Each Language Arts category holds resources to target those specific
concepts. To work on 1st Grade English/Language Arts activities,
click on a topic below to find internet resources for each of the specific learning
standards, with the following Grade Level Expectations (“GLE”).
- Language: Usage, mechanics, spelling, definition, pronunciation, alphabetizing
- Communication: Listening skills, basic speaking skills, conversation rules
- Writing: Write for a variety of purposes to different audiences, brainstorming, independent spelling, write legibly, use descriptive words
- Research: Identify and narrow a topic, gather information from a variety of sources, use family as resource
- Logic: Enhance thoughtful reasoning and facilitate learning, make inferences and draw
conclusions, apply logic skills
- Informational Text: Explore a variety of informational text, use text features and identify the main idea in informational texts
- Media:Recognize that media can be a source of information and/or entertainment, use
media to publish and present information
- Literature: Comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading, various literary
genres and their characteristics, basic literary terms (e.g., setting, point of view, simile, metaphor, rhythm)
