| First Grade Benchmarks What your child should be able to do each Nine Weeks |
Before starting First Grade your child should be able to: * Hold a pencil correctly * Form letters correctly * Write on lined paper * Count to 50 * Identify upper and lower case letters of the alphabet with 100% accuracy * Identify letter sounds with 100% accuracy * Discriminate between a letter, a word, and a sentence * Recognize at least 90% the words on the Kindergarten (List 1) word list * Use left to right pattern of writing * Print first and last name *Follow oral directions |
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| The First Nine Weeks Your Child Should Be Able To: * count to 100 * Recognize numbers from 0 to 100 *Count to 100 by 2's, 5's, and 10's with 100 % accuracy *Recognize the words on List 1 with 100% accuracy * Add with sums to 6 * Subtract with differences to 6 * Use the initial letter sound decoding strategy * Blend sounds orally to make words * Recognize rhyming words * Complete a word family * Identify letter sounds with 100% accuracy * Write a complete sentence with correct punctuation ( . ! ? ) * Distinguish between real and fantasy stories * Correctly space words and sentences * Write correctly on lined paper * Recognize a book author, illustrator, title, title page, and table of contents |
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| The Second Nine Weeks Your Child Should Be Able To: * Mastered all benchmarks for the first nine week * Identify long vowels sounds * Identify vowel rules * Apply long vowel rules * Decode "r" controlled vowel sounds to read words * Count to 100 by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's with 100 % accuracy * Count backwards from 20 * Recognize the words on Llist 1 and List 2 with 100 % accuracy * Use the initial and ending letter sound decoding strategy * Recognize word "Chunks" in order to decode words * Add with sums to 12 * Subtract with differences to 12 * Decode long vowel words * Write a least 3 sentences about a topic * Retell a story * Sequence a story * Use phonetic strategies to spell correctly * Alphabetize words to the first letter * Correctly punctuate a sentence ( . ? ! ) * Tell the author and title of a story * Idenify the main idea of a sentence or story |
| The Third Nine Weeks Your Child Should Be Able To: *Mastered all benchmarks for the second nine weeks * Recognize the words on the List 1, List 2, and List 3 with 100% accuracy *Add with sums to 18 * Subtract with differences to 18 * Write a paragraph on a topic * Identify nouns, verbs, and adjectives * Identify the subject of a sentence *Identify the root of a word |
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| The Fourth Nine Weeks Your Child Should be Able To: *Mastered all benchmarks for the third nine weeks * Recognize 100% of the words on the List 1, List 2, List 3, and List 4 * Write a coherent story * Tell time to the hour and half hour * Identify coins and dollar bill * Identify the value of coins and a dollar bill * Count dimes, nickels, , and pennies * Decode digraphs ( sh, ch, th etc.) * Decode dithongs |
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