1st Grade
Oklahoma Academic Standards · Oklahoma 2021
Standard 1: Listening and Speaking
Listening
Students will actively listen using agreed-upon discussion rules.
Students will follow simple two- and three-step oral directions.
Speaking
Students will work respectfully with peers.
Students will engage in collaborative discussions about various topics and texts, including their own writing, with peers in small and large groups.
Students will ask and answer relevant questions to seek help or get information to confirm understanding.
Students will orally describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details expressing their ideas.
Standard 2: Reading and Writing Foundations
Phonological Awareness
Students will count, segment, blend, and delete syllables in spoken words.
Students will blend and segment onset and rime in spoken words (e.g., /ch/+ at = chat).
Students will isolate and pronounce medial sounds in spoken words.
Students will blend phonemes to form spoken words with 4-6 phonemes, including consonant blends (e.g., /s/ /t/ /r/ /i/ /ng/ = string).
Students will segment phonemes in spoken words with 4-6 phonemes into individual phonemes (e.g., string = /s/ /t/ /r/ /i/ /ng/).
Students will add, delete, and substitute phonemes in one-syllable spoken words with 3-5 phonemes (e.g., add /c/ to the beginning of at to say cat; delete the /p/ from pin, to say in; substitute the /o/ in stop with /e/ to say step).
Print Concepts
Students will recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., capitalization of the first word, ending punctuation: period, exclamation point, question mark).
Students will correctly form letters and use appropriate spacing for letters, words, and sentences using left-to-right and top-to-bottom progression.
Phonics and Word Study
Students will blend and decode two-phoneme and three-phoneme words.
Students will decode long and short vowels, including initial, medial, and final sounds in common CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words (e.g., cat, bed, pen).
Students will decode some common sight words in isolation and in context.
Fluency
Students will read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
Students will read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.
Students will use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
Reading and Writing Process
Students will identify the topic or main idea with a supporting detail of a text.
Students will discriminate between fiction and nonfiction text.
Students will sequence the plot (i.e., beginning, middle, and end) of a story.
Students will retell facts and details from an informational text.
Students will express themselves through drawing and writing.
Students will sequence the action or details of stories/texts.
Students will use appropriate spacing between letters and words in writing.
Students will add to their writing and drawing.
Students will share their stories/texts with authentic audiences.
Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing
Reading
Students will identify the author’s purpose (i.e., tell a story, provide information) with prompting.
Students will describe who is telling a story with prompting.
Students will find textual evidence when provided with examples of literary elements: setting (i.e., time and place), main characters and their traits.
Students will ask and answer basic questions (e.g., who, what, where, why, and when) about texts.
Students will begin to use details from a text to draw conclusions and make predictions.
Students will begin to locate facts that are clearly stated in a text.
Writing
Students will write narratives incorporating characters, plot (i.e., beginning, middle, end), and a basic setting (i.e., time, place) with prompting.
Students will begin to write facts about a topic in response to a text read aloud to demonstrate understanding with prompting.
Students will write an opinion about a topic and provide a reason to support the opinion with prompting.
Standard 4: Vocabulary
Reading
Students will begin to determine relationships among words, including synonyms and antonyms.
Students will use context clues to determine the meaning of words with prompting.
Students will use word parts (e.g., affixes, Anglo-Saxon roots, stems) to define unfamiliar words with prompting.
Students will begin to use grade-level resource materials (e.g., simple dictionary, glossary) to clarify the meaning of words.
Students will acquire new grade-level vocabulary, relate new words to prior knowledge, and apply vocabulary in new situations.
Writing
Students will use grade-level vocabulary to communicate ideas through speaking and writing.
Students will use language in speaking and writing according to purpose with prompting.
Standard 5: Language
Reading
Students will recognize simple sentences.
Students will recognize parts of speech in sentences: nouns as concrete objects (i.e., people, places, and things), regular plural nouns, present-tense verbs as actions, color, size, and number adjectives, prepositions, the pronouns I, me, you, and we, the conjunctions and, or, and but, the adverbs too and very.
Writing
Students will compose simple sentences that conclude with an end mark.
Students will use nouns, verbs, and adjectives to add clarity and variety to their writing.
Students will capitalize the first letter of a sentence, proper names, and months and days of the week.
Students will use periods, question marks, and exclamation points.
Standard 6: Research
Reading
Students will identify who can answer questions about their topic or what resources they will need to find the information.
Students will identify and use graphic and text features to understand texts: photos, illustrations, titles, labels, headings, charts, graphs.
Students will identify the location and purpose of the table of contents and glossary.
Writing
Students will generate questions about topics of interest for research.
Students will organize information found during group or individual research, using graphic organizers or other aids with prompting.
Students will share relevant information for various purposes.
Standard 7: Multimodal Literacies
Reading
Students will explain how ideas and topics are depicted in multimodal content.
Writing
Students will use a combination of writing, sound, visual content, and/or movement to communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
Standard 8: Independent Reading and Writing
Reading
Students will select texts for academic and personal purposes and read independently for extended periods of time.
Writing
Students will write independently using a combination of emergent and conventional writing with prompting.