The Common Core Standards are specific skills and content that students need to master at each grade level. The standards came out of a national initiative by governors and top school officials to improve the quality and rigor of public education. Here are a few examples of what first graders are expected to know and be able to do by the end of the year. For a complete list of the standards, click on the link at the bottom of this page.
Reading:
Reading:
- Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
- Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
- Identify the main topic and retell key details of an informational text.
- Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
- Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl)
- Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
- Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
- Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
- Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of ten, using concrete models or drawings, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
- Identify coins and find the value of a collection of two coins
- Mentally find 10 more or 10 less than any two-digit number, without counting; explain the reasoning used.
- Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers
- Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories.
- Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.