1st Grade Curriculum

Ohio Standards

St. John Schools follow the curriculum that Ohio Scandalized. Below is a summary of what Ohio expects teachers to teach Kindergarten in each subject. For more details, please click the link next to each subject.

English Language Art

Language
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
- With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
- Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., because).

Reading- Foundational Skills
- Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print by recognizing the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).
- Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and phonemes (sounds).
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Reading - Informational
- Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
- Analyze informational text development.
- Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in 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 bythe words in a text.
- Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
- Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
- Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
- With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.

Reading - Literature
- Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
- Analyze literary text development.
- Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
- 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 widereading of a range of text types.
- Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.
- Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
- Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
- With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1. Activate prior knowledge and draw on previous experiences in order to make text-to-self or text-totext connections and comparisons.

Mathematics

Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
- Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. Drawings need not show details, but should show the mathematics in the problem. (This applies wherever drawings are mentioned in the Standards.)
- Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.
- Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem.
- Relate counting to addition and subtraction, e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2.
- Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency with various strategies for addition and subtraction within 10. Strategies may include counting on; making ten, e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14; decomposing a number leading to a ten, e.g., 13 – 4 = 13 – 3 – 1 = 10 – 1 = 9; using the relationship between addition and subtraction, e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 – 8 = 4; and creating equivalent but easier or known sums, e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13.
- Understand the meaning of the equal sign, and determine if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false.
- Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
- Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.
- Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand the following as special cases: 10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones — called a "ten;" the numbers from 11 to 19 are composed of a ten and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones; and the numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones).
- Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <.
- Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; record the strategy with a written numerical method (drawings and, when appropriate, equations) and explain the reasoning used. Understand that when adding two-digit numbers, tens are added to tens; ones are added to ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.
- Given a two-digit number, mentally find 10 more or 10 less than the number, without having to count; explain the reasoning used.
- Subtract multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 from multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 (positive or zero differences), using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.

Measurement and Data
- Order three objects by length; compare the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object.
- Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units by laying multiple copies of a shorter object (the length unit) end to end; understand that the length measurement of an object is the number of same-size length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps.
- Work with time and money.
- Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.

Geometry
- Distinguish between defining attributes, e.g., triangles are closed and three-sided, versus non-defining attributes, e.g., color, orientation, overall size; build and draw shapes that possess defining attributes.
- Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape. Students do not need to learn formal names such as "right rectangular prism."
- Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of. Describe the whole as two of or four of the shares in real-world contexts. Understand for these examples that decomposing into more equal shares creates smaller shares.

Science

Earth and Space Science
- The sun is the principal source of energy.

Physical Science
- Properties of objects and materials can change.
- Objects can be moved in a variety of ways, such as straight, zigzag, circular and back and forth.
Life Science
- Living things have basic needs, which are met by obtaining materials from the physical environment.
- Living things survive only in environments that meet their needs.

Social Studies

History
- Time can be divided into categories (e.g., months of the year, past, present and future).
- Photographs, letters, artifacts and books can be used to learn about the past.
- The ways basic human needs are met have changed over time.
Geography
- Maps can be used to locate and identify places.
- Places are distinctive because of their physical characteristics (land forms and bodies of water) and human characteristics (structures built by people).
- Families interact with the physical environment differently in different times and places.
- Diverse cultural practices address basic human needs in various ways and may change over time.

Government
- Individuals have responsibility to take action toward the achievement of common goals in homes, schools and communities and are accountable for those actions.
- Collaboration requires group members to respect the rights and opinions of others.
- Rules exist in different settings. The principles of fairness should guide rules and the consequences for breaking rules.

Economics
- Wants are unlimited and resources are limited. Individuals make choices because they cannot have everything they want.
- People produce and consume goods and services in the community.
- People trade to obtain goods and services they want.
- Currency is used as a means of economic exchange.

1st Grade Curriculum

Ohio Standards

English Language Art

Language

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.

With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., because).

Reading- Foundational Skills

Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print by recognizing the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).

Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and phonemes (sounds).

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Reading - Informational

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Analyze informational text development.

Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in 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 bythe words in a text.

Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.

Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).

With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.

Reading - Literature

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Analyze literary text development.

Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

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 widereading of a range of text types.

Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

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

With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1. Activate prior knowledge and draw on previous experiences in order to make text-to-self or text-totext connections and comparisons.​

Mathematics

Mathematics

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Number and Operations in Base Ten

Measurement and Data

Geometry

Science

Earth and Space Science

Physical Science

Life Science

Social Studies

History

Geography

Government

Economics

With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1. Activate prior knowledge and draw on previous experiences in order to make text-to-self or text-totext connections and comparisons.