1st Grade Report Overview

The Phonics, Spelling and Word Study Lessons Grade 1 materials reviewed partially meet the criteria for alignment to standards and research-based practices for foundational skills instruction. Materials include instruction in letter formation for all 52 letters, and students have opportunities for practicing letter formation with various materials. Materials partially meet the criteria for materials provide instructional support for general concepts of print. The instructional materials reviewed provide explicit instruction in phonological awareness through systematic modeling; however, materials include limited opportunities for frequent student practice. While there are a variety of phonological awareness activities, materials include 11 phonological awareness lessons. Materials emphasize explicit phonics instruction through systematic and repeated modeling; however, students have limited practice opportunities to decode words that consist of common and newly-taught sound and spelling patterns. Students have limited opportunities to decode phonetically regular words in a sentence and limited opportunities to build/manipulate/spell and encode grade-level phonics. Instructional materials include eight generative lessons for high-frequency words. Materials provide limited practice opportunities to read and write high-frequency words in context (sentences). The teacher reads aloud poetry from Sing a Song of Poetry; however, materials do not contain resources for frequent explicit, systematic instruction in fluency elements and students do not read text with a focus on fluent reading.