Rhode Island State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 1
RI.R-1-1. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Word Identification Skills and Strategies: Applies word identification and decoding strategies (leading to automaticity) by:
R-1-1.1. Sounding out regularly spelled (decodable) one-syllable or two-syllable words using letter-sound correspondence knowledge (Local)
R-1-1.2. Reading regularly spelled one or two-syllable words using knowledge of sounds and letter patterns (including common endings - s, ed, ly, ing) (Local)
R-1-1.3. Reading grade-level appropriate words (in connected text) (Local)
R-1-1.4. Reading grade appropriate, high-frequency words (that include irregularly spelled words - said; contractions - I'm) (Local)
R-1-1.5. No GLE at this grade level.
R-1-1.6. No GLE at this grade level.
RI.R-1-2. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Vocabulary: Vocabulary Strategies: Students identify the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary by:
R-1-2.1. Using strategies to unlock meaning (e.g., activating prior knowledge, using cues, using context clues, or asking questions during read-alouds or text reading) (Local)
RI.R-1-3. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Vocabulary: Breadth of Vocabulary: Shows breadth of vocabulary knowledge, demonstrating understanding of word meanings or relationships by:
R-1-3.1. Identifying synonyms and antonyms to connect new words to known words (Local)
R-1-3.2. Selecting appropriate words to use in context (Local)
R-1-3.3. Describing words in terms of categories, (e.g., A mallard is a kind of duck), functions (e.g., Scissors are used for cutting), or features (e.g., A rectangle has four sides.) (Local)
RI.R-1-4. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Literary Texts: Initial Understanding of literary Texts: All students need ongoing opportunities to apply and practice reading strategies with many different types of literary texts. Recognizing a variety of literary texts and their characteristics will help students in meeting grade level expectations described in the NECAP GLEs. Demonstrate initial understanding of elements of literary texts (including text read aloud, reading independently, or in a guided manner) by:
R-1-4.1. Identifying characters or setting in a story (Local)
R-1-4.2a. Responding to simple questions about a book's content (e.g., Where did Sylvester go?) (Local)
R-1-4.2b. Retelling the beginning, middle, and end of a story (Local)
R-1-4.3. Generating questions before, during, and after reading (Local)
R-1-4.4. Distinguishing between literary and informational texts (Local)
R-1-4.5. Identifying literary devices as appropriate to genre: rhyme, repeated language (e.g., 'teeny- tiny') (Local)
RI.R-1-5. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Literary Texts: Analysis and Interpretation of Literary Texts, Citing Evidence: All students need ongoing opportunities to apply and practice reading strategies with many different types of literary texts. Recognizing a variety of literary texts and their characteristics will help students in meeting grade level expectations described in the NECAP GLEs. Analyze and interpret elements of literary texts read aloud or read independently, citing evidence where appropriate by:
R-1-5.1. Making predictions about what might happen next, and telling why the prediction was made (Local)
R-1-5.2. Identifying physical characteristics, personality traits, or possible motives of main characters (Local)
R-1-5.3. Making basic inferences about the text (Local)
R-1-5.4. Not assessed at this grade level.
R-1-5.5. Not assessed at this grade level.
R-1-5.6. Not assessed at this grade level.
R-1-5.7. Not assessed at this grade level.
RI.R-1-7. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Informational Texts: Initial Understanding of Informational Text: All students need ongoing opportunities to apply and practice reading strategies with many different types of informational texts (expository and practical texts). Recognizing a variety of informational texts and their characteristics will help students in meeting grade level expectations described in the NECAP GLEs. Demonstrate initial understanding of informational texts (expository and practical texts) by:
R-1-7.1. Obtaining information, using text features such as title and illustration (Local)
R-1-7.2. Using explicitly stated information to answer questions (Local)
R-1-7.3. Not assessed at this grade level.
R-1-7.4. Generating questions before, during, and after reading (Local)
R-1-7.5. Distinguishing between literary and informational texts (Local)
RI.R-1-8. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Informational Texts: Analysis and Interpretation of informational Texts, Citing Evidence: All students need ongoing opportunities to apply and practice reading strategies with many different types of informational texts (expository and practical texts). Recognizing a variety of informational texts and their characteristics will help students in meeting grade level expectations described in the NECAP GLEs. Analyze and interpret informational text read aloud or independently, citing evidence as appropriate by:
R-1-8.1. Telling what was learned (Local)
R-1-8.2. Identifying the topic of the text or explaining the title (Local)
R-1-8.3. Making basic inferences or drawing basic conclusions (Local)
R-1-8.4. Identifying facts presented in text (Local)
R-1-8.5. Subsumed under R-1-8.3.
RI.R-1-9. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Early Reading Strategies: Phonemic Awareness and Phonological Knowledge: All students need ongoing opportunities to apply and practice reading strategies with many different types of texts. Demonstrates phonemic awareness and applies phonological knowledge and skills by:
R-1-9.1. Blending and segmenting syllables and onset-rimes (e.g., cup-cake, s-at) (Local)
R-1-9.2. Blending and segmenting phonemes in one syllable words (e.g., f-i-sh, r-u-n) (Local)
R-1-9.3. Isolating phonemes in single syllable words (e.g., 'tell me the first sound in 'mop';' 'tell me the last sound in 'mop,'' 'tell me the middle sound in 'mop.'') (Local)
R-1-9.4. Deleting phonemes in one-syllable words ('what is 'crust' without the 'c'?') (Local)
R-1-9.5. Producing pairs of rhyming words (Local)
R-1-9.6. Counting syllables in 1 to 4-syllable words (Local)
RI.R-1-10. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Early Reading Strategies: Concepts of Print: All students need ongoing opportunities to apply and practice reading strategies with many different types of texts. Demonstrates understanding of concepts of print during shared or individual reading by:
R-1-10.1. Not assessed at this grade level.
R-1-10.2. Not assessed at this grade level.
R-1-10.3. Not assessed at this grade level.
R-1-10.4. Identifying title, author, illustrator (Local)
R-1-10.5. Identifying basic punctuation marks and their usage (e.g., question marks, periods, quotation marks) (Local)
R-1-10.6. Demonstrating 1-1 matching of words spoken to words in print (Local)
RI.R-1-11. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Reading Fluency and Accuracy: Reads grade-level appropriate material with:
R-1-11.1. Accuracy: reading material appropriate for the end of grade 1 with at least 90-94 percent accuracy (Local)
R-1-11.2. Fluency: reading previously -introduced or previously read grade-appropriate text with oral fluency rates of at least 50-80 words correct per minute (Local)
R-1-11.3. Fluency: reading grade-appropriate text in a way that makes meaning clear, and demonstrates phrasing, expression, and attention to end punctuation (Local)
RI.R-1-12. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Reading Strategies: Strategies for Monitoring and Adjusting Reading: All students need ongoing opportunities to apply and practice reading strategies with many different types of texts. Demonstrates ability to monitor comprehension and strategy use for different types of texts:
R-1-12.1. Monitoring own reading for meaning and self-correcting when attempt to identify or predict words does not fit with cues provided by the print or the context (e.g., syntax/language structure, semantics/meaning, picture) (Local)
R-1-12.2. Subsumed under R-1-12.1.
RI.R-1-14. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Breadth of Reading: Reading Widely and Extensively: All students need ongoing opportunities to read many different types of texts. Demonstrates the habit of reading widely and extensively by:
R-1-14.1. Reading with frequency, including in-school, out-of-school, and summer reading (Local)
R-1-14.2. Reading from a wide range of genres/kinds of text and a variety of authors (e.g., literary, informational, and practical texts) (Local)
R-1-14.3. Not assessed at this grade level.
RI.R-1-15. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Breadth of Reading: Reading for Research Across Content Areas: Research by reading multiple sources (including print and non-print texts) to report information, or to formulate a judgment by:
R-1-15.1. Not assessed at this grade level.
R-1-15.2. Not assessed at this grade level.
R-1-15.3. Not assessed at this grade level.
R-1-15.4. Not assessed at this grade level.
RI.R-1-16. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Literary Texts: Generates a Personal Response: Generates a personal response to what is read aloud or read independently through a variety of means by:
R-1-16.1. Comparing stories or other texts to personal experience, prior knowledge, or to other texts (Local)
R-1-16.2. Not assessed at this grade level.
RI.R-1-17. NECAP (Reading) - Grade Level Expectation: Breadth of Reading: Participating in a Literate Community: All students need ongoing opportunities to read many different types of texts. Demonstrates participation in a literate community by:
R-1-17.1. Self-selecting reading materials aligned with reading ability and personal interests (Local)
R-1-17.2. Participating in discussions about text, ideas, and student writing by offering comments and supporting evidence, recommending books and other materials, and responding to the comments and recommendations of peers, librarians, teachers, and others (Local)
RI.W-1-1. NECAP (Writing) - Grade Level Expectation: Structures of Language: Applying Understanding of Sentences, Paragraphs, Text Structures: Students demonstrate command of the structures of sentences, paragraphs, and text by:
W-1-1.1. Expressing an idea using pictures and letters (Local)
W-K-1.2. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-K-1.3. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-1-1.4. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-1-1.5. Distinguishing between letters, words, and sentences (Local)
W-1-1.6. Applying directionality as appropriate to text (e.g., left to right, top to bottom) (Local)
RI.W-1-2. NECAP (Writing) - Grade Level Expectation: Reading-Writing Connection: Writing in Response to Literary or Informational Text- Showing Understanding of Ideas in Text: In response to literary or informational text, students show understanding of plot/ideas/concepts by:
W-1-2.2. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-1-2.3. Not assessed at this grade level.
RI.W-1-3. NECAP (Writing) - Grade Level Expectation: Reading-Writing Connection: Writing in Response to Literary or Informational Text - Making Analytical Judgments about Text: In response to literary or informational text read aloud or read independently, students make and support analytical judgments about text by:
W-1-3.1. Using prior knowledge or references to text to respond to a question (evidence may take the form of pictures, words, sentences, or some combination) (Local)
W-1-3.2. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-1-3.3. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-1-3.4. Organizing ideas by using a beginning and an ending given a structure (Local)
RI.W-1-4. NECAP (Writing) - Grade Level Expectation: Expressive Writing: Narratives - Creating a Story Line: In written narratives, students organize and relate a story line/plot/series of events by:
W-1-4.1. Creating an understandable story line, when given a structure (may take form of words or pictures or some combination) (Local)
W-1-4.2. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-1-4.3. Not assessed at this grade level.
RI.W-1-5. NECAP (Writing) - Grade Level Expectation: Expressive Writing: Narratives- Applying Narrative Strategies: Students demonstrate use of narrative strategies by:
W-1-5.1. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-1-5.2. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-1-5.3. Creating character(s) (may take form of words or pictures or some combination) (Local)
W-1-5.4. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-1-5.5. Writing about observations and experiences (Local)
W-1-5.6. Extending ideas (Local)
RI.W-1-6. NECAP (Writing) - Grade Level Expectation: Informational Writing: Reports, Procedures, or Persuasive Writing- Organizing Information: In informational writing (reports or procedures), students organize ideas/concepts by:
W-1-6.1. Sorting and classifying facts (Local)
W-1-6.2. Representing facts through pictures, 'words,' 'sentences,' or some combination (Local)
W-1-6.3. Listing steps of a procedure in a logical order, with instructional support (Local)
W-1-6.4. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-1-6.5. Not assessed at this grade level.
RI.W-1-7. NECAP (Writing) - Grade Level Expectation: Informational Writing: Reports, Procedures, or Persuasive Writing- Conveying Information In informational writing (reports or procedures only), students effectively convey purpose by:
W-1-7.1. Using pictures to create meaning (Local)
W-1-7.2. Not assessed at this grade level.
RI.W-1-8. NECAP (Writing) - Grade Level Expectation: Informational Writing: Reports, Procedures, or Persuasive Writing- Using Elaboration Strategies: In informational writing (reports or procedures only), students demonstrate use of a range of elaboration strategies by:
W-1-8.1. Including details/information relevant to topic (details/information may take the form of pictures with captions, 'words,' 'sentences,' or some combination) (Local)
W-1-8.2. Not assessed at this grade level.
RI.W-1-9. NECAP (Writing) - Grade Level Expectation: Writing Conventions: Applying Rules of Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics: In independent writing, students demonstrate command of appropriate English conventions by:
W-1-9.1. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-1-9.2. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-1-9.3. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-1-9.4. Not assessed at this grade level.
W-1-9.5a. Using phonemic awareness and letter knowledge to spell independently (using phonetic or temporary spelling when needed) (Local)
W-1-9.5b. Correctly spelling many common words (e.g., had, can, including own first name) (Local)
RI.W-1-11. NECAP (Writing) - Grade Level Expectation: Habit of Writing: Writing Extensively: Demonstrates the habit of writing extensively by:
W-1-11.1. Not assessed at this grade level.
RI.OC-1-1. NECAP (Oral Communication) - Grade Level Expectation: Oral Communication Strategies: Interactive Listening: In oral communication, students demonstrate interactive listening by:
OC-1-1.1. Following simple verbal instructions and directions (Local)
OC-1-1.2. Responding to or reacting to stories, songs or poems by using simple words, phrases, and sentences (Local)
OC-1-1.3. Not assessed at this grade level.
OC-1-1.4. Participating in large group discussions to show understanding (Local)
OC-1-1.5a. Understanding that communicating is verbal and nonverbal (Local)
OC-1-1.5b. Attending to speaker and waiting for appropriate turn to speak (Local)
RI.OC-1-2. NECAP (Oral Communication) - Grade Level Expectation: Oral Communication Strategies: Make Oral Presentations: In oral communication, students make oral presentations by:
OC-1-2.1. Orally ordering ideas in a sequence or telling a familiar story (Local)
OC-1-2.2. Using various forms of linguistic elements and structures (e.g., saying 'Please' in a command, asking about the weather as a form of polite address, stating a question in affirmative form) (Local)
OC-1-2.3. Telling/retelling stories using details (Local)
OC-1-2.4. Providing appropriate feedback to audience (Local)
OC-1-2.5. Recognizing role of audience (Local)