Grade 1 reading and writing skills

• Reading: Literature
• Reading: Informational Text
• Reading: Foundational Skills
• Writing
• Speaking and Listening
• Language

Reading: Literature RL · 9 standards · 7 covered, 1 partly covered

• RL.1.1
  Covered

  Ask and answer questions about key details in a story

  • Reading · Unit 5 · Characters and Setting: Who Is in the Story?, What Characters Do
  • Reading · Unit 13 · Problem, Solution and Retelling: The Problem
• RL.1.2
  Covered

  Retell stories and show understanding of their lesson

  • Reading · Unit 13 · Problem, Solution and Retelling: Retell a Story, The Lesson of a Story
• RL.1.3
  Covered

  Describe characters, settings and major events using key details

  • Reading · Unit 5 · Characters and Setting (whole unit, 7 lessons)
• RL.1.4
  Covered

  Find words that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses

  • Reading · Unit 17 · Feelings in Stories: Feeling Words, Clues About Feelings
• RL.1.5
  Covered

  Explain the difference between books that tell stories and books that give information

  • Reading · Unit 9 · Main Topic and Key Details: Story or Fact Text?
• RL.1.6
  Covered

  Identify who is telling the story

  • Reading · Unit 17 · Feelings in Stories: Who Is Telling the Story?
• RL.1.7
  Not covered

  Use pictures and details to describe characters, setting or events

  Not taught as its own skill.

• RL.1.9
  Covered

  Compare the adventures and experiences of characters

  • Reading · Unit 23 · Fluency and Year Review: Compare Two Stories
• RL.1.10
  Partly covered

  With help, read prose and poetry of grade 1 complexity

  A short story to read in many lessons; no longer texts are assigned in lessons (the Library has longer books).

  • Reading · Unit 1 · Short a and Short i: Read It: Pam and the Pig
  • Reading · Unit 2 · Short o, Short u and Short e: Read It: The Red Hen and the Bug
  • Reading · Unit 23 · Fluency and Year Review (whole unit, 8 lessons)

Reading: Informational Text RI · 10 standards · 7 covered, 1 partly covered

• RI.1.1
  Covered

  Ask and answer questions about key details in a fact text

  • Reading · Unit 9 · Main Topic and Key Details: Key Details, Asking Questions About a Text
• RI.1.2
  Covered

  Name the main topic and retell key details

  • Reading · Unit 9 · Main Topic and Key Details: The Main Topic, Retell the Facts
• RI.1.3
  Covered

  Describe the connection between two people, events or ideas

  • Reading · Unit 22 · Text Features and Connections: How Things Are Connected
• RI.1.4
  Covered

  Ask and answer questions to work out the meaning of words

  • Reading · Unit 9 · Main Topic and Key Details: Words in a Fact Text
• RI.1.5
  Covered

  Use text features: headings, tables of contents, glossaries

  • Reading · Unit 22 · Text Features and Connections: Titles and Headings, Bold Words and Glossaries, Table of Contents
• RI.1.6
  Not covered

  Tell information from pictures apart from information in the words

  Not taught as its own skill.

• RI.1.7
  Not covered

  Use pictures and details to describe key ideas

  Not taught as its own skill.

• RI.1.8
  Covered

  Identify the reasons an author gives to support a point

  • Reading · Unit 22 · Text Features and Connections: Reasons in a Text
• RI.1.9
  Covered

  Find what is the same and different in two texts on the same topic

  • Reading · Unit 22 · Text Features and Connections: Two Texts, One Topic
• RI.1.10
  Partly covered

  With help, read informational texts of grade 1 complexity

  Short passages in lessons.

  • Reading · Unit 9 · Main Topic and Key Details: Read It: Bees
  • Reading · Unit 22 · Text Features and Connections: Read It: Frogs Grow Up
  • Reading · Unit 23 · Fluency and Year Review: Read It: How Plants Grow

Reading: Foundational Skills RF · 4 standards · 3 covered, 1 partly covered

• RF.1.1
  Covered

  Know the features of a sentence: first word, capital letter, end mark

  • Reading · Unit 3 · CVC Words and Sounds: Sentences Start and Stop
  • Writing · Unit 1 · What Is a Sentence? (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 2 · Capital Letters (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 3 · End Marks (whole unit, 7 lessons)
• RF.1.2
  Covered

  Hear and work with sounds: long and short vowels, blending and breaking words into sounds

  • Reading · Unit 3 · CVC Words and Sounds (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Reading · Unit 10 · Silent e: Long a and Long i: Short a or Long a?
  • Reading · Unit 11 · Silent e: Long o, u and e: Short Vowel or Long Vowel?
• RF.1.3
  Covered

  Use phonics: digraphs, final -e, vowel teams, endings, two-syllable words, sight words

  • Reading · Unit 4 · Sight Words, Set 1 (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Reading · Unit 6 · Beginning Blends (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Reading · Unit 7 · Ending Blends (whole unit, 6 lessons)
  • Reading · Unit 8 · Digraphs: sh, ch, th, wh, ck (whole unit, 8 lessons)
  • Reading · Unit 10 · Silent e: Long a and Long i (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Reading · Unit 11 · Silent e: Long o, u and e (whole unit, 6 lessons)
  • Reading · Unit 12 · Sight Words, Set 2 (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Reading · Unit 14 · Vowel Teams ai and ay (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Reading · Unit 15 · Vowel Teams ee and ea (whole unit, 6 lessons)
  • Reading · Unit 16 · Vowel Teams oa and ow (whole unit, 6 lessons)
  • Reading · Unit 18 · Bossy r: ar and or (whole unit, 6 lessons)
  • Reading · Unit 19 · Bossy r: er, ir and ur (whole unit, 6 lessons)
  • Reading · Unit 20 · Endings: -s, -es, -ed and -ing (whole unit, 8 lessons)
  • Reading · Unit 21 · Two-Syllable Words (whole unit, 6 lessons)
• RF.1.4
  Partly covered

  Read grade 1 texts aloud accurately and smoothly, with understanding

  Reading with expression is taught and texts are read for meaning, but the app doesn't listen to children read aloud.

  • Reading · Unit 23 · Fluency and Year Review: Read with Expression

Writing W · 7 standards · 0 covered, 6 partly covered

• W.1.1
  Partly covered

  Write an opinion with a reason and a closing

  Each part is taught and practiced with short answers; children don't write and hand in whole pieces in the app.

  • Writing · Unit 17 · Opinion Writing (whole unit, 7 lessons)
• W.1.2
  Partly covered

  Write to name a topic, give facts and close

  Taught step by step and practiced with short answers; no full pieces are written in the app.

  • Writing · Unit 18 · Informative Writing (whole unit, 7 lessons)
• W.1.3
  Partly covered

  Write about two or more events in order, with order words and an ending

  Taught step by step and practiced with short answers; no full pieces are written in the app.

  • Writing · Unit 12 · Telling a Story in Order (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 19 · Narratives with Feelings (whole unit, 7 lessons)
• W.1.5
  Partly covered

  With help, add details to strengthen writing

  Practiced on sample sentences, not the child's own writing.

  • Writing · Unit 20 · Adding Details (whole unit, 7 lessons)
• W.1.6
  Not covered

  With help, use digital tools to produce and publish writing

• W.1.7
  Partly covered

  Take part in shared research and writing projects

  Finding facts is taught; no shared projects happen in the app.

  • Writing · Unit 18 · Informative Writing: Finding Facts
• W.1.8
  Partly covered

  Recall information or gather it from sources to answer a question

  • Writing · Unit 18 · Informative Writing: Finding Facts, Facts That Fit

Speaking and Listening SL · 6 standards · 0 covered, 1 partly covered

• SL.1.1
  Not covered

  Take part in conversations with classmates and adults

  Speaking and listening with others happen away from the app.

• SL.1.2
  Partly covered

  Ask and answer questions about a text read aloud

  "Read it to me" reads lessons aloud and children answer questions.

  • Reading · Unit 9 · Main Topic and Key Details: Asking Questions About a Text
• SL.1.3
  Not covered

  Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says

• SL.1.4
  Not covered

  Describe people, places, things and events with details

• SL.1.5
  Not covered

  Add drawings or other visuals to descriptions

• SL.1.6
  Not covered

  Speak in complete sentences when it fits the situation

Language L · 5 standards · 2 covered, 3 partly covered

• L.1.1
  Covered

  Use grade 1 grammar: nouns, verbs and tenses, pronouns, adjectives, joining words, articles, sentence types

  Printing letters by hand is not practiced in the app.

  • Writing · Unit 5 · Naming Words: Nouns (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 6 · One and More Than One (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 7 · Action Words: Verbs (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 8 · Past, Present and Future (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 10 · Pronouns (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 11 · Describing Words: Adjectives (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 14 · Joining Words (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 15 · A, An, The, This and That (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 21 · Sentence Variety (whole unit, 8 lessons)
• L.1.2
  Covered

  Capitalize dates and names, use end marks and commas, and spell common patterns

  • Writing · Unit 2 · Capital Letters (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 3 · End Marks (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 4 · Spelling Short Vowel Words (whole unit, 8 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 9 · Spelling Blends and Digraphs (whole unit, 8 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 13 · Commas in Dates and Lists (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 16 · Spelling Silent e Words (whole unit, 8 lessons)
• L.1.4
  Partly covered

  Use sentence clues, word parts and endings to work out word meanings

  • Reading · Unit 9 · Main Topic and Key Details: Words in a Fact Text
  • Reading · Unit 20 · Endings: -s, -es, -ed and -ing: Find the Base Word
• L.1.5
  Partly covered

  Sort words, define them by category and tell shades of meaning

  • Reading · Unit 17 · Feelings in Stories: Feeling Words
  • Writing · Unit 7 · Action Words: Verbs: Picking Strong Verbs
  • Writing · Unit 11 · Describing Words: Adjectives: Feeling Words
• L.1.6
  Partly covered

  Use words learned through conversations, reading and being read to

  New words are taught; using them in speech isn't something the app can check.

  • Writing · Unit 11 · Describing Words: Adjectives (whole unit, 7 lessons)
  • Writing · Unit 14 · Joining Words (whole unit, 7 lessons)

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