Arkansas State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 1

AR.1. Oral and Visual Communication: Speaking: Students shall demonstrate effective oral communication skills to express ideas and to present information.

OV.1.1.1. Speaking vocabulary: Use more descriptive and precise vocabulary to name and describe known items.

OV.1.1.2. Speaking vocabulary: Use singular and plural nouns appropriately in speech .

OV.1.1.3. Speaking behaviors: Focus on audience (i.e., eye contact).

OV.1.1.4. Speaking behaviors: Use voice level, phrasing, and intonation to speak clearly and audibly.

OV.1.1.5. Speaking behaviors: Follow etiquette for conversation.

OV.1.1.6. Speaking behaviors: Make appropriate comments and suggestions and ask clarifying questions about the ideas and work of others.

OV.1.1.7. Speaking to share understanding of information: Support spoken ideas and opinions with examples.

OV.1.1.8. Speaking to share understanding of information: Give simple two-step directions.

OV.1.1.9. Speaking to share understanding of information: Participate in discussions about a variety of topics, including classroom events.

OV.1.1.10. Speaking for literary response and expression: Tell and retell stories providing the characters, setting, problem, events, and resolution in logical order, with or without prompts.

OV.1.1.11. Speaking for literary response and expression: Participate in a variety of speaking activities, including choral reading .

OV.1.1.12. Speaking for critical analysis and evaluation: Ask for clarification and explanation of words and ideas .

OV.1.1.13. Speaking for critical analysis and evaluation: Accept contributions of teacher or group to improve speaking performance.

AR.2. Oral and Visual Communication: Listening: Students shall demonstrate effective listening skills in formal and informal settings to facilitate communication.

OV.2.1.1. Listening for information and understanding: Demonstrate active listening behaviors (i.e., taking turns to speak).

OV.2.1.2. Listening for information and understanding: Listen and identify topic.

OV.2.1.3. Listening for information and understanding: Follow two-step oral directions.

OV.2.1.4. Listening and responding to literature: Listen to literature and respond appropriately, including predicting, connecting, questioning, and discussing the text .

OV.2.1.5. Listening for critical analysis and evaluation: Listen for specific information in order to respond with appropriate feedback.

OV.2.1.6. Listening for critical analysis and evaluation: Show interest in and respond appropriately to verbal and musical performances.

AR.3. Oral and Visual Communication: Media Literacy: Students shall demonstrate knowledge and understanding of media as a mode of communication.

OV.3.1.1. Utilizing media for information and understanding: Listen to and view a variety of media to understand and extend learning .

OV.3.1.2. Utilizing media for information and understanding: Explore media for ideas and relationships and for cultural awareness.

OV.3.1.3. Utilizing media for personal response and expression: Respond to media in a variety of ways (i.e., art, writing, and movement).

OV.3.1.4. Utilizing media for critical analysis and evaluation: Identify differences in a variety of media presentations .

AR.4. Writing: Process: Students shall employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately.

W.4.1.1. Prewriting: Create and maintain a topic list .

W.4.1.2. Prewriting: Focus on one topic.

W.4.1.3. Prewriting: Apply strategies to move from oral language to written language (i.e., orally compose message and verbally rehearse, etc.).

W.4.1.4. Prewriting: Develop one topic.

W.4.1.5. Prewriting: Use a story frame or paragraph frame to organize writing .

W.4.1.6. Prewriting: Participate in teacher led prewriting activities to promote organization of writing (i.e., story maps, webbing, and graphic organizers).

W.4.1.7. Drafting: Use prewriting activities to create a draft.

W.4.1.8. Drafting: Elaborate to expand an idea.

W.4.1.9. Drafting: Include an introductory sentence and a sense of closure.

W.4.1.10. Drafting: Use a core of high frequency words fluently.

W.4.1.11. Drafting: Use strategies for applying phonemic awareness and phonics knowledge (i.e., slowly articulate or segment words in order to hear sounds and record corresponding letters, break words at onset and rime to record corresponding letter patterns, etc.).

W.4.1.12. Revising: Reread and revise for meaning based on teacher conference.

W.4.1.13. Revising: Elaborate message when prompted .

W.4.1.14. Editing: Edit for complete sentences, appropriate capitalization, punctuation, and appropriate spelling .

W.4.1.15. Editing: Utilize available resources to edit personal writing (i.e., editing checklist, personal dictionary, word wall, etc.) .

W.4.1.16. Publishing: Prepare pieces for publication (i.e., illustrations, rewriting or typing, and page break, etc.) .

W.4.1.17. Publishing: Share writing with others.

W.4.1.18. Publishing: Polish approximately ten pieces throughout the year (i.e., thank you notes, classroom book, posters, stories, and poems, etc.).

W.4.1.19. Publishing: Use available technology for publishing .

W.4.1.20. Publishing: Select pieces for a writing portfolio.

AR.5. Writing: Purposes, Topics, Forms and Audiences: Students shall demonstrate competency in writing for a variety of purposes, topics and audiences employing a wide range of forms.

W.5.1.1. Purposes and Audiences: Write for peers.

W.5.1.2. Purposes and Audiences: Determine purpose for writing by explaining why some text forms may be more appropriate than others .

W.5.1.3. Topics and Forms: Write daily .

W.5.1.4. Topics and Forms: Write instructions with appropriate sequence.

W.5.1.5. Topics and Forms: Write brief expository descriptions of a real object, person, place, or event using some detail.

W.5.1.6. Topics and Forms: Write thank you notes, invitations, and personal narratives.

W.5.1.7. Topics and Forms: Compose labels, captions, events, and/or stories in response to a theme or subject area .

W.5.1.8. Topics and Forms: Write couplets and acrostics.

AR.6. Writing: Conventions: Students shall apply knowledge of Standard English conventions in written work.

W.6.1.1. Sentence Formation: Use basic sentence structure for simple sentences.

W.6.1.2. Sentence Formation: Vary sentence beginnings .

W.6.1.3. Usage: Use subject and verb agreement in simple sentences.

AR.7. Writing: Craftsmanship: Students shall develop personal style and voice as they approach the craftsmanship of writing.

W.7.1.1. Purposefully shaping and controlling language: Include some concrete details when writing.

W.7.1.2. Purposefully shaping and controlling language: Imitate narrative elements and predictable language patterns derived from known texts.

W.7.1.3. Purposefully shaping and controlling language: Use adjectives when writing about people, places, things, and events.

W.7.1.4. Purposefully shaping and controlling language: Produce writing that uses the full range of words in their speaking vocabulary.

W.7.1.5. Purposefully shaping and controlling language: Select more precise words when prompted.

W.7.1.6. Purposefully shaping and controlling language: Use newly learned words in writing.

W.7.1.7. Purposefully shaping and controlling language: Examine written work with teacher guidance to determine progress in writing and work habits.

AR.8. Reading: Foundations of Reading: Students shall apply concepts of print, acquire knowledge of spoken words and understand the relationship of speech to print as they develop a foundation for literacy.

R.8.1.1. Utilizing concepts about print: Distinguish between letters, words and sentences.

R.8.1.2. Utilizing concepts about print: Apply knowledge of letter, word, sentence and paragraph.

R.8.1.3. Utilizing concepts about print: Recognize that there are correct spellings for words.

R.8.1.4. Utilizing concepts about print: Identify the author and title of a book.

R.8.1.5. Developing phonological awareness: Blend phonemes fluently.

R.8.1.6. Developing phonological awareness: Segment phonemes fluently (minimum 40 phonemes per minute) .

R.8.1.7. Developing phonological awareness: Delete phonemes to create new words.

R.8.1.8. Developing phonological awareness: Add phonemes to existing words to create new words.

R.8.1.9. Developing phonological awareness: Substitute one phoneme for another to make new words.

AR.9. Reading: Comprehension: Students shall apply a variety of strategies to read and comprehend printed material.

R.9.1.1. Using prior knowledge to make meaning: Access appropriate prior knowledge to enhance and monitor the understanding of the text.

R.9.1.2. Using connections to make meaning: Make connections from text to self during independent reading.

R.9.1.3. Using connections to make meaning: Make connections from text to text during independent reading.

R.9.1.4. Using visualization to make meaning: Form a mental picture from text read independently, including story elements or descriptions.

R.9.1.5. Using questioning and monitoring to make meaning: Ask and answer questions before, during, and after the reading, including who, what, when, where, why and how .

R.9.1.6. Using questioning and monitoring to make meaning: Locate information within the text to answer literal questions.

R.9.1.7. Using questioning and monitoring to make meaning: Ask questions that seek elaboration and justification .

R.9.1.8. Using questioning and monitoring to make meaning: Know when the text doesn't make sense and search for clarification.

R.9.1.9. Using inferences to make meaning: Make and explain inferences from text, such as making predictions and drawing conclusions.

R.9.1.10. Determining importance to make meaning: Retell stories identifying characters, setting, events, problem, and resolution.

R.9.1.11. Determining importance to make meaning: Create a main idea statement about a selection.

R.9.1.12. Determining importance to make meaning: Refer explicitly to parts of the text when presenting or defending a claim.

R.9.1.13. Summarizing and synthesizing for meaning: Retell a story by including story elements.

R.9.1.14. Summarizing and synthesizing for meaning: Create art work and appropriate written responses that show comprehension of a text.

AR.10. Reading: Variety of texts: Students shall read, examine, and respond to a wide range of text for a variety of purposes.

R.10.1.1. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Read daily.

R.10.1.2. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Distinguish fantasy from realistic text.

R.10.1.3. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction.

R.10.1.4. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Read and compare multiple books by the same author.

R.10.1.5. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Read during independent reading time.

R.10.1.6. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Read and reread with others through shared, partner, and choral reading.

R.10.1.7. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Talk about several books on the same theme.

R.10.1.8. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Respond to a wide variety of texts by contributing to a reading journal which demonstrates appropriate comprehension skills, including picture and written responses, reading log, and interest list.

R.10.1.9. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Self-select materials on independent reading level based on personal interest.

R.10.1.10. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Use graphic organizers, including lists, story frames, and T-charts, to make meaning of the reading selection.

R.10.1.11. Reading a variety of informational materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Read a variety of simple informational books for specific information.

R.10.1.12. Reading a variety of informational materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Sequence simple actions to make meaning.

R.10.1.13. Reading a variety of informational materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Read a variety of stories, plays, and predictable books.

R.10.1.14. Reading a variety of informational materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Identify story elements in simple stories.

R.10.1.15. Reading a variety of informational materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Create innovations from predictable texts.

R.10.1.16. Reading a variety of poetry for enjoyment and critical analysis: Read simple poems, including couplets and acrostics.

R.10.1.17. Reading a variety of poetry for enjoyment and critical analysis: Discuss simple poetry to determine meaning.

R.10.1.18. Reading a variety of poetry for enjoyment and critical analysis: Analyze poetry to identify the characteristics of simple poems, including acrostics.

R.10.1.19. Reading a variety of practical materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Use various forms of functional print, including lunch menus and learning charts, to accomplish tasks.

R.10.1.20. Reading a variety of practical materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Understand the function of a dictionary .

R.10.1.21. Reading a variety of practical materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Use knowledge of alphabetical order by first letter when using a simple reference material.

R.10.1.22. Reading a variety of practical materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Use resources, including a table of contents, to enhance reading.

AR.11. Reading: Vocabulary, Word Study, and Fluency: Students shall acquire and apply skills in vocabulary development and word analysis to be able to read fluently.

R.11.1.1. Meaning-based word recognition: Use knowledge of context clues to make sense of new words .

R.11.1.2. Meaning-based word recognition: Determine word meanings by applying knowledge of compound words, regular plurals, common contractions, inflectional endings, and singular possessive nouns .

R.11.1.3. Meaning-based word recognition: Refine the meanings of words through repeated encounters.

R.11.1.4. Spelling-sound word recognition (phonics): Know the order of the letters in the alphabet.

R.11.1.5. Spelling-sound word recognition (phonics): Decode single syllable words using initial and final consonants, short vowel patterns, onsets and rimes, blends and digraphs in continuous text.

R.11.1.6. Sight word recognition: Read fluently approximately 150 high frequency words encountered during reading.

R.11.1.7. Word Study and vocabulary: Sort and classify words by function or concept.

R.11.1.8. Word Study and vocabulary: Discuss the meaning of new words encountered in independent and assisted reading.

R.11.1.9. Word Study and vocabulary: Experiment with language, including riddles and nonsense words and using them in speaking, reading, and writing.

R.11.1.10. Accuracy of reading: Read grade level texts with accuracy of 90% or above .

R.11.1.11. Accuracy of reading: Demonstrate automaticity of letter sounds and phonic patterns during reading.

R.11.1.12. Accuracy of reading: Monitor, cross check, and self correct as needed to make meaning of the text during reading.

R.11.1.13. Reading with fluency and expression: Read grade level text fluently at a minimum of 40 words per minute.

R.11.1.14. Reading with fluency and expression: Read familiar grade level texts using appropriate rhythm, pace, phrasing, punctuation, and intonation.

AR.12. Inquiring/Researching: Researching/Inquiry Process: Students shall engage in inquiry and research to address questions, to make judgments about credibility, and to communicate findings in ways that suit the purpose and audience.

IR.12.1.1. Accessing information: Gather and collect information about a topic.

IR.12.1.2. Accessing information: Use alphabetical order to the first letter to access information .

IR.12.1.3. Accessing information: Use parts of a book to locate information, including table of contents.

IR.12.1.4. Accessing information: Access information from simple charts, graphs, and calendars.

IR.12.1.5. Interpreting Information: Stay on topic.