California State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 1

CA.1.0. Reading: Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development: Students understand the basic features of reading. They select letter patterns and know how to translate them into spoken language by using phonics, syllabication, and word parts. They apply this knowledge to achieve fluent oral and silent reading.

1.1. Concepts About Print: Match oral words to printed words. 292
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1.2. Concepts About Print: Identify the title and author of a reading selection. 14
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1.3. Concepts About Print: Identify letters, words, and sentences. 121
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1.4. Phonemic Awareness: Distinguish initial, medial, and final sounds in single-syllable words. 147
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1.5. Phonemic Awareness: Distinguish long- and short-vowel sounds in orally stated single-syllable words (e.g., bit/bite). 61
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1.6. Phonemic Awareness: Create and state a series of rhyming words, including consonant blends. 44
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1.7. Phonemic Awareness: Add, delete, or change target sounds to change words (e.g., change cow to how; pan to an). 64
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1.8. Phonemic Awareness: Blend two to four phonemes into recognizable words (e.g., /c/a/t/ = cat; /f/l/a/t/ = flat). 235
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1.9. Phonemic Awareness: Segment single syllable words into their components (e.g., /c/a/t/ = cat; /s/p/l/a/t/ =splat; /r/i/ch/ = rich). 202
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1.10. Decoding and Word Recognition: Generate the sounds from all the letters and letter patterns, including consonant blends and long- and short-vowel patterns (i.e., phonograms), and blend those sounds into recognizable words. 183
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1.11. Decoding and Word Recognition: Read common, irregular sight words (e.g., the, have, said, come, give, of). 165
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1.12. Decoding and Word Recognition: Use knowledge of vowel digraphs and r-controlled letter-sound associations to read words. 68
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1.13. Decoding and Word Recognition: Read compound words and contractions. 27
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1.14. Decoding and Word Recognition: Read inflectional forms (e.g., -s, -ed, -ing) and root words (e.g., look, looked, looking). 13
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1.15. Decoding and Word Recognition: Read common word families (e.g., -ite, -ate). 79
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1.16. Decoding and Word Recognition: Read aloud with fluency in a manner that sounds like natural speech. 124
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1.17. Vocabulary and Concept Development: Classify grade-appropriate categories of words (e.g., concrete collections of animals, foods, toys). 23
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CA.2.0. Reading: Reading Comprehension: Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They draw upon a variety of comprehension strategies as needed (e.g., generating and responding to essential questions, making predictions, comparing information from several sources).

2.1. Structural Features of Informational Materials: Identify text that uses sequence or other logical order. 33
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2.2. Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Respond to who, what, when, where, and how questions. 5
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2.3. Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Follow one-step written instructions. 18
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2.4. Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Use context to resolve ambiguities about word and sentence meanings. 129
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2.5. Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text by identifying key words (i.e., signpost words). 63
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2.6. Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Relate prior knowledge to textual information. 24
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2.7. Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Retell the central ideas of simple expository or narrative passages. 40
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CA.3.0. Reading: Literary Response and Analysis: Students read and respond to a wide variety of significant works of children's literature. They distinguish between the structural features of the text and the literary terms or elements (e.g., theme, plot, setting, characters).

3.1. Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Identify and describe the elements of plot, setting, and character(s) in a story, as well as the story's beginning, middle, and ending. 30
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3.2. Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Describe the roles of authors and illustrators and their contributions to print materials. 23
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3.3. Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Recollect, talk, and write about books read during the school year. 574
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