Grade Level Reading Expectations - First Grade

Retells, recalls, or recounts some details of text
Phrasing and expression in oral reading shows awareness of meaning
Recounts 3 or 4 steps of a procedural text or items of information
Retells or recounts stories and sequences of 3 or 4 incidents accurately; retells sequence of an activity
Identifies consequences of actions in a text
Beginning to read beyond text and make inferences
Identifies some features or traits of characters from illustrations and text
Make accurate predictions at instructional level and can explain confirming strategy
Attends to all parts of text in working toward accuracy

Uses initial, final, and medial sounds to identify as well as confirm text
Associates sound with letter clusters as well as individual letters when sounding out words in reading and writing
Uses _s, -ed, -ing, -er, and _est endings
Identifies alliteration, rhyme, and repeated or alternating patterns
Increases sight vocabulary, especially of "basic" vocabulary
Studies detailed illustrations, especially in puzzles and nonfiction materials

Locates information by page
Reads, though may not always use, table of contents and glossary
Reads and follows simple directions
Uses pictures to confirm and not just predict text
Uses appropriate directionality when reading diagrams, story maps, charts, stories, poems
Reads on, as well as reruns, to regain meaning

	Fiction (Literary)	Non-fiction (Information, task, career)	Text Features
New to Grade Level	Narrative - traditional Rhyme and Poetry - personal	Question and answer	Cover information Title page Table of contents Glossary Diagrams Maps (3D, maze)
Previously Introduced	Narrative - realistic, fantasy Recount Songs Letters (personal) Diaries Rhyme and Poetry - counting, number, playground	Nonfiction texts should include science, social studies, math, the arts, health, and fitness Procedural Exposition Recount Reports Labels Captions Story maps Charts