1. Welcome to First Grade Curriculum Night
First Grade Team:
Mrs. Brace
Ms. Cottman
Ms. Jones

2. How to Help at Home - Reading
Encourage your child to sound out unfamiliar words.
Practice common sight words.
Work on asking them written comprehension questions. You can have them write down their answer and then read it aloud to you.
Read 30 minutes a night.

3. How to Help at Home - Writing
Allow them to try and sound out words on their own. We want to make sure they are able to connect the sounds that they hear into writing that same word down.
Give them a picture to write/describe.
Use a word wall at home for your child to reference while they work.

4. Math – 1st quarter Write/Count/Read numbers to 120
Addition and Subtraction Skills
Solving Word Problems
Compare two numbers based on meanings of tens and ones.

5. Science and S.S. – 1st quarter
Rules and how they are needed in the home, school and community.
Classifying the roles of authority figures in the home, school, and community.
How conflicts can be resolved in the home, school, and community.
Explain the importance of push and pull to move an object (force and motion)

6. New Progress Reports
The district has come out with New Progress Reports based on End of Year expectations.

7. New Progress Reports Cont.

8. Testing: Reading 3D - Goals
BOY
MOY
EOY
Phoneme Segmentation
40 sounds per min.
n/a
Nonsense Word Fluency
27 sounds per min.
1 words read
43 sounds per min.
8 words read
58 sounds per min.
13 words read
Dorf – Oral Reading Fluency
(3 passages)
23 accurately read words
47 accurately read words
TRC Reading Level
D/E Developing
G/H Progressing
J/K
Mastery

9. Testing: MAP scores - Goals
Mean scores
BOY
MOY
EOY
Reading
160.7
171.5
177.5
Math
162.4
173.8
180.8
If a student receives a higher mean score than the student norms, they are given a goal to work towards for the year. This ensures to continue the growth process.
You will receive a MAP report in your child’s folder as soon as their class finishes MAP testing.
You will also see the school score and the district score.

10. Testing – Explained MAPs Reading 3D (TRC/Dibels)
Scores will come home once all students in first grade have finished testing.

11. Sight Words
See list of sight words on the grade level weebly. These words will be the ones used on the Reading 3D assessment.
Sight Words

12. Nonsense Words
Please see the list of practice nonsense words on the Weebly.
Please remember that students must be able to read the whole word, and must pronounce the vowel in the word as a short vowel, not a long vowel.
The end of year goal for nonsense words is 13 whole words read and 58 correct letter sounds.

13. Top Reasons for Nonsense Words
They are part of whole words.
For example, the word conference has “con,” “fer,” and “ence” in it
Help learning syllables
Build confidence with decoding
Indication of if the child knows the most common sound of the word

14. Fluency Tested for Middle and End of the year.
Students will be tested on reading fluency (how many words they can read accurately in a minute). The end of year goal for fluency is 47 words per minute.

15. Fluency Link
*Here are some practice fluency passages you can use to with your child.

16. Reading 3D - TRC
The TRC assessment is used to determine each student’s reading level. They will be given a leveled book to read, and must answer 5 oral questions and 2 written comprehension questions. For written comprehension, the students must score a 2 or a 3 on both in order to pass the written comprehension part of the assessment.

17. Student Friendly Rubric

18. Written Comprehension
The following written comprehension responses are based on the book “Bonk’s New Bike.” This book can be found on readinga-z.com under level J as well as under your child’s Raz-kids account.
There are three reading responses for the book to show what a score of 1, 2, and 3 looks like for written comprehension.

19. Problem
Bonk had a dog
How was the problem solved?
Bonk got a bike
This written comprehension response would be scored as a 1. There are no details and does not really explain what the problem and solution is based on the story.

20. Problem
Bonk needed money.
How was the problem solved?
He walked dogs for money with his friends.
This written comprehension response would be given a 2. The response tells the problem and solution of the story, but it lacks detail.

21. Problem
Bonk needed money so he could buy a new bike.
Bonk had a hard time walking all the dogs.
How was the problem solved?
Bonk started a dog walking business so he could earn the money on his own to buy the bike.
Bonk was having a hard time walking all the dogs so he let his friends help him walk the dogs.
This written comprehension response would be given a 3. The response thoroughly tells the problem and solution of the story, as well as gives great details from the story to support the response.

22. Problem
Bonk needed money so he could buy a new bike.
Bonk had a hard time walking all the dogs.
How was the problem solved?
Bonk started a dog walking business so he could earn the money on his own to buy the bike.
Bonk was having a hard time walking all the dogs so he let his friends help him walk the dogs.
This written comprehension response would be given a 3. The response thoroughly tells the problem and solution of the story, as well as gives great details from the story to support the response.

23. Homework
Your child’s teacher might have different homework or expectations. This is an overview of homework. For any homework questions please your child’s teacher.

24. Math Homework Each week a math sheet will be sent home.
Each evening, your child will have 3 problems to complete Monday through Thursday.
Please make sure the math is completed each day neatly and accurately.
They must show their work for some problems.

25. Spelling Homework
Your child’s weekly spelling words will be sent to you through the end of that month.
Each week student’s will have 10 words in the spelling pattern they are working on and two challenge vocabulary words. Not every class/student’s spelling words will be the same.
Please review the spelling homework menu and follow directions. Homework is to be completed neatly each evening in the “homework” composition notebook sent home in your child’s book bag.
Please have them label the top of each page with the activity.

26. Reading Homework Reading homework will be different from Kindergarten.
Students will not be bringing home FRED books or books from school.
We ask that you choose a book each evening from home and fill out their reading log each evening.
There is also a reading menu of homework items that need to be completed Based on your child’s teacher requirements. These homework assignments need to be completed in the same composition notebook as spelling with the same expectations.

27. Homework Cont.
An easy way of remembering homework is as follows some teachers will check homework in the morning and aaain on Friday.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Reading
Spelling
HW DUE

28. Other Literacy Homework for the month Math Homework for the month
Kids A-Z is a great place for your child to read books and answer questions on their level.
Moby Max, Compass Learning, DreamBox
Things you can find on our grade level weebly:
Literacy Homework for the month
Math Homework for the month
Resourceful websites
MAP information

29. Questions
Do you have any questions about how to work with your child or questions about our school?