1st Grade Report Overview

Instructional materials provide explicit instruction and opportunities for printing all 26 upper and lowercase letters. Materials include sufficient and explicit instruction for students about the organization of print concepts. Materials include a variety of activities for phonological awareness, providing students with ample opportunities to engage with phonological awareness activities daily. Materials provide systematic and explicit instruction for students in phonological awareness throughout all lessons. Instructional materials include consistent systematic and explicit instruction in phonics skills with repeated teacher modeling across all Skills in the Teacher Guide. The materials provide frequent opportunities for students to decode phonetically spelled words using phonemes and/or syllables. The materials provide systematic practice for decoding phonetically regular words in a sentence through the decodable readers and activity pages that align with the phonics skill for the lesson. The materials include explicit, systematic teacher-level instruction and modeling to demonstrate the use of phonics to encode sounds to letters and words in writing tasks through dictation work. Instructional materials provide systematic and explicit instruction and practice in fluency by focusing on accuracy and automaticity. Materials include limited opportunities for explicit, systematic instruction in fluency using grade-level text in the form of decodable readers. Materials provide few explicit lessons in confirming and self-correcting errors in fluency.