First Trimester Curriculum Topics – First Grade 2020-2021

Diane Ambroselli

First Grade 

First Trimester 2020-2021

ELA: Into Reading 

• Selections: (Genre)
  • Informational Text 
  • Poetry 
  • Realistic Fiction
  • Fiction 
  • Fable
  • Biography
• Text-Based Comprehension:
  • Target Strategy: 
    • Summarize 
    • Infer/Predict
    • Monitor/Clarify
    • Question 
    • Analyze and Evaluate 
    • Visualize 
• • Target Skill:
    • Understanding Characters
    • Sequence of Events 
    • Text and Graphic Features
    • Story Structure 
    • Main Idea and Details 
    • Text and Graphic Features
    • Dialogue
    • Author’s Word Choice
    • Story Message
• Phonemic Awareness/Phonics Fluency and High Frequency Words:
  • Phonemic Awareness: 
    • Beginning Sound/ Blend Phonemes 
    • Final Sound; Segment Phonemes
    • Segment Phonemes Blend Phonemes
    • Segment Phonemes; Middle Sound
  • Phonics: 
    • Short a- Consonants n, d- Consonants p, f 
    • Short I, Consonants r, h /z/s , Consonants b, g, Phonogram –it
    • Short o Consonants l, x Inflection –s
    • Short e;  Consonants y, w ; Consonants k, v, j;  Phonogram –et
    • Short u; Consonants qu, z
    • Short a;  Double Final Consonants; and ck Phonogram –ack
    • Short i Clusters with r ; Phonogram –ip
    • Clusters with l Phonogram -ock ; Blends with s
    • Review Short u Final Blends Phonogram –ump

• • Fluency and High Frequency Words:
    • Fluency Accuracy: 
      • Words Connected in Text 
      • Intonation
      • Self-Correct 
      • Phrasing
      • Punctuation 
      • Expression 
      • Rate
      • Word Recognition 
      • Stress
  • Speaking and Listening:
    • Speaking and Listening Skill:
    • How to Have a Good Discussion 
    • Ask and Answer Questions 
    • Using Visuals 
    • Ask and Answer Questions About Stories 
    • Discuss Informational Text: Compare and Contrast 
    • Discuss Sensory Words and Words About Feelings
  • Target-Academic Vocabulary:
    • Classify and Categorize Words
    • Context Clues
    • Multiple-meaning Word
    • Alphabetical Order
    • Synonyms
    • Shades of Meaning
    • Using a Glossary
    • Antonyms
    • Synonyms
  • Spelling:
    • Spelling Principle:
    • Short e;  Consonants y, w ; Consonants k, v, j;  Phonogram –et
    • Short u; Consonants qu, z
    • Short a;  Double Final Consonants; and ck Phonogram –ack
    • Short i Clusters with r ; Phonogram –ip
    • Clusters with l Phonogram -ock ; Blends with s
    • Review Short u Final Blends Phonogram –ump
  • Language:
    • Grammar Skill:
      • Nouns
      • Possessives
      • Action Verbs & Present Tense
      • Adjectives (size and shape)
      • Adjectives (color and number)
      • Complete Sentences
      • Commas in a Series
      • Singular and Plural Nouns
      • Using a, an, and the
  • Writing
    • Focus Trait:
      • Ideas
      • Word Choice 
      • Organization
    • Writing Mode
      • Narrative Writing
      • Informative Writing
    • Writing Mode
      • Labels
      • Captions 
      • Sentences
      • Class Story
      • Sentences That Describe
      • Poetry
      • Description

Math:  

• Review of Kindergarten topics
• Chapter 1 – Number, Number Words, and Ordinals
• Chapter 2 – Addition Strategies and facts to 12
• Chapter 3- Subtraction Strategies and facts to 12
• Chapter 6 – Extended Addition and Subtraction facts  

 Religion:  

• Chapter 1- God is our Father 
• Chapter 2- We believe in the Blessed Trinity 
• Chapter 3- Jesus grew up in a family 
• Chapter 4- Jesus works among the people 
• Chapter 5- Jesus teaches us about love 
• Chapter 13- Advent 
• Chapter 12- Christmas 

Science:

• What Scientist Do
• Bats and Birds
• Apples
• Pumpkins
• Plant Life
• Night Sky
• Reindeer

 Social Studies: 

• School Rules/Being Good Citizens
• Schools  Long Ago and Today
• Social Development 
• Fire Safety 
• Veterans Day
• Thanksgiving
• Winter Holidays