First Grade 1st Language Arts -Reading, Writing, and Phonics (Literature Based)

This class is designed for homeschoolers and children learning at home! This is a year long curriculum. I will use the 1st grade common core standards but, this class will be taught with alternative method to ensure full child engagement and excitement for learning. We will do active learning assignments to get the children moving and out of their chair. This class is high energy, interactive and not your normal 1st language arts classroom! If your child is not interested in language arts, reading and writing is a struggle, or you just have an active child with a short attention span this class is for you! 

Class will be taught in a literature-based method that will allow for children to master material in gradual way through the use of stories.
 We will learn new concepts and then return to them to ensure mastery. Class size will be kept small to ensure every child is getting the most from the class. We will start class every day with morning meeting. Morning meeting will consist of an ice breaker, introductions, and a short writing/ drawing prompt. We will complete activities for phonics, writing, reading, and grammar daily through use of books, games, slides, and a lot of interaction each day of class. 


-Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

-Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate
understanding of their central message or lesson.

-Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that
suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

-Explain major differences between books that tell
stories and books that give information, drawing on a
wide reading of a range of text types.

-With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of
appropriate complexity for grade 1.

-Compare and contrast the adventures and
experiences of characters in stories.

-Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

-Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

-Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify
the meaning of words and phrases in a text.

-Know and use various text features (e.g., headings,
tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons)
to locate key facts or information in a text.

-Distinguish between information provided by pictures
or other illustrations and information provided by the
words in a text.

-Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence
(e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).

-. Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken
single-syllable words

-Orally produce single-syllable words by blending
sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.

-Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and
final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable
words.

-Segment spoken single-syllable words into their
complete sequence of individual sounds
(phonemes).

-Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

-Read words with inflectional endings

-Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly
spelled words.

-Read grade-level text with purpose and
understanding.

- Read grade-level text orally with accuracy,
appropriate rate. and expression.

-Use context to confirm or self-correct word
recognition and understanding. Rereading as
necessary.

Schedule is as follows: 
This is a ongoing class that will meet 3 times a week.