Third Trimester Curriculum Topics – First Grade 2019-2020

Miss Ambroselli

First Grade

Third Trimester Curriculum Topics 2020

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ELA:

Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and/or Structural Analysis:

• Associate long vowel wounds with CVVC
• Decode CVVe words and CVVC words with endings /–ing/, /-ed/, /-er/, /est/
• Read and understand contractions with /n’t/
• Decode words with the noun suffix /-er/
• Identify base words in words with endings
• Associate /y/ with /i/ and /e/
• Associate /ay/ with /a/
• Decode words with y/i/, y/e/,and ay/a/
• Decode words ending in y, ier, iest, ied, ies
• Identify base words in words with endings
• Associate a with /a/, e with /e/, i with /i/, o with /o/, u with /u/
• Decode long vowels
• Read contractions formed with is, am, are, will
• Associate aw with /o/ and all with /ol/
• Decode words with /aw/ and /all/
• Associate ar with /ar/, or with /or/ and ir, er, ur with /er/
• Decode words with r-controlled vowels
• Associate oi, oy with /oi/
• Decode words with oi and oy
• Associate ar, or, ear with /er/
• Decode trickers with ar, or, ear/er/
• Associate ou with /ou/ and ow with /ou/, /o/
• Decode words with ow and ou
• Identify /oo/
• Associate oo with /oo/
• Decode words with oo
• Decode words with soft c and g
• Decode trickers with tag-along e
• Identify rhyming words

Spelling:

• Encoding: CVVC words (/-ing/, /-ed/, /-er/, /-est/
• Spell contractions with /n’t/
• Apply spelling rules for adding endings
• Associate /y/ with /i/ and /e/
• Associate /ay/ with /a/
• Decode words with y/i/, y/e/,and ay/a/
• Decode words ending in y, ier, iest, ied, ies
• Identify base words in words with endings
• Spell contractions formed with is, am, are, will
• Encode long-vowel trickers
• Encode Pattern Words with all and aw
• Encode Pattern Words with oi and oy
• Encode trickers with ar, or, ear/er/
• Encode Pattern words with ow and ou
• Encode Pattern Words
• Encode Pattern Words with soft c and g
• Encode trickers with tag-along e

Comprehension:

• Monitor comprehension
• Understand setting and its importance
• Recognize text structure
• Identify lessons taught in a story,  play, or fable
• Summarize
• Recognize plot (beginning, middle, endings
• Generate questions to determine important ideas
• Associate words with pictures
• Recognize text structure
• Understand setting
• Determine cause and effect
• Identify main idea and supporting details
• Draw conclusions and understand characters
• Use prior knowledge and monitor comprehension
• Recognize patterns, rhymes, and rhythm
• Generate questions
• Recognize plot: beginning, middle, end; Problem and solution
• Compare and contrast texts
• Sequence steps and events
• Understand descriptive language
• Use prior knowledge and summarize
• Identify lessons that a story teachers
• Understand characters
• Generate questions

Vocabulary 

• Understand comparative and superlative adjectives
• Understand compound words
• Recognize and understand Memory Words and Pattern Words
• Synonyms, antonyms, homophones, homographs, onomatopoeia, story words, idioms, and multiple meaning words
• Categorize words

Fluency:

• Use proper pitch and volume
• Observe punctuation and use of typographical clues
• Read with natural phrasing and expression
• Read at an appropriate rate, rhythmically, and with expression
• Read with natural phrasing

• Read with appropriate stress

Writing:

• Writing process: Plan, draft, revise, edit, publish

• Plan and draft a personal narrative as part of the writing process
• Revise, edit, and publish a personal narrative as part of the writing process
• Write sentences, notes, messages
• Draw and label a diagram
• Write responses to questions about yourself
• Write directions with sequence words
• Write a story for pictures in a sequence
• Take notes and write a report about an animal
• Plan and draft a story as part of the writing process

Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics:

• Understand verbs and endings –ed, -es
• Understand words with the suffix /-er/

• Understand and form comparative and superlative adjectives
• Understand verbs and endings –ed, -es
• Understand and form words with -ful
• Understand and form adverbs with -ly

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Religion:

• The Three Days
• The Stations of the Cross
• Easter
• We Celebrate the Sacraments
• We are Followers of Jesus
• Jesus Gives us the Eucharist
• We Celebrate the Mass
• We Share God’s Love
• The May Crowning
• Mary- Our Mother
• Saints 

Science:

• • Health and Nutrition
  • Living and Non-living Things
  • Animals and Habitats- Endangered, Ocean, and Egg
  • Animal Adaptations
  • Kites
  • The Sky
  • Sun, Stars, Moon, and Planets
  • Weather and Seasons
  • Caring for the Earth
  • Earth Day
  • Earth’s Resources: Rocks, Minerals, Soil Water, Oxygen
  • Taking Care of the Earth (Pollution)
  • Planting- Plants, Trees, Flowers
  • Insects, Bees, Ladybugs, and Butterflies

Social Studies:

• Caring for our Natural Resources
• Need and Wants
• Spending and Savings (money)
• Being Good Citizens
• All Kinds of Jobs
• America Long Ago

Math:

• • Subtraction: Two-Digit Numbers with Regrouping
  • Geometry
  • Data and Graphs: Using Operations
  • Money and Time
  • Measurements
  • Fractions and Probability
  • Fact Families