First Grade - Manistee Area Public Schools

Learn about the Essential Standards curriculum for our 1st Grade students.

FIRST GRADE ESSENTIAL STANDARDS

understand a story
retell a story using the 5 finger retell
write complete simple sentences
write a question sentence
write a compound sentence
write a strong feeling sentence
write a command sentence
use short vowel sounds
use long vowel sounds
make words by blending sounds
say beginning, middle, and end sounds in words I hear
spell and read words with digraphs (example: sh, th, ch, wh)
use vowel teams
use final -e. (silent final -e, bossy -e, magic -e, silent-e, final-e)
read high frequency words
make connections in a story
tell how two books are the same
tell how two books are different
write a narrative with 2 or more events
write details about the story
use words to show event order
write a closure to the story
build on others’ talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others through multiple exchanges
ask or answer questions about key details

sing all the notes and rhythm of the song
move appropriately to the music
describe music by moving and/or drawing symbols
understand what different parts of a song are; melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre & form
listen to a performance and know how to control my body appropriately

understand a story being told through visual art
give examples of how artwork is influenced by the environment from which it was created

use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem
apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract
understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem
add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10
count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral
understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones
understand the following as special cases: (b) The numbers from 11 to 19 are composed of a ten and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones
understand the following as special cases: (c) The numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones)
partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of. Describe the whole as two of, or four of the shares. Understand for these examples that decomposing into more equal shares creates smaller shares.

hop, gallop, jog, and slide using a mature pattern
catch a self-tossed or well-thrown large ball with hands, not trapping or cradling against the body
work independently and safely in physical education.