RSU 5 Standards and Performance Indicators
Grade 1
Habits of Work
Respect
- Respect: respect for the ideas, feelings, and property of others
Preparedness
- Preparedness: timeliness, organization, homework completion
Engagement
- Engagement: participation, interpersonal involvement, group-work
Determination
- Determination: ability to self-assess; persistence, effective use of feedback
Reading
Foundational Skills
Print Concepts
- Understands features of a sentence (first word, capitals, end punctuation)
Phonemic Awareness
- Demonstrates understanding of spoken words, syllables, & sounds (phonemes)
- Demonstrates understanding of spoken words, syllables, & sounds (phonemes)
Phonics and Word Recognition
- Decodes regularly spelled one and two syllable words
- Knows common consonant digraphs
- Reads grade-appropriate high-frequency words by sight
Fluency
- Reads with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
Writing Production
- Handwrites with appropriate alignment and size, form, neatness and spacing
Spelling
- Spells grade level patterns
Narrative Reading
Comprehends Stories
- Use pictures and story details to describe setting and events
- Retell stories, including key details, and understands central message
- Uses key details to describe characters, settings, and major events in a story
- Uses key ideas and details to ask/answer questions
- Identify words and phrases that suggest feelings or appeals to the senses
- Explains differences between type of texts (e.g., fiction, nonfiction, poetry)
- Compares/contrasts adventures of characters in stories
Informational Reading
Comprehends Informational Text
- Ask and answer questions about key details
- Identifies the main topic and retells key details
- Ask and answer questions to understand unknown words
- Knows and uses text features (e.g., table of contents, headings, pictures)
- Compares/contrasts two texts on the same topic
Writing
Narrative Writing
Structure
- Writing is organized according to purpose with a beginning, middle, and end
Development
- Writing is elaborated with details, reasons and examples
- Demonstrates age appropriate elements of craft such as word choice, dialogue, and feeling
Conventions
- Writing includes sentence end punctuation, capital letters for names and the use of commas in dates and lists.
Informational Writing
Structure
- Writing teaches reader about a topic, tells different parts about the topic across pages.
Development
- Writing teachers reader about a topic, tells different parts about the topic across pages.
Conventions
- Writing includes sentence end punctuation, capital letters for names and the use of commas in dates and lists.
Opinion Writing
Structure
- Writing Includes an opinion, identifying likes and dislikes and a reason why.
Development
- Writing includes at least one reason for an opinion.
Conventions
- Writing includes sentence end punctuation, capital letters for names and the use of commas in dates and lists.
Speaking and Listening
Comprehension and Collaboration
- Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
- Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
- Build on others' talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others through multiple exchanges.
- Ask questions to clear up any confusion about the topics and texts under discussion.
- Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
- Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
- Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.
- Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
- Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation
Math
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Solve addition and subtraction problems and understand the relationship between addition and subtraction.
- Use addition and subtraction strategies to solve equations
Number and Operations in Base Ten
- Extend the counting sequence to 120 from any number
- Understand place value to add and subtract
Measurement and Data
- Measure, order and compare lengths in whole units
- Tell and write time
- Represent and interpret data
Geometry
- Reason with shapes and their attributes
Communication and Reasoning
- Demonstrates Standards for Mathematical Practices
Science
Demonstrates Understanding of Science Content
Demonstrates Scientific Practices
Social Studies
Demonstrates understanding of social studies content
Applies social studies processes, knowledge and skills
Music
- Singing
- Playing Instruments
- Steady Beat
- Listening
Physical Education
- Participates in physical fitness activities
- Demonstrates a variety of movement and balance skills
- Identifies rules for physical education activities
Art
- Demonstrates understanding of art concepts
- Demonstrates creative problem solving
- Demonstrates art skills
Technology
- Demonstrates understanding of concepts taught