1st Grade English Language Arts

Framework

Goals and Objectives
Reading
  • Increase vocabulary as they blend consonant sounds, vowel and consonant digraphs, and more.
  • Read simple stories fluently and independently.
  • Retell the main idea of a story and answer questions about the text.
  • Identify parts of a story or book.
  • Know the names and sounds of all the consonants and vowels.
  • Understand phonics concepts such as consonant combinations.
  • Develop an understanding of composition.

Writing

  • Write from top to bottom, left to right while using spacing between words.
  • Correctly write 3- 4-letter words and longer words phonetically.
  • Write simple sentences and short stories or paragraphs in chronological order.
Grammar
  • Use correct capitalization and punctuation.
  • Understand and identify the parts of speech and types of sentences.
  • Identify compound words and distinguish between proper and possessive nouns.

First Grade Writing

First Grade Essay

Research Writing

32 Week Spelling Words List

Most of the weekly spelling lists are based on word families. This makes it easier to progressively teach kids the phonics and sounds they need to know to learn how to spell these 1st grade spelling words.

Week 1 to 8 spelling words CLICK HERE

Week 9

  1. can
  2. fan
  3. man
  4. pan
  5. plan
  6. ran
  7. tan
  8. than
  9. van
  10. with

Phonics Skills Introduced

The new phonics skills to teach your student this week are the:

consonant V

consonant digraph PL

Week 10

  1. in
  2. bin
  3. chin
  4. fin
  5. grin
  6. pin
  7. sin
  8. tin
  9. win
  10. find

Phonics Skills Introduced

This week you can teach your students about the:

  • consonant digraph CH

Week 11

  1. or
  2. for
  3. more
  4. have
  5. has
  6. was
  7. are
  8. our
  9. out
  10. about

Phonics Skills Introduced

Introduced this week is the:

  • silent E

Week 12

  1. one
  2. two
  3. to
  4. too
  5. number
  6. many
  7. write
  8. words
  9. come
  10. some

Language Skills Introduced

This week you could include supplemental instruction for your kids on:

  • silent consonants
  • difference between to, two, and too
  • “er” sound

Week 13

  1. bad
  2. dad
  3. had
  4. lad
  5. mad
  6. pad
  7. sad
  8. tad
  9. glad
  10. into

    New Phonics Sound of the Week

    GL blend introduced this week

Week 14

  1. den
  2. hen
  3. men
  4. pen
  5. bun
  6. run
  7. what
  8. when
  9. which
  10. who

    New Phonics Sound of the Week

    WH digraph introduced this week

Week 15

  1. bed
  2. fed
  3. red
  4. shed
  5. sled
  6. led
  7. cod
  8. rod
  9. yes
  10. block

New Phonics Sound of the Week

BL blend introduced this week

Week 16

  1. did
  2. hid
  3. kid
  4. lid
  5. rid
  6. mob
  7. rob
  8. sob
  9. slob
  10. snob

    New Phonics Sound of the Week

    SN blend introduced this week

Week 17

  1. cab
  2. lab
  3. crab
  4. scab
  5. web
  6. bib
  7. rib
  8. cub
  9. rub
  10. tub

New Phonics Blends To Learn

CR & SC blends are introduced this week.

Week 18

  1. cap
  2. lap
  3. map
  4. nap
  5. rap
  6. tap
  7. clap
  8. trap
  9. bud
  10. mud

    New Phonics Sounds Introduced This Week

    Blends:

    • CL
    • TR

Week 19

  1. dip
  2. hip
  3. lip
  4. rip
  5. sip
  6. tip
  7. zip
  8. chip
  9. flip
  10. drip

    New Phonics Sound

    DR blend introduced this week.

Week 20

  1. cop
  2. hop
  3. mop
  4. pop
  5. top
  6. chop
  7. flop
  8. stop
  9. use
  10. people

Week 21

  1. cup
  2. pup
  3. each
  4. reach
  5. bag
  6. rag
  7. tag
  8. brag
  9. flag
  10. first

Phonics Blend Introduced

This week the BR blend. This would be a great week to highlight this phonics sound.

Week 22

  1. beg
  2. leg
  3. peg
  4. big
  5. dig
  6. fig
  7. pig
  8. wig
  9. water
  10. other

Week 23

  1. dog
  2. fog
  3. jog
  4. log
  5. dug
  6. hug
  7. jug
  8. mug
  9. rug
  10. were

Week 24

  1. all
  2. ball
  3. call
  4. fall
  5. hall
  6. tall
  7. wall
  8. small
  9. called
  10. long

Phonics Skills Introduced

This following phonics skills are new this week:

  • SM blend
  • NG digraph
  • suffix ED

Week 25

  1. bell
  2. cell
  3. fell
  4. shell
  5. spell
  6. could
  7. would
  8. should
  9. like
  10. these

Week 26

  1. ill
  2. fill
  3. hill
  4. kill
  5. pill
  6. will
  7. chill
  8. bull
  9. full
  10. pull

Week 27

  1. law
  2. paw
  3. raw
  4. saw
  5. see
  6. deep
  7. feed
  8. seed
  9. give
  10. live

Week 28

  1. day
  2. may
  3. way
  4. clay
  5. play
  6. pray
  7. tray
  8. rake
  9. wake
  10. gave

PR blend introduced this week

Week 29

  1. ring
  2. sing
  3. wing
  4. sting
  5. swing
  6. thing
  7. spring
  8. string
  9. from
  10. said

SW, SPR & STR blends introduced this week.

Week 30

  1. bow
  2. low
  3. tow
  4. flow
  5. know
  6. snow
  7. box
  8. toy
  9. any
  10. been

KN blend introduced this week.

Week 31

  1. cow
  2. how
  3. now
  4. wow
  5. down
  6. town
  7. clown
  8. there
  9. their
  10. they’re

Week 32

  1. hook
  2. look
  3. took
  4. good
  5. wood
  6. stood
  7. maybe
  8. time
  9. made
  10. make

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