End Of The Year Assessment

End of the year assessment

First Grade Benchmarks

Reading:

- Understand the alphabetic principle that sounds in words are expressed by the letters of the alphabet

- Use structural cues to recognize one-syllable words, blends, and consonant diagraphs including letter/sound, onset, and rhymes, whole words chunks, word families, and diagraphs

- Recognize grade 1 frequently encountered words in print and out of context automatically

- Know the meaning of words encountered frequently in grade 1 reading and oral language contexts

- Use punctuation cues

- Independently reads unfamiliar text with 90% accuracy

- Make progress in automatically recognizing the Dolch basic sight words and 95 common nouns

- In context, determine the meaning of words and phrases included objects, actions, concepts, content vocabulary and literary terms, using strategies and resources; including context clues, mental pictures, and questioning.

- Use punctuation cues when reading aloud with intonation, pauses, and emphasis.

- Make text-to-text and text-to-self connections and comparisons by activating prior knowledge and experience to ideas in text through oral and written responses.

- Recall in sequence up to three important ideas and details of familiar simple oral and written text.

- Identify problem/solution, sequence of events, and sense of story (beginning, middle, and end)

- Explain how authors use text features including headings, titles, labeled photographs, and illustrations to enhance the understanding of key and supporting ideas

Language Arts

- Use singular and plural nouns

- Use conjunctions

- Use contractions (including but not limited to - +not and +is contractions)

- Use verbs, nouns, adjectives, pronouns

- Use question marks, exclamation points, and periods

- Use capital and lower case letters correctly

- Write a personal narrative

- Develop