Elementary Language Arts Grade 1
Pre-Requisites: None
Credits: 1.0
Estimated Completion Time: 32-36 weeks
Description
Grab your compass and gear up for a camping trip! In this course, students will go on a reading adventure where they will learn sight words and develop skills in writing, vocabulary, comprehension, phonics, and more. Students will learn to read and write by understanding how letters and letter combinations make certain sounds. Join Cameron the Camper as he uses question words, his spelling backpack, and other fun tools to dive deeper into reading!
Major Topics and Concepts
Segment One
Module 01 - Community
- Alphabet letters and sounds
- Initial, medial, and final sounds
- Vowels and consonants
- Short vowel sounds
- Consonant-vowel-consonant words
- Reading grade-level sight words
- Ask questions about a text
- Identify story elements
- Recognize and use new vocabulary
- Use context clues
- Onset and rime
- Identify title, author, and illustrator of a book
- Sequencing and retelling a story
- Fluency: accuracy and automaticity
- Common nouns
- Legible printing
- Facts and opinions
- Use multimedia elements
- Informative writing
- The writing process
- Creating quality work products
Module 02 - Helping Others
- Letters and words
- Sounds in words
- Digraph sounds
- Blend and segment sounds
- Read digraphs
- Write digraphs
- Onset and rime
- Reading grade-level sight words
- Recognizing and using new vocabulary
- Use context clues
- Fluency: accuracy and automaticity
- Informative texts
- Identify title, author, and illustrator of a book
- Ask questions about a text
- Find the topic in an informative text
- Identify topic and details of an informative text
- Retell an informative text
- Identify and use verbs
- Legible printing
- Use multimedia elements
- Narrative writing
- The writing process
- Creating quality work products
Module 03 - Seasons
- Identify blends
- R, L, S, T cluster blends
- Read blends
- Write blends
- Reading grade-level sight words
- Recognizing and using new vocabulary
- Use context clues
- Fluency: accuracy and automaticity
- Features of a poem
- Narrative texts
- Point of view
- Answer questions about a text
- Identify and use adjectives
- Correct handwriting and spacing
- Sentence structure
- Writing on a topic
- Opinion writing
- The writing process
- Creating quality work products
- Participate in collaborative conversations
Module 04 - Discoveries
- The long a sound
- Blend and segment sounds
- Read with long a vowel teams: ai and ay
- Write with long a vowel teams: ai and ay
- Reading grade-level sight words
- Fluency: accuracy and automaticity
- Informative texts
- Ask and answer questions about a text
- Use context clues
- Recognizing and using new vocabulary
- Identify and define text features
- Proper nouns
- Participate in collaborative conversations
- Informative writing
- Writing on a topic
- The writing process
- Creating quality work products
- Correct handwriting and spacing
Module 05 - Legends
- The long e vowel sound: vowel teams and magic e
- Segment and blend sounds in words
- Reading grade-level sight words
- Recognize and use new vocabulary
- Use context clues
- Fluency: accuracy and automaticity
- Narrative texts
- Describe story elements
- Identify descriptive words in a text
- Plural nouns
- Narrative writing
- The writing process
- Legible printing
- Creating quality work products
- Participate in collaborative conversations
Module 06 - Amazing Animals
- Long i vowel sound: vowel teams and magic e
- Segment and blend sounds in words
- Reading grade-level sight words
- Recognize and use new vocabulary
- Use context clues
- Fluency: accuracy and automaticity
- Author’s opinion
- Compare and contrast two texts on the same topic
- Pronouns
- Opinion writing
- The writing process
- Legible printing
- Creating quality work products
- Participate in collaborative conversations
Segment Two
Module 07 - Heroes
- Long o vowel sound: vowel teams and magic e
- Segment and blend sounds in words
- Reading grade-level sight words
- Recognize and use new vocabulary
- Use context clues
- Fluency: accuracy and automaticity
- Narrator and point of view
- Retell narrative texts
- Identify the moral
- Singular and plural possessive nouns
- Narrative writing
- Legible printing
- Creating quality work products
- Participate in collaborative conversations
Module 08 - Citizenship
- Long u vowel teams
- Long u magic e
- Read and write long u words
- Segment and blend sounds in words
- Reading grade-level sight words
- Recognize and use new vocabulary
- Text features
- Main topic and key details
- Legible printing
- Fluency: expression and rate
- Contractions
- Expository writing
- The writing process
- Creating quality work products
- Participate in collaborative conversations
Module 09 - Contributions
- Double consonants
- Soft c and soft g
- Segment and blend syllables
- Reading grade-level sight words
- Recognize and use new vocabulary
- Use context clues
- Fluency: expression and rate
- Identify story elements
- Text evidence
- Retell narrative texts
- Find the moral of a story
- Compare and contrast two texts on the same topic
- Use commas in a series
- Opinion writing
- The writing process
- Legible printing
- Create quality work products
- Participate in collaborative conversations
Module 10 - Innovators
- Trigraphs and triple clusters
- Words with the /ng/ and /nk/ sound
- Segment and blend syllables
- Reading grade-level sight words
- Recognize and use new vocabulary
- Use context clues
- Fluency: expression and rate
- Identify topic and key details
- Retell informative texts
- Author’s opinion
- Conjugate regular verbs
- Expository writing
- Research and using sources
- The writing process
- Multimedia tools
- Legible printing
- Create quality work products
- Participate in collaborative conversations
Module 11 - Conservation
- R-controlled vowels
- Segment and blend syllables
- Reading grade-level sight words
- Recognize and use new vocabulary
- Use context clues
- Fluency: expression and rate
- Identify and describe story elements
- Retell narrative texts
- Compare and contrast texts
- Identity and explain the moral
- Commas in a series
- Adjectives
- Interjections
- Narrative writing
- The writing process
- Multimedia tools
- Legible printing
- Create quality work products
- Participate in collaborative conversations
Module 12 - Growth
- Compound words
- Segment and blend multi-syllabic words
- Reading grade-level sight words
- Recognize and use new vocabulary
- Use context clues
- Fluency: expression and rate
- Retell informative texts
- Use text evidence
- Text features
- Compare and contrast two texts on the same topic
- Formal and informal language
- Opinion writing
- The writing process
- Multimedia tools
- Legible printing
- Create quality work products
- Participate in collaborative conversations
Grading Policy
