By the end of first grade, students will be expected to:

Reading:

• Identify capital and lower case letters and their corresponding sounds.

• Blend letters to form words

• Recognize consonant sounds, simple vowel sounds (short and long), and blends.

• Understand word endings (s, ed, ing).

• Be able to read their own writing.

• Read Lewiston School Department High Frequency Sight Words 1-125.(scroll down for this list, as well as the Kindergarten list of 25 words.)

        Use reading strategies for understanding:

•    Use picture clues.       

•    Reread the word or sentence.

•    Skip the word, read to the end of the sentence, then come back to the word.

•    Look at the beginning sound.

•    Think of the story meaning and what makes sense.

•    Think if the word sounds right.

•    Look for little words or word chunks in big words.

•    Predict story events and story endings.

•    Identify main characters, setting, main idea, and details in stories.

•    Identify a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Writing:

• Use invented or developmental spelling in daily writing.

• Print each capital and lower case letter of the alphabet correctly.

• Write in complete sentences.

• Capitalize the first word of a sentence, names of people, and the pronoun I.

• Use correct punctuation (., !, ?)

• Begin to proofread and revise their writing with adult help.

• Create a story.

• Leave spaces between words.

• Spell Rebecca Sitton's priority words 1-40. (scroll down for this list)

• Speak in complete sentences.

• Stay on a topic when speaking.

• Follow two-step and three-step oral directions.

• Complete oral presentations (reciting poetry and retelling a story using a story board.)

HOW PARENTS CAN HELP:

• Read with your child every day, and let them see you reading.

• Encourage your child to read, read, read.

• Ask questions about the stories he/she has read.

• Make regular visits to the library with your child.

• Point out printed words in the community or home (stop signs, words in the newspaper, signs in stores, words on cereal boxes, etc.)

• Tell stories about your family history and culture.

• Limit your child's television viewing and monitor the programs he/she watches.

• Remind your child that learning something new takes time and lots of practice.

MATH

Numbers and Operations:

• Recognize, identify, count, and write numbers to 99.

• Demonstrate an understanding of numbers up to 99, equal to, more than, or less than.

• Demonstrate an understanding of odd and even numbers.

• Demonstrate and understand the concepts of ordinal numbers: first, second, third,...

• Solve simple addition and subtraction problems up to 20.

• Memorize addition and subtraction facts up to 10.

• Add and subtract ones and tens without regrouping.

Geometry:

• Identify and describe geometric objects in their environment and describe their position (next to, top, bottom, left, right)

• Compare specific attributes of shapes (#of sides, size, roundness, #of corners)

• Find lines of symmetry.

Measurement:

• Tell and show time to the hour and half hour.

• Identify the hour hand and minute hand.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the days of the week, months of the year, minutes in an hour, and hours in a day.

• Identify and know the value of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.

• Give the value of a group of coins up to a dollar (using pennies, nickels, and dimes)

• Match a group of coins up to a value of $1.00 using pennies, nickels, and dimes.

• Compare the length, weight, and volume of objects using standard or non-standard measurement tools.

Data Analysis and Probability:

• Collect, represent, and compare data (biggest, smallest, most often, least often) using pictures, bar graphs, tally charts, and pictographs, and explain how the data was organized and represented.

• Begin to mentally estimate the number of objects less than 20.

Algebra:

• Describe and reproduce a pattern (ABAB, ABCABC).

• Recognize the pattern of counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s to 100, and predict the next number.

• Complete number sentences by an unknown (2+_=3).

• Write addition and subtraction fact families 1-10.

HOW PARENTS CAN HELP:

• Spend an evening practicing math skills with games like Yahtzee and Dominoes.

• Challenge your child with math puzzles.

• Visit math web sites (see the links pages.)

• Ask your child to estimate the cost of groceries when shopping.

• Ask your child to weigh fruits and vegetables when shopping.

• Encourage your child to measure things at home.

• Ask your child to count coins.

• Point out and discuss various shapes and sizes around the home.

• Link schedules family to the time of day (lunch at noon, bedtime at 8:00, etc.)

• Remind your child to do their best

• Provide your child with a nutritious breakfast daily.

• Make school a priority.

Lewiston School Department's Kindergarten Sight Word List

       Lewiston School Department's First Grade Sight Word List

The Top 40 Spelling Words for First Grade