Indiana State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 1

IN.1. Reading: Word Recognition, Fluency, and Vocabulary Development: Students understand the basic features of words. They see letter patterns and know how to translate them into spoken language by using phonics (an understanding of the different letters that make different sounds), syllables, and word parts (-s, -ed, -ing).

1.1.1. Concepts About Print: Match oral words to printed words.

1.1.2. Concepts About Print: Identify letters, words, and sentences.

1.1.3. Concepts About Print: Recognize that sentences start with capital letters and end with punctuation, such as periods, question marks, and exclamation points.

1.1.4. Phonemic Awareness: Distinguish beginning, middle, and ending sounds in single-syllable words (words with only one vowel sound).

1.1.5. Phonemic Awareness: Recognize different vowel sounds in orally stated single-syllable words.

1.1.6. Phonemic Awareness: Recognize that vowels' sounds can be represented by different letters.

1.1.7. Phonemic Awareness: Create and state a series of rhyming words.

1.1.8. Phonemic Awareness: Add, delete, or change sounds to change words.

1.1.9. Phonemic Awareness: Blend two to four phonemes (sounds) into recognizable words.

1.1.10. Decoding and Word Recognition: Generate the sounds from all the letters and from a variety of letter patterns, including consonant blends and long- and short-vowel patterns (a, e, i, o, u), and blend those sounds into recognizable words.

1.1.19. Decoding and Word Recognition: Identify important signs and symbols, such as stop signs, school crossing signs, or restroom symbols, from the colors, shapes, logos, and letters on the signs or symbols.

1.1.11. Decoding and Word Recognition: Read common sight words (words that are often seen and heard).

1.1.12. Decoding and Word Recognition: Use phonic and context clues as self-correction strategies when reading.

1.1.13. Decoding and Word Recognition: Read words by using knowledge of vowel digraphs (two vowels that make one sound such as the ea in eat) and knowledge of how vowel sounds change when followed by the letter r (such as the ea in the word ear).

1.1.14. Decoding and Word Recognition: Read common word patterns (-ite, -ate).

1.1.15 Decoding and Word Recognition: Read aloud smoothly and easily in familiar text.

1.1.16. Vocabulary and Concept Development: Read and understand simple compound words (birthday, anything) and contractions (isn't, aren't, can't, won't).

1.1.17. Vocabulary and Concept Development: Read and understand root words (look) and their inflectional forms (looks, looked, looking).

1.1.18. Vocabulary and Concept Development: Classify categories of words.

IN.2. Reading: Comprehension and Analysis of Nonfiction and Informational Text: Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material.

1.2.1. Structural Features of Informational Materials: Identify the title, author, illustrator, and table of contents of a reading selection.

1.2.2. Structural Features of Informational Materials: Identify text that uses sequence or other logical order.

1.2.3. Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Nonfiction and Informational Text: Respond to who, what, when, where, why, and how questions and recognize the main idea of what is read.

1.2.4. Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Nonfiction and Informational Text: Follow one-step written instructions.

1.2.5. Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Nonfiction and Informational Text: Use context (the meaning of the surrounding text) to understand word and sentence meanings.

1.2.6. Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Nonfiction and Informational Text: Draw conclusions or confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text by identifying key words (signal words that alert the reader to a sequence of events, such as before, first, during, while, as, at the same time, after, then, next, at last, finally, now, when or cause and effect, such as because, since, therefore, so).

1.2.7. Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Nonfiction and Informational Text: Relate prior knowledge to what is read.

IN.3. Reading: Comprehension and Analysis of Literary Text: Students read and respond to a wide variety of children's literature.

1.3.1. Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Literary Text: Identify and describe the plot, setting, and character(s) in a story. Retell a story's beginning, middle, and ending.

1.3.2. Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Literary Text: Describe the roles of authors and illustrators.

1.3.3. Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Literary Text: Confirm predictions about what will happen next in a story.

1.3.4. Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Literary Text: Distinguish fantasy from reality.

1.3.5. Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Literary Text: Understand what is read by responding to questions (who, what, when, where, why, how).

IN.4. Writing: Processes and Features: Students discuss ideas for group stories and other writing. Students write clear sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea.

1.4.1. Organization and Focus: Discuss ideas and select a focus for group stories or other writing.

1.4.2. Organization and Focus: Use various organizational strategies to plan writing.

1.4.3. Evaluation and Revision: Revise writing for others to read.

1.4.4. Research Process and Technology: Begin asking questions to guide topic selection and ask how and why questions about a topic of interest.

1.4.5. Research Process and Technology: Identify a variety of sources of information (books, online sources, pictures, charts, tables of contents, diagrams) and document the sources (titles)

1.4.6. Research Process and Technology: Organize and classify information by constructing categories on the basis of observation.

IN.5. Writing: Applications (Different Types of Writing and Their Characteristics): At Grade 1 begin to write compositions that describe and explain familiar objects, events, and experiences. Students use their understanding of the sounds of words to write simple rhymes.

1.5.1. Writing Processes and Features: Write brief narratives (stories) describing an experience.

1.5.2. Writing Processes and Features: Write brief expository (informational) descriptions of a real object, person, place, or event, using sensory details.

1.5.3. Writing Processes and Features: Write simple rhymes.

1.5.4. Writing Processes and Features: Use descriptive words when writing.

1.5.5. Writing Processes and Features: Write for different purposes and to a specific audience or person.

IN.6. Writing: English Language Conventions: Students write using Standard English conventions appropriate to this grade level.

1.6.1. Handwriting: Print legibly and space letters, words, and sentences appropriately.

1.6.2. Sentence Structure: Write in complete sentences.

1.6.3. Grammar: Identify and correctly use singular and plural nouns (dog/dogs).

1.6.4. Grammar: Identify and correctly write contractions (isn't, aren't, can't).

1.6.5. Grammar: Identify and correctly write possessive nouns (cat's meow, girls' dresses) and possessive pronouns (my/mine, his/hers).

1.6.6. Punctuation: Correctly use periods (I am five.), exclamation points (Help!), and question marks (How old are you?) at the end of sentences.

1.6.7. Capitalization: Capitalize the first word of a sentence, names of people, and the pronoun I.

1.6.8. Spelling: Spell correctly three- and four-letter words (can, will) and grade-level-appropriate sight words (red, fish).

IN.7. Listening and Speaking: Skills, Strategies, and Applications: Students listen critically and respond appropriately to oral communication.

1.7.1. Comprehension: Listen attentively.

1.7.2. Comprehension: Ask questions for clarification and understanding.

1.7.3. Comprehension: Give, restate, and follow simple two-step directions.

1.7.4. Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication: Stay on the topic when speaking.

1.7.5. Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication: Use descriptive words when speaking about people, places, things, and events.

1.7.6. Speaking Applications: Recite poems, rhymes, songs, and stories.

1.7.7. Speaking Applications: Retell stories using basic story grammar and relating the sequence of story events by answering who, what, when, where, why, and how questions.

1.7.8. Speaking Applications: Relate an important life event or personal experience in a simple sequence.

1.7.9. Speaking Applications: Provide descriptions with careful attention to sensory detail.

1.7.10. Speaking Applications: Use visual aids, such as pictures and objects, to present oral information.