2010-2011 Syllabus for 1^st Grade    Term 1

Teacher: Paula Rutland

Reading

Objectives: This is a general overview of what the teacher will teach and what the student is expected to master.

- The student will use word recognition and vocabulary (word meaning)

skills to communicate.

- The student will apply knowledge of concepts about print.

-Point to words in text when reading aloud, matching spoken words to print.

- Distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters.

- The student will apply knowledge of phonological and phonemic awarenessb4 Identify orally beginning, final, and medial sounds in one syllable words (e.g., /ch/ in chat,

/sh/ in wish, /e/ in read).

- Add or delete a phoneme to change a spoken word (e.g., Add /b/ to “at” = bat or take /k/

from “cat"=at).

- The student will use word recognition skills

- Generate the sounds from all the letters and letter patterns (including consonant blends,

consonant digraphs, short and long vowel patterns), and blend those sounds into

recognizable words.

-short vowel patterns - CVC = pat, sit, mug

- The student will develop and apply knowledge of words and word meanings to

communicate.

-Identify and sort pictures and words into basic categories.

- The student will apply strategies and skills to comprehend, respond to, interpret, or

evaluate a variety of texts of increasing length, difficulty, and complexity.

-The student will use text features, parts of a book, text structures, and genres to analyze

text.

- Text features – titles, illustrations, headings, graphs, etc.

-The student will analyze, interpret, compare, or respond to increasingly complex literary

and informational text, citing text-based evidence.

- Interpret text through moving, drawing, speaking, acting, or singing.

- Compose visual images based on text.

-Identify favorite passages..nly Web page or from the MDE site; teacher may choose to include additional objectives; sequence objectives as much as possible to match your term plans

Assessments: A comprehension test is given after each story. 

Homework/Assignments/Projects: The story for the week should be read at home according to the week's assignments.

Course Requirements: The student is required to complete all classroom and homework assignments.

Reteaching and Retesting:  A retest will be given for a failing grade and after any test upon parent request.  The parent will be notified in writing. Reteaching will take place and the student will be given the retest when ready.

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Language Arts

Objectives: This is a general overview of what the teacher will teach and what the student is expected to master.

Term 1

-The student will express, communicate, or evaluate ideas effectively.

- The student will compose a description of a person, place, or thing.

- Compose drawings/visual images and orally describe.

-The student will apply Standard English to communicate.

- The student will use Standard English mechanics.

- Begin to use appropriate end punctuation (e.g., period).

- Begin to use commas (e.g., dates).

- Begin to use colon in notation of time.

- Begin to use capitalization (e.g., first word in a sentence, proper nouns, days of the week,

months of the year, the pronoun “I”). Introduced in Term 1, Tested in Term 4.

- Develop handwriting skills. Position paper in order to write in a left to right progression

moving from top to bottom on the page. Write first and last name legibly.

- The student will use varied sentence structures.

-Analyze sentences to determine purpose (e.g., declarative/telling).

- Compose sentences with a variety of purposes (e.g., declarative/telling).

- Compose simple sentences.

Assessments: spelling tests, creative writing, sentence dictation, grammar,sight words

Homework/Assignments/Projects: Study Spelling and sight words nightly

Course Requirements: The students are required to complete all class and homework assignments.

Reteaching and Retesting:  A student who fails a test will be offered an opportunity for re-teaching and retesting within 10 days by the classroom teacher.  In that instance the teacher will send home a written notice.  Communication will take place between the teacher and the parent as to the re-teaching times and the date of the retest.  The student must attend the re-teaching sessions to be eligible to retest.  The higher grade of the two tests will be placed in the grading program in the computer.      

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Math

Objectives: This is a general overview of what the teacher will teach and what the student is expected to master.

Assessments: -Recognize and write numbers 0 to 50.

- Identify the value of coins (penny, nickel, dime, quarter).

 -Use nonstandard units (paper clips, unifix cubes, etc.) to measure length.

 -Tell time to the hour intervals using both digital and analog clocks.

 - Interpret simple bar graphs and pictographs.

 -Analyze and interpret data by using mathematical language such as more than, less than, etc.     

Homework/Assignments/Projects: A test will be taken after each completed chapter.

Course Requirements: Math homework is assigned nightly as stated on the homework log.

Reteaching and Retesting:  A student who fails a test will be offered an opportunity for re-teaching and retesting within 10 days by the classroom teacher.  In that instance, the teacher will send home a written notice.  Communication will take place between the teacher and the parent as to the re-teaching times and the date of the retest.  The student must attend the re-teaching sessions to be eligible to retest.  The higher grade of the two tests will be placed in the grading program in the computer.      

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