Promotional Criteria
First Grade Promotional Criteria
Students will be expected to successfully perform the following communication arts skills to be ready for second grade:
- Know each written word corresponds to a spoken word
- Identify rhyming words
- Identify onsets (initial sounds)
- Blend sounds to make a word
- Identify location of a given sound in a word (beginning and end)
- Identify beginning and ending sounds
- Substitute sounds within words
- Recognize Fry’s High Frequency Sight Words (50 of 1-100)
- Recognize content area vocabulary and understand meaning
- Recognize consonants and produce sounds
- Write beginning and ending sounds
- Recognize and produce short vowels and their sounds (a, e, i, o, u)
- Recognize and produce long vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u)
- Identify and use word families
- Break words into syllables auditorally
- Make predictions
- Use graphophonemics (visual) – use beginning and ending letters/sounds
- Locate known/unknown words
- Ask questions
- Relate written word to personal experiences
- Identify story elements for character and setting
- Retell sequence of events verbally
- Select stories and books for personal interests
- Demonstrate appropriate listening behavior (have eye contact with speaker, use good posture, don’t create distractions)
- Sequence three step events
- Participate in discussions to explain/clarify ideas, experiences, opinions, give reasons and explain a process
- Restate oral directions or instructions
- Tell/retell a story
- Understand directionality concepts: above, below, first, and last
- Follow left-to-right sequence
- Print capital and lower case letters and numbers legibly in context using correct letter formation and spacing
- Print first and last name
- Spell a given list of core high frequency words in isolation and in context
- Identify and use phonetic and structural analysis strategies to spell words
- Spell designated word families
- Identify types of sentences: questions and statements
- Capitalize: names, beginning of a sentence, and pronoun I
- Correctly use punctuation: end of a sentence
- Write in response to oral and printed text
- Introduce steps in the writing process: pre-write, draft, proofread/edit
- Write across the curriculum using various styles: charts, lists, friendly letters, journals, class book story writing, narratives
First Grade Promotional Criteria
Students will be expected to successfully perform the following math skills to be ready for second grade:
- Use concrete, pictorial, and symbolic representations of whole numbers 1-100 and the fractional numbers of ½ and ¼
- Use and understand properties of the whole number system at the concrete and pictorial level (fact families or how many ways to make a given number)
- Continue to use concepts of comparing, sequencing, and ordering with more than, less than, equal, before, and after
- Continue correct formation or numerals 0-9
- Continue rote counting to 100
- Continue to understand the concept of ordinal numbers up to 10th
- Understand the whole number operations of addition and subtraction
- Measure using standard units (US and metric)
- Directly measures: length (inches) and time (hour)
- Identify pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and their values
- Create and sort geometric shapes (rectangle, triangle, circle, square) using attributes of shape and size
- Describe data at the concrete and pictorial level
- Recognize/create/extend patterns of objects and numbers
- Solve simple equations at the concrete and pictorial levels (picture of 5 birds, 3 flew away, how many are left?)
- Collect data
- Perform appropriate computations for problem solving
- Begin to express ideas using physical or pictorial models (tables, charts, graphs)
- Continue to classify items by similarities and differences
- Continue to use descriptors such as shortest and longest, more, fewer, same, and different
- Continue to sequence objects 1-3
