First Grade Skills

Listed below are some of the skills your first grade student will work on and hopefully master by the end of 1st grade.

Reading Skills:

Identify the Alphabet.
Reproduces letter sounds. Reads color words: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, and white.
Reads days of the week.
Reads months of the year.
Reads sight vocabulary words.
Reads independently. Masters basic spelling words. Uses reading strategies correctly as they come to unknown words (picture clues, context, phonetic blending, etc.).

Reading Strategies for Parents.

Writing Skills:

Writes more than one sentence about a topic using correctly formed sentences.

Uses correct punctuation (period, question mark, and exclamation mark) at the end of a sentence.

Capital letters are used at the beginning of each sentence. Proper nouns are capitalized.

Spacing is used to separate words in a sentence. One child size finger space between words allows sufficient spacing.

Appropriate spelling for "known words" (Word Wall Words: Spelling Words and Sight Words.

Developmental spelling (sounding out and writing "heard" letter sounds) for "new" word usage.

Writing Tips for Parents

Math Skills

Identifies 1-20 out of order.
Identifies 1-100 or more
Rote counts to 100 or more.
Writes numbers from 1-100
Solves addition sums to 10.
Subtraction remainders to 9.
Sequences numbers to 10.
Copies a pattern.
Identifies geometric shaped.
Demonstrates measurement.
Identifies penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar bill.
Tells time on the hour and half hour.
Counts by 2's, 5's, 10's to 100.
Finds a date on a calendar.
Finds the place value of a digit.
Counts and trades coins.
Reads and interprets pictographs, tables, and tally charts.
Math Tips for Parents