Working toward the goals of reading with comprehension, writing with skill, and communicating effectively and responsibly, each first grader will learn to:

Reading:

• See reading as a source of information and pleasure.
• Experience being read to.
• Use consonant and vowel patterns in reading and spelling (phonics).
• Understand what has been read.
• Understand simple punctuation and phrasing when reading orally.
• Use a table of contents.
• Use directionality to gain meaning from charts, maps, graphs, etc.
• Sequence and re-tell stories.
• Read independently at his/her developmental level.

Reading Quick Check: Does your child:

• Show evidence of confirming predictions?
• Make more accurate predictions of word and structure?
• "Practice" reading?
• Talk about the act of reading?

Writing:

• Print capital and lower-case letters and numbers legibly as taught in school.
• Alphabetize words to the second letter.
• Use ideas, voice and conventions in writing.
• Use capitalization editing marks to revise written work.
• Use technology as appropriate.

Communication:

• Present ideas orally in a way that can be easily understood.
• Continue listening and communicating effectively in groups.
• Extend reading, writing, and spoken vocabulary.
• Integrate reading, writing, and communication skills to produce projects and/or oral presentations on topics covered in math, science and social studies.