First Grade Language Arts

The first semester of First Grade Language Arts provides young learners with a strong foundation in phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development, and foundational grammar skills. Through a structured sequence of modules, students explore consonant sounds, short and long vowels, blends, digraphs, and syllable patterns while applying decoding strategies to read and write words and sentences. Each lesson emphasizes high-frequency words, context-based vocabulary understanding, and comprehension strategies such as identifying characters, setting, and main ideas. Students also engage in sentence construction, story writing, and revising skills to enhance their early literacy development. By the end of the semester, students are creating a solid foundation for reading fluently and writing with clarity, using appropriate grammar and vocabulary.

The second semester of First Grade Language Arts continues to provide young learners with a strong foundation in phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development, comprehension skills, writing, and foundational grammar. Through a structured sequence of modules, students explore long vowels, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, and other phonics patterns to develop the skills needed to decode words and improve their reading fluency. They will continue building vocabulary through context and apply comprehension strategies such as identifying characters, setting, and main ideas. Students will also learn about informational text features and structures, including how to identify the main idea and supporting details. Writing instruction becomes more rigorous, with students engaging in the writing process both within and across modules to develop opinion, informational, narrative, and research-based pieces. By the end of the semester, students will have built a solid foundation for reading fluently and writing clearly, using appropriate grammar, vocabulary, phonics, and comprehension skills.

Semester A

Module 1: Consonant Review
Module 2: Short a
Module 3: Short i
Module 4: Short o
Module 5: Short e
Module 6: Short u
Module 7: L Blends
Module 8: S Blends
Module 9: R Blends
Module 10: Final Blends
Module 11: 3 Letter Blends
Module 12: ch, tch, and ck
Module 13: Digraphs wh, ph
Module 14: Digraphs sh, th, ng
Module 15: Long a: a_e
Module 16: Long i: i_e
Module 17: Long o: o_e
Module 18: Long u: u_e

Semester A Syllabus

Semester B

Module 19: Long e: e_e
Module 20: Soft c, soft g, dge
Module 21: Long a: ai, ay
Module 22: Long e: ee, ea
Module 23: Long o: oa, ow, oe
Module 24: Lon gi: y, igh, ie
Module 25: Long e: y, ey
Module 26: Long u: u, ew, ue
Module 27: R-controlled ar
Module 28: R-controlled er
Module 29: R-controlled ir
Module 30: R-controlled ur
Module 31: or, ore, oar
Module 32: Short oo
Module 33: Long u (oo)
Module 34: ou, ow
Module 35: oi, oy
Module 36: air, are, ear

Semester B Syllabus

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Materials listed should be acquired by the student prior to beginning work in the course.