Grade1
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Welcome to First Grade

Teachers 
 Cheryl Belote 
Mary Alice Manz 
Priscilla Metcalfe 
Terese Allender 
Nicole Hughes

Open Court Reading Program

Designed to…

~Develop confident and fluent readers through print and phonemic awareness activities and explicit phonics instruction
~Engage students in constructing meaning through the teaching of reading comprehension skills and strategies

Grade 1 Goals

          First grade students will...  

Have a solid foundation in phonemic awareness.

Learn the spelling of common English sounds and a strategy for reading unfamiliar words.

Develop fluency.

Read literature confidently and with understanding.

Become fluent readers.

Take responsibility for their own learning as they pursue personal paths of inquiry as soon as possible.

Units of Study - Language Arts

Let’s Read

Animals

Things That Go

Our Neighborhood at Work

Weather

Journeys

Keep Trying

Games

Being Afraid

Homes

 

Units of Study - Social Studies
Families in America
Citizenship

Families Around the World

Units of Study - Science

Senses

Seasons

Save the Earth

Seeds and Plants

Nutritional Needs of Humans

Sun, Heat and Temperature

Types of Weather

Solar System
Units of Study - Math

Patterns & Readiness for Addition and Subtraction
Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Strategies for Addition Facts to 12
Strategies for Subtraction Facts to 12
Geometry & Fractions
Time
Counting to 100
Place Value, Data & Graphs
Money
Measurement & Probability
Addition and Subtraction Facts to 18
Two-Digit Addition & Subtraction

 

 
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Last modified: October 2007
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