1st Grade Common Core Standards for ELA

Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns (e.g., I, me, my; they, them, their, anyone, everything).

Use frequently occurring conjunctions (e.g., and, but, or, so, because).

Use determiners (e.g., articles, demonstratives).

Use end punctuation for sentences.

Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

Use frequently occurring affixes as a clue to the meaning of a word.

Define words by category and by one or more key attributes (e.g., a duck is a bird that swims; a tiger is a large cat with stripes).

Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.

Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.

Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (e.g., He hops; We hop).

Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future (e.g., Yesterday I walked home; Today I walk home; Tomorrow I will walk home).

Spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions.

Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings.

Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.

Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.

Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.

Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

Capitalize dates and names of people.

Use commas in dates and to separate single words in a series.

Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.

Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy).

Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.

Read words with inflectional endings.

Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

Ask questions to clear up any confusion about the topics and texts under discussion.

Print all upper- and lowercase letters.

Use frequently occurring adjectives.

Use frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., during, beyond, toward).

Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.

Identify frequently occurring root words (e.g., look) and their inflectional forms (e.g., looks, looked, looking).

Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).

Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds (phonemes).

Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

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.