Building foundational literacy through integrated language experiences
Develop essential literacy skills through meaningful communication experiences! The Grade 1 Language Arts curriculum integrates listening, speaking, reading, viewing, writing, and representing to build confident communicators who appreciate language and cultural expression.
Develop literacy skills through integrated listening, speaking, reading, viewing, writing, and representing experiences
Grade 1 · Language Arts
Develop oral communication skills through active listening, speaking, and engaging in conversations and presentations.
The learner will explore, use, and critically apply oral language for pleasure, personal growth, to form and foster relationships and, to develop an appreciation of and celebration of culture and of oral languages.
1 specific outcomeGrade 1 · Language Arts
Build foundational reading skills including phonics, fluency, comprehension, and critical viewing of various texts.
The learner will demonstrate a variety of ways to use background knowledge and interests to select and engage critically with a range of culturally diverse paper-based, visual, and digital texts for pleasure and personal growth.
36 specific outcomesThe learner will interact with understanding and critical thought to a variety of genres and text forms using comprehension strategies, vocabulary, language structures, and graphophonic cues.
19 specific outcomesStudents will develop their understanding of how an author’s purpose and style, genre, text form, text features and choice of vocabulary, language, influence the meaning of text and define the author’s craft.
15 specific outcomesGrade 1 · Language Arts
Develop writing skills to communicate ideas through various forms and purposes using appropriate conventions.
Learners will generate, gather and organize thoughts to explore, clarify and reflect on ideas, feelings and experiences as they create a written or representative draft, independently and collaboratively, for a range of audiences and purposes.
16 specific outcomeslearners will revise the organization, and language use (vocabulary and grammar) of drafted writing or representation, collaboratively and independently, for a variety of purposes and audiences.
17 specific outcomeslearners will use their knowledge of spoken language, written language and writing conventions to refine the precision and enhance the meaning and clarity of their written work.
16 specific outcomes