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First Grade Reading Targets

• Reads critically, fluently, and with expression.
• Reads fiction and non-fiction.
• Reads for research, pleasure and knowledge of literature.
• Makes predictions and makes a personal connection to the story.
• Communicates understanding gained from reading. (Comprehension)
• Uses a variety of word attack strategies to read words. (Phonics)
• Responds to reading by identifying character, setting, and events.
• Build stamina for 20-30 minutes of independent reading.

Writing Targets

• Makes a plan for writing. Shares and publishes work.
• Writes to explain or give basic information about familiar topics
• Uses letter-sound knowledge and segmentation strategies to spell unfamiliar words.
• Spells grade level “no excuse” words.
• Prints legibly using correct spacing, capital letters and punctuation.
• Proofreads, revises and edits for grade level grammar.
• Builds stamina for 20-30 minutes of independent writing.

Math Targets

• Understands and uses numbers 1-120 with fluidity, forward and backward counting.
• Skips counts by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.
• Develop and use a variety of strategies to solve basic addition and subtraction problems.
• Identifies, describes, represents and compares geometric shapes.
• Uses standard and non-standard units to measure.
• Identifies coins and combinations of coins.
• Tells time to the hour and half hour,
• Uses the language of math to express ideas and problem solve.
• Collect, describe and interpret data. (Probability)
• Uses place value and materials to add within 100.