Complete First Grade Language Arts Curriculum: Part 1

In this class, we will cover the first part of first grade curriculum.  This class follows common core standards to ensure all essential first grade skills are covered. Semester 1 focuses primarily on fiction text skills as well as opinion and narrative writing.  We will cover basic parts of grammas as well as sentence structure and skills needed to write in complete sentences.  Each skill will be introduced and covered in class with optional worksheets to continue focusing on weekly skills on days that class does not take place.  Class weekly schedule will be as follows:
Monday: Phonics and Grammar skills
Wednesday: Reading Skills within a Passage
Friday: Writing Skills

Class breakdown for each day will be as follows:
5 minutes of skill introduction
12 minutes of practice together in class
8 minutes of individual practice with assistance
5 minutes of game time reviewing skill

The first semester will be broken down as follows:
Week 1: short vowel sounds and capital letters in sentences/ask and answer questions
Week 2: digraphs sh and ch and punctuation/story retell
Week 3: digraphs th and wh and common nouns/ central message of a story
Week 4: beginning blends and proper nouns/ characters, setting , problem, solution
Week 5: ending blends and possessive nouns/ fiction vs nonfiction
Week 6:Long vowel sounds and singular vs plural nouns/ point of view
Week 7: vowel teams and verbs/ illustrations in text
Week 8: vowel teams and adjectives/ compare and contrast in stories
Week 9: vowel teams and conjunctions/ senses and feeling in poetry
Week 10: vowel teams and determiners/ poetry
Week 11: /k/ sounds and prepositions/ poetry
Week 12: multisyllabic words/ introduction to nonfiction ask and answer questions
Week of December 13: Review of all skills 

While this class focuses on 1st-grade reading and writing skills, it is not tailored to students' reading levels.  To focus on improving reading skills specifically, our monthly Guided Reading classes, found here, https://outschool.com/classes/guided-reading-growth-small-group-tutoring-for-beginning-readers-vosfoJDG#usvB05c0IY are recommended and can be taken in conjunction with the first grade full curriculum class.