1st Grade Report Overview

The Grade 1 materials meet the expectations for alignment to standards and research-based practices for foundational skills instruction. Materials include clear guidance to support teachers with explaining and modeling the correct formation of all 26 upper- and lowercase letters and provide explicit instruction and practice for all students regarding the organization of print concepts, including daily opportunities for students to engage in phonological awareness activities. Materials provide the teacher with systematic, explicit modeling for instruction in syllables, sounds (phonemes), and spoken words. Materials provide the teacher with explicit phonics instruction through systematic and repeated modeling of grade-level standards, including systematic and repeated instruction for students to hear, say, encode, and read each newly taught grade-level phonics pattern. Materials contain lessons that give students frequent opportunities to decode phonetically spelled words. The Sequential and Differentiated learning pathways include teacher-level instruction and modeling in a Minilesson, and the More section of each lesson includes additional practice opportunities to differentiate learning. Materials contain systematic and explicit instruction of high-frequency words, and the lessons provide students with frequent opportunities to read grade-level high-frequency words in sentences. Materials provide students with multiple and varied opportunities over the course of the year to learn, practice, and apply word analysis strategies through interactive activities. Materials provide systematic, explicit instruction and practice in fluency by focusing on accuracy and automaticity in decoding. Materials provide a Teacher Guide that includes a Scope and Sequence and Lesson Pacing Guide, along with instructional routines and lesson targets and two flexible pathways to support teaching and learning. Materials provide adult-level explanations for each of the foundational skills in the Research Base Guide, Articulation Guide, the Detailed Guidance for Delivery of Instruction document, and the Savvas Realize teacher training platform. Materials contain a clear, evidence-based explanation for the expected hierarchy for teaching phonological awareness skills. Materials regularly and systematically provide various assessment opportunities for students to demonstrate progress toward mastery of print concepts and word recognition, including multiple benchmark and formative fluency assessments and practice resources to build students’ skills in rate, expression, phrasing, and intonation/inflection. The Common Core State Standards for each Lesson, summative Module Assessments, and formative assessment Exit tickets are noted in the Standards box on the digital platform. Materials are web-based, compatible with multiple internet browsers, platform-neutral, and follow a universal programming style. Digital materials enhance student learning through teacher resources and interactive activities.