New Mexico State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 1

NM.I: Reading and listening for comprehension. Students will apply strategies and skills to comprehend information that is read, heard and viewed.

1-A: Listen to, read, react to and retell information:

1-A:1. Listen to and retell short stories.

1-A:2. Recognize repetition and predict repeated phrases.

1-A:3. Respond and elaborate in answering ''who, what, when, where and how'' questions.

1-A:4. Discuss and explain response to ''how, why, and what if'' questions in sharing narrative and expository texts.

1-A:5. Self-monitor comprehension by using questions, retelling and summarizing.

1-A:6. Follow simple written and oral instructions.

1-A:7. Increase vocabulary through reading, listening and interacting.

I-B: Locate and use a variety of resources to acquire information across the curriculum.

I-B:1. Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of resources (e.g., story books, short chapter books, poems, newspapers, compact discs, software, telephone books, everyday print, skits, and short plays).

I-C: Demonstrate critical thinking skills to comprehend written, spoken, and visual information.

I-C:1. Associate target words with prior knowledge and explore an author's choice of words.

I-C:2. Predict and explain what will happen next in a story.

I-C:3. Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of texts (e.g., story books, short chapter books, poems, newspapers, telephone books, everyday print, skits and short plays).

I-C:4. Describe differences and similarities between different stories (i.e., characters, plot, setting).

I-D: Acquire reading strategies which include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.

I-D:1. Develop phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principles by:

I-D:1.a. blending the phonemes of one-syllable words,

I-D:1.b. segmenting the phonemes of one-syllable words that contain a minimum of three and four phonemes, and

I-D:1.c. changing the beginning, middle and ending sounds to produce new words.

I-D:2. Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills by:

I-D:2.a. using phonics knowledge and sound-letter relationships to decode regular one-syllable words,

I-D:2.b. recognizing high-frequency and common irregularly spelled words in text (e.g., whole, two, where, said, have),

I-D:2.c. identifying upper and lower case letters from a random arrangement, and

I-D:2.d. producing verbally the individual sound of each letter or the whole word when presented with c-v and c-v-c combinations.

I-D:3. Read aloud grade-level text with fluency and comprehension by reading orally with fluency and accuracy (when presented with a grade-level passage of connected text).

I-D:4. Use pronunciation, sentence meaning, story meaning and syntax to confirm accurate decoding or to self-correct errors.

I-D:5. Increase vocabulary through reading, listening and interacting.

NM.II: Writing and speaking for expression. Students will communicate effectively through speaking and writing.

II-A: Demonstrate competence in speaking to convey information.

II-A:1. Read aloud grade-level text with fluency and comprehension.

II-A:2. Engage in discussions resulting in written products.

II-A:3. Select and use new vocabulary and language structures (e.g., retelling, using exclamatory phrases to express emotional response to events or ideas).

II-B: Apply grammatical and language conventions to communicate.

II-B:1. Confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text by identifying key words.

II-B:2. Use context to resolve ambiguities about word and sentence meaning.

II-B:3. Relate prior knowledge to textual information.

II-B:4. Use phonetic knowledge and basic patterns to spell correctly three- and four-letter words.

II-B:5. Apply phonics to write independently, using emergent or conventional spelling.

II-B:6. Write all upper and lower case letters of the alphabet using correct letter formation.

II-B:7. Use complete sentences to write simple text.

II-B:8. Use basic capitalization and punctuation for:

II-B:8.a. first word in a sentence,

II-B:8.b. proper names,

II-B:8.c. using a period to end a declarative sentence, and

II-B:8.e. a question mark to end an interrogative sentence.

II-B:9. Self-monitor composition by using re-reading and peer conferences.

II-C: Demonstrate competence in the skills and strategies of the writing process.

II-C:1. Write by using an author's model of language and extending the model (e.g., writing different endings for the story, composing an innovation of a poem).

II-C:2. Compose a variety of products (e.g., short stories, letters, simple poems, descriptions, journal entries).

II-C:3. Write descriptions of familiar persons, places or objects.

II-C:4. Compose fairly readable first drafts using appropriate parts of the writing process (some attention to planning, drafting, re-reading for meaning and some self-correction).

II-C:5. Begin to utilize conventional spelling

NM.III: Literature and Media. Students will use literature and media to develop an understanding of people, societies and the self.

III-A: Use language, literature and media to gain and demonstrate awareness of cultures around the world.

III-A:1. Increase vocabulary and understand expressions found in appropriate literary works.

III-A:2. Identify the characters and simple story lines from selected myths and stories from around the world.

III-A:3. Describe events related to other nations or cultures (e.g., writing, drama, constructions, drawing).

III-B: Identify and use the types of literature according to their purpose and function.

III-B:1. Identify elements of plot and setting in a story.

III-B:2. Demonstrate understanding (e.g., act out, draw, write, talk) of sequence and characterization in a story.