1st Grade Goals
Reading Goals
Term 2 (January-March)
Unit 3: Learning About the World: Reading Nonfiction
- Students will notice that nonfiction books are different from fiction books
- Students will study each page, and learn facts about a topic
- Students will practice retelling
- Students will use reading strategies to help them figure out how to read tricky words
- Students will learn new vocabulary words (key words) about their nonfiction topics
Unit 4: Readers Have Big Jobs to Do: Fluency, Phonics, and Comprehension
- Students will use everything they know to solve a word
- Students will learn to self monitor by checking the words
- Students will set new reading goals
- Students will make predictions while reading their books
- Students will use words they know to help them solve words they don’t know
- Students will use sight words to read fluently
- Students will learn reading comprehension skills to help them build their comprehension skills
Writing Goals
Term 2 (January-March)
Unit 3: Nonfiction Chapter Books
- Students will understand that in nonfiction books, there are facts
- Students will think of topics that they know about to teach others
- Students will teach their topics using pictures, diagrams, words
- Students will add details, and content vocabulary words in their nonfiction books
- Students will add chapters in their nonfiction books
- Students will add introduction and conclusion in their nonfiction books
Unit 4: Writing Reviews (Opinion Writing)
- Students will think of topics ideas for reviews
- Students will give their opinion about a topic and give reasons
- Students will add examples for each reason
- Students will add introduction and conclusion in their opinion writing
Math Goals
Term 2 (January-March)
Topic 6: Represent and Interpret Data
- Students will organize data into categories
- Students will use tally chart to interpret data
- Students will use picture graph to interpret data
- Students will solve math word problems
Topic 7: Extend the Counting Sequence
- Students will count by 10’s to 120
- Students will count by 1’s to 120
- Students will count on a number chart to 120
- Students will count to 120 using an open number line
Topic 8: Understand Place Value
- Students will read and write numbers to 19
- Students show groups of 10 with connecting cubes
- Students will group tens to solve problems
- Students will decompose numbers in multiple ways
- Students use tens and ones to make numbers in different ways
