Grade 1 English Language Arts
8 units matched to the Saskatchewan Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Letters & Words”.
Strands and outcomes
- Comprehend and Respond (CR1.1–CR1.4): Comprehend and respond to a variety of grade-level texts. View and comprehend the explicit messages, feelings, and features in a variety of visual and multimedia texts. Listen to and comprehend a variety of texts to retell the sequence and key points (who, what, when, where, why… (and 1 more outcome)
- Compose and Create (CC1.1–CC1.4): Compose and create a range of visual, multimedia, oral, and written texts that explore and present thoughts on. Represent key ideas and events, in a logical sequence and with detail, in different ways. Speak clearly and audibly about ideas, experiences, preferences, questions, and conclusions in a logical sequence… (and 1 more outcome)
- Assess and Reflect on Language Abilities (AR1.1–AR1.2): Identify, with teacher guidance, what good viewers, listeners, readers, representers, speakers, and writers do. Set and monitor, in consultation with the teacher, goals for more effective viewing, listening, reading…
Units
Unit 1
Blend It
Blending sounds into words (s-u-n makes sun), counting the sounds in a word and hearing the last sound. These listening skills are the base of reading and spelling.
Outcome: CR1.4 · blending and segmenting sounds to read words
Unit 2
Short Vowels
Hearing the short vowel in the middle of words like cat, bed, pig, dog and sun, and filling in the missing vowel to spell the word.
Outcome: CR1.4 · short vowel sounds in reading and spelling simple words
Unit 3
Word Families
Words that share an ending, like cat, hat and bat. Once children know one word in a family, they can read and spell many more by changing the first sound.
Outcome: CR1.4 · word patterns and word families in reading
Unit 4
Sight Words
Common words like said, was, they and where that are tricky to sound out. Children practise finding, using and spelling them so they can read them at a glance.
Outcome: CR1.4 · reading common words
Unit 5
Sentences
Starting sentences and names with a capital letter, ending with a period or question mark, telling whole sentences from parts, counting words and finding naming words.
Outcome: CC1.4 · writing sentences with capital letters and end marks
Unit 6
Story Time
Reading short stories, then naming who is in them and where they happen, and putting the events in order. Reading the story aloud together and talking about it helps a lot!
Outcome: CR1.3, CR1.4 · the sequence and key points of stories
Unit 7
Describing Words
Opposites (hot and cold) and describing words that tell how something looks, feels, tastes or sounds, including finding the describing word in a sentence.
Outcome: CC1.4 · describing words and opposites in writing
Unit 8
More Than One
Plurals: adding -s to a naming word means more than one (one cat, two cats). Stretch questions add -es to words like box and fox.
Outcome: CC1.4 · plurals in writing
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