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English Language Arts — Grade 1

Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.

Objective 1.01

Develop phonemic awareness and demonstrate knowledge of alphabetic principle:

• count syllables in a word.
• blend the phonemes of one-syllable words.
• segment the phonemes of one-syllable words.
• change the beginning, middle, and ending sounds to produce new words.
• create and state a series of rhyming words that may include consonant blends (e.g., flag, brag).

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Objective 1.02

Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:

• generate the sounds from all the letters and appropriate letter patterns which should include consonant blends and long and short vowel patterns.
• use phonics knowledge of sound-letter relationships to decode regular one-syllable words when reading words and text.
• recognize many high frequency and/or common irregularly spelled words in text (e.g., have said, where, two).
• read compound words and contractions.
• read inflectional forms (e.g., -s, -ed, -ing) and root words (e.g., looks, looked, looking).
• read appropriate word families.

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Objective 1.03

Use pronunciation, sentence meaning, story meaning, and syntax to confirm accurate decoding or to self-correct errors.

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Objective 1.04

Self-monitor decoding by using one or two decoding strategies (e.g., beginning letters, rimes, length of word, ending letters).

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Objective 1.05

Increase vocabulary, concepts, and reading stamina by reading self-selected texts independently for 15 minutes daily. Self-selected texts should be consistent with the student's independent reading level.

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