About First Grade
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First grade is a year of major cognitive milestones. Students will begin to:
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Next Generation Science Standards
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First grade is a year of major cognitive milestones. Students will begin to:
- Start developing the skills to reason and think logically; try to think about things before making decisions
- Use what they hear and read to start learning—not just what they see and do
- Find it hard to make choices because they want to do everything at once
- Can read a number of sight words (words they see frequently and can read without sounding out) and sound out and read other words
- Begin to have a better sense of time; understand increments of time, days, weeks, months and seasons
- Start sounding out words; understand the relationship between letters and sounds
- Know, use and understand thousands of words
- Stop reversing letters (by the end of first grade)
Wonders English Language Arts
Expressions Math
Next Generation Science Standards
GLAD strategies