1st Grade Curriculum
Language ArtsReading Workshop:
Unit 1: Building Good Reading Habits Goals: reinforce learning from Kindergarten and establish ability-based partnerships that will help each other become more strategic readers. Unit 2: Learning About the World: Reading Nonfiction Goals: explore nonfiction, while learning comprehension strategies, word solving, vocabulary, fluency, and author's craft. Unit 3: Readers Have Big Jobs to Do: Fluency, Phonics, and Comprehension Goals: focuses on the reading process to set kids up to read increasingly complex texts. Unit 4: Meeting Characters and Learning Lessons: A Study of Story Elements Goals: spotlights story elements and the skills that are foundational to literal and inferential comprehension, including empathy, imagination, envisioning, prediction, character study, and interpretation. Writing Workshop: Unit 1: Small Moments: Writing with Focus Goals: take everyday events of own life and make them into focused, well-structured stories and learn to breathe life into the characters by making them talk, think, and interact. Unit 2: Nonfiction Chapter Books Goals: combine pictures and charts with domain-specific vocabulary and create engaging teaching texts. Unit 3: Writing Reviews Goals: create persuasive reviews of all sorts that will hook the reader, clearly express the writers' opinion and bolster their argument in convincing ways. Unit 4: From Scenes to Series: Writing Fiction Goals: Students learn to "show, not tell" and use action, dialogue, and feelings to create a whole series of fiction books modeled after Henry and Mudge. |
MathEnvision Math:
Topic 1- Understanding Addition Topic 2- Understanding Subtraction Topic 3- Five and Ten Relationships Topic 4- Addition and Subtraction Facts to 12 Topic 5- Addition facts to 20 Topic 6- Subtraction Facts to 20 Topic 7- Counting and Number Patterns to 120 Topic 8- Tens and Ones Topic 9- Comparing and Ordering Numbers to 100 Topic 10-Adding with Tens and Ones Topic 11- Subtracting with Tens and Ones Topic 12- Length Topic 13- Time Topic 14- Using Data to Answer Questions Topic 15- Geometry Topic 16- Fractions of Shapes Topic 17- Step Up to 2nd Grade |
Science,
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