1st Grade Language Arts Skill Practice
Foundational Skills
Print Concepts
Sentence Features

Phonological Awareness
Long vs short vowel sounds

Consonant blends in single syllable words

Initial medial and final sounds in single syllable words

Sound Sequence

Phonics and Word Recognition
Decoding two syllable words

Long vowel teams

Number of syllables

Irregularly Spelled Words

Phonics and Word Analysis

Decoding one syllable words

Read Words with Inflectional Endings

Common Consonant Digraphs

Fluency
Reading With Sufficient Accuracy and Fluency

Language
Conventions of Standard English
Common, Proper, and Possessive Nouns

Subject Verb Agreement

Singular and Plural Nouns with Matching Verbs

End of Sentence Punctuation

Use End Punctuation for Sentences

Frequently Occurring Adjectives

Frequently Occurring Conjunctions

Frequently Occurring Prepositions

Past, Present, and Future Verbs

Capitalize Dates and Names of People

Frequently Occurring Irregular Words

Use Determiners

Simple and Compound Declarative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory Sentences

Personal, Possessive, and Indefinite Pronouns

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Use sentence context for meaning

Identify real context

Define Words By Category and By One or More Key Attributes

Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs

Use Frequently Occurring Affixes
