Language+Arts


 * Here are some of the writing and communication skills that your child will learn in first grade:

__First Quarter__**
 * **Build vocabulary by memorizing sight words (weekly word wall words)**
 * **Letter recognition**
 * **Initial consonant sounds**
 * **Color words, and number words**
 * **Rhyming words**
 * **Vowels**
 * **Syllables**
 * **Word families**
 * **Antonyms**
 * **ABC order**
 * **Spelling**
 * **Main idea of a story**
 * **Sequencing pictures and parts of a story**
 * **Identifying details, characters and setting in a story**
 * **Knowing the difference between fact and fantasy**
 * **Reading comprehension and decoding skills**
 * **Expository writing- 3 sentences**


 * __Second Quarter__**
 * **Continue practice of first quarter skills**
 * **Contractions**
 * **Compound words**
 * **Synonyms**
 * **Decoding skills**
 * **Cause and Effect**
 * **Narrative Writing- 3 sentences**


 * __Third Quarter__**
 * **Continue practice of first and second quarter skills**
 * **Homonyms**
 * **Parts of speech**
 * **Work on self-correction and reading on**
 * **Predictions**
 * **Recalls written text**
 * **Punctuation and capitalization**
 * **Expository Writing- 6 sentences (with a beginning, middle and end)**
 * **Answering the 5 W's (who, what, when, where and why)**


 * __Fourth Quarter__**
 * **Review all skills**
 * **Writing a complete story**
 * **Expository Writing- 6 sentences (with a beginning, middle and end)**
 * **Narrative Writing- 6 sentences**