South Carolina State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 1

SC.1-1. Reading - Understanding and Using Literary Texts: The student will read and comprehend a variety of literary texts in print and nonprint formats.

1-1.1. Summarize the main idea and supporting evidence in literary text during classroom discussion.

1-1.2. Use pictures and words to make and revise predictions about a given literary text.

1-1.3. Analyze a narrative text to determine the narrator.

1-1.4. Find an example of sound devices (including onomatopoeia and alliteration) in texts read aloud.

1-1.5. Generate a retelling that identifies the characters and the setting in a story and relates the important events in sequential order.

1-1.6. Explain how elements of author's craft (for example, word choice) affect the meaning of a given literary text.

1-1.7. Use relevant details in summarizing stories read aloud.

1-1.8. Create responses to literary texts through a variety of methods (for example, writing, creative dramatics, and the visual and performing arts).

1-1.9. Classify a text as either fiction or nonfiction.

1-1.10. Explain cause-and-effect relationships presented in literary text.

1-1.11. Read independently for extended periods of time for pleasure.

SC.1-2. Reading - Understanding and Using Informational Texts: The student will read and comprehend a variety of informational texts in print and nonprint formats.

1-2.1. Summarize the central idea and supporting evidence in an informational text during classroom discussion.

1-2.2. Analyze informational texts to draw conclusions and make inferences during classroom discussions.

1-2.3. Distinguish between facts and opinions.

1-2.4. Create responses to informational texts through a variety of methods (for example, drawings, written works, and oral presentations).

1-2.5. Understand that headings, subheadings, and print styles (for example, italics, bold, larger type) provide information to the reader.

1-2.6. Use graphic features (for example, illustrations, graphs, charts, and maps) as sources of information.

1-2.7. Use functional text features (including tables of contents).

1-2.8. Explain cause-and-effect relationships presented in informational texts.

1-2.9. Read independently for extended periods of time to gain information.

SC.1-3. Reading - Learning to Read: The student will learn to read by applying appropriate skills and strategies.

1-3.1. Oral Language Acquisition and Vocabulary Development: Use pictures, context, and letter-sound relationships to read unfamiliar words.

1-3.2. Oral Language Acquisition and Vocabulary Development: Identify base words and their inflectional endings (including -s, -es, -ing, -ed, -er, and -est).

1-3.3. Oral Language Acquisition and Vocabulary Development: Use vocabulary acquired from a variety of sources (including conversations, texts read aloud, and the media).

1-3.4. Oral Language Acquisition and Vocabulary Development: Recognize high-frequency words encountered in texts.

1-3.5. Oral Language Acquisition and Vocabulary Development: Understand the relationship between two or more words (including synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms).

1-3.6. Oral Language Acquisition and Vocabulary Development: Use structural analysis to determine the meaning of compound words and contractions.

1-3.7. Fluency: Use appropriate rate, word automaticity, phrasing, intonation, and expression to read fluently.

1-3.8. Fluency: Use appropriate voice level and intonation when speaking and reading aloud.

1-3.9. Phonemic Awareness: Create rhyming words in response to an oral prompt.

1-3.10. Phonemic Awareness: Create words by orally adding, deleting, or changing sounds.

1-3.11. Phonemic Awareness: Use blending to generate words orally.

1-3.12. Phonics: Use onsets and rimes to decode and generate words.

1-3.13. Phonics: Use knowledge of letter names and their corresponding sounds to spell words independently.

1-3.14. Phonics: Organize a series of words by alphabetizing to the first letter.

1-3.15. Phonics: Identify beginning, middle, and ending sounds in single-syllable words.

1-3.16. Phonics: Classify words by categories (for example, beginning and ending sounds).

1-3.17. Phonics: Use blending to read.

1-3.18. Phonics: Spell three-and four-letter short-vowel words and high-frequency words correctly.

1-3.19. Phonics: Use known words to spell new words.

1-3.20. Oral Language Acquisition and Comprehension Development: Use pictures and words to construct meaning.

1-3.21. Oral Language Acquisition and Comprehension Development: Recognize environmental print (for example, signs in the school, road signs, restaurant and store signs, and logos).

1-3.22. Concepts about Print: Know the parts of a book (including the front and back covers, the title, and the names of the author and the illustrator).

1-3.23. Concepts about Print: Carry out left-to-right, top-to-bottom, and return-sweep directionality on the printed page.

1-3.24. Concepts about Print: Distinguish among letters, words, and sentences.

SC.1-4. Writing - Developing Written Communications: The student will create written work that has a clear focus, sufficient detail, coherent organization, effective use of voice, and correct use of the conventions of written Standard American English.

1-4.1. Generate ideas for writing by using techniques (for example, participating in conversations and looking at pictures).

1-4.2. Use simple sentences in writing.

1-4.3. Use pictures, letters, or words to tell a story from beginning to end.

1-4.4. Use grammatical conventions of written Standard American English, including

1-4.4.a. Personal pronouns,

1-4.4.b. Common and proper nouns,

1-4.4.c. Singular and plural nouns, and

1-4.4.d. Conjunctions (and, but, or).

1-4.5. Revise for word choice and simple sentence structure in written works.

1-4.6. Edit for the correct use of written Standard American English, including

1-4.6.a. Capitalization: first word of a sentence, names of people, and pronoun i;

1-4.6.b. Punctuation: periods, exclamation points, and question marks; and

1-4.6.c. Spelling: high-frequency words and three-and four-letter short-vowel words.

1-4.7. Use appropriate spacing between words.

1-4.8. Use appropriate word formation by writing from left to right the letters that spell a word.

1-4.9. Identify sounds orally and in writing by segmenting words.

SC.1-5. Writing - Producing Written Communications in a Variety of Forms: The student will write for a variety of purposes and audiences.

1-5.1. Create written communications (for example, thank you notes) for a specific audience.

1-5.2. Create narratives (for example, stories and journal entries) about people, places, actions, or things.

1-5.3. Create written pieces that describe personal experiences, people, places, or things and that use words that appeal to the senses.

1-5.4. Create written pieces (for example, simple rhymes and poems) to entertain others.

SC.1-6. Researching - Applying the Skills of Inquiry and Oral Communication: The student will access and use information from a variety of sources.

1-6.1. Generate how and why questions about a topic of interest.

1-6.2. Use print sources of information (for example, books, newspapers, pictures, charts, and graphs) and nonprint sources to access information.

1-6.3. Create categories (for example, plants and animals) to classify information.

1-6.4. Use the internet with the aid of a teacher.

1-6.5. Use complete sentences when orally presenting information.

1-6.6. Follow one-and two-step oral directions.