First Trimester Curriculum Topics – First Grade 2018-2019

Miss Ambroselli
First Grade
First Trimester  2018 – 2019

ELA: Journeys: Lessons 1-9

• 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:
    • Words with Short a
    • Words with Short i
    • Words with Short o
    • Words with Short e
    • Words with Short u
• 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
• Writing :
  • Focus Trait:
    • Ideas
    • Word Choice
    • Organization
  • Writing Mode:
    • Narrative Writing
    • Informative Writing
  • Writing Form:
    • 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: 

• Our Class Saints
• 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
• Science of Light
• Pumpkins
• Seasons
• Spiders
• Hibernation

Social Studies: 

• School Rules
• Christopher Columbus
• Fire Safety
• Veterans Day
• Pilgrims/Wampanoag

Pattern Words

http://storage.cloversites.com/faithevlutheranchurch/documents/First%20Grade%20Spelling%202016.pdf

Memory Words:

http://urskindergarten.yolasite.com/resources/dolch%20words%20in%20superkids.pdf

Handwriting

https://www.handwritingworksheets.com/print-1/make-p.htm