ways in which people react to media messages.
  - ELA.1.RML.2.b Identify how media messages make them feel.
- ELA.1.RML.3 Students identify the purposes of media messages.
  - ELA.1.RML.3.a Identify media messages that are selling something and media messages that are just for fun.
- ELA.1.RML.4 Students identify characteristics of different parts of media messages.
  - ELA.1.RML.4.a Identify facts and opinions within media messages.
  - ELA.1.RML.4.b Identify what's realistic and what's pretend within media messages.
  - ELA.1.RML.4.c Describe images within media messages.
- ELA.1.RML.5 Students identify people who create media messages and choices they make.
  - ELA.1.RML.5.a Identify people who are experts on a particular topic.

The Common Core in Washington

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R Reading

Foundational Skills

ELA.1.R.1 Students know and apply the basic features of print and how it is organized.

ELA.1.R.1.a Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence.

ELA.1.R.1.b Recognize that spoken words are represented by specific sequences of letters in print.

ELA.1.R.1.c Recognize that words are separated by spaces in print.

ELA.1.R.1.d Tell how the text/visual features represent and/or add to the written text's meaning.

ELA.1.R.2 Students demonstrate how sounds, syllables, words, and pauses function in spoken language (phonological awareness).

ELA.1.R.2.a Recognize, segment, blend, and count the syllables in spoken words.

ELA.1.R.2.b Recognize, isolate, and blend initial, medial, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.

ELA.1.R.2.c Orally produce single-syllable words by blending individual sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.

ELA.1.R.2.d Add, delete, or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple words to form new words.

ELA.1.R.3 Students decode words accurately by applying grade-level phonics and word analysis skills.

ELA.1.R.3.a Produce the sounds for short and long vowels, consonants, and use them to decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

ELA.1.R.3.b Know the spelling sound-correspondence for common consonant digraphs.

ELA.1.R.3.c Recognize and apply knowledge of silent –e (CVCe) and common vowel team (CVVC) patterns for representing long vowel sounds.

ELA.1.R.3.d Recognize and apply the understanding that every syllable must have a vowel sound.

ELA.1.R.3.e Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words by breaking them into syllables and applying known spelling patterns.

ELA.1.R.3.f Add, delete, or substitute letters and common spelling patterns (word families) to form new words and demonstrate how patterns change pronunciation or meaning.

ELA.1.R.3.g Read words with inflectional endings.

ELA.1.R.3.h Recognize and read irregularly spelled high frequency words with increased accuracy and automaticity.

ELA.1.R.3.i Read simple sentences and short paragraphs with increasing fluency (accuracy, rate, and expression), using self-monitoring to notice and correct errors.

Comprehending and Interpreting Texts

ELA.1.R.4 Students comprehend and interpret texts during shared reading, read aloud, and independent reading, using knowledge of print, language, and text features to make meaning.

ELA.1.R.4.a Preview the text by noting author, illustrator, title, topic, genre, and images.

ELA.1.R.4.b Use personal connections and content knowledge to visualize, imagine, and/or otherwise engage the senses to make meaning of the text.

ELA.1.R.4.c Make predictions and check them against what is in the text.

ELA.1.R.4.d Use a variety of strategies to maintain motivation and reconnect to the flow of reading.

ELA.1.R.4.e Ask and answer questions about the topic and key details in a text.

ELA.1.R.4.f Describe a story's characters, setting, and major events.

ELA.1.R.4.g Retell familiar stories in their own words and/or say what they learned from a text.

Analyzing, Evaluating, and Using Texts

ELA.1.R.5 Students analyze texts by making connections between texts, authors, readers, and the world.

ELA.1.R.5.a Describe what words or images in a text make them think, feel, or wonder.

ELA.1.R.5.b Tell the main idea or lesson in a text and make a personal connection to it.

ELA.1.R.5.c Compare and contrast the narrators, characters, settings, plots, and/or ideas in two or more texts.

W Writing

Writing Purposes and Products

ELA.1.W.1 Students compose multimodal texts through shared and independent writing activities in a variety of genres for a variety of purposes.

ELA.1.W.1.a Compose in order to describe experiences, ideas, and imaginings.

ELA.1.W.1.b Compose in order to inform others about their observations and explanations of the world.

ELA.1.W.1.c Compose in order to express their opinions and/or preferences.

ELA.1.W.1.d Compose in order to persuade others.

ELA.1.W.1.e Compose in order to tell the story of two or more sequenced events.

Plan and Draft

ELA.1.W.2 Students plan and complete shared and independent writing projects.

ELA.1.W.2.a Connect the task to their interests, experiences, or topics they know about.

ELA.1.W.2.b Recognize that writing shares ideas with specific readers or listeners.

ELA.1.W.2.c Identify and sequence steps to complete the writing project or task.

ELA.1.W.3 Students draft content, using tools effectively.

ELA.1.W.3.a Identify topics and generate ideas.

ELA.1.W.3.b Gather ideas and select material from group research, images, and/or multimedia artifacts that illustrate and support their ideas.

ELA.1.W.3.c Tell information about a single topic.

ELA.1.W.3.d Compare and contrast information within a topic.

ELA.1.W.3.e State a detail about an opinion and/or preference.

ELA.1.W.3.f Use language to persuade others with feelings and reasons.

ELA.1.W.3.g Tell events in stories in sequence, using details and temporal words to signal order.

ELA.1.W.3.h Add labels to drawings and diagrams.

ELA.1.W.4 Students organize content across genres.

ELA.1.W.4.a Name topics to introduce them.

ELA.1.W.4.b Group or sequence related content.

ELA.1.W.4.c Provide a sense of closure.

Revise and Edit

ELA.1.W.5 Students discuss, revise, and/or edit their compositions.

ELA.1.W.5.a Re-read writing to decide if it makes sense.

ELA.1.W.5.b Engage with an adult or peer for feedback about their compositions.

ELA.1.W.5.c Add, remove, or change words, details, and/or pictures to better communicate and represent meaning.

ELA.1.W.5.d Edit for mechanics and conventions. [Demonstrate command of Language standards in grades K–1.]

Share and Publish

ELA.1.W.6 Students share and publish compositions for known and trusted audiences.

L Language

Knowledge of Language

ELA.1.L.1 Students notice when and why language is used differently at school, at home, and with peers.

ELA.1.L.1.a Compare words and ways of speaking used at school, at home, and with peers.

ELA.1.L.1.b Identify language that fits different situations or audiences.

Structure and Functions of English

ELA.1.L.2 Students produce and expand sentences in conversations and writing about experiences, events, and ideas.