Reading and Writing Skills your child will learn in Grade 1

Kids learn a lot in kindergarten to help build a strong foundation for the coming academic years they’ll spend in school. Some skills your child will learn–include social skills like listening and taking turns while talking or reading, and others are more academic skills that your child needs to develop reading and writing skills.

Grade 1 will be about expanding and developing the skills your child picked up in kindergarten and preschool years. Most grade 1 lessons will have an academic focus, and their homework will also get more challenging compared to what they did during kindergarten.

In kindergarten, your child continues to expand their vocabulary, learn rhymes, and songs, start recognizing individual sounds in words, and this lays the base to improve their comprehension skills. For writing skills, your child would now be familiar with writing CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words like cat, red, bat, and short simple sentences like ‘the dog ran home.’

Grade 1 curriculum can differ from state to state, but a common theme and pattern can be seen throughout to ensure every child meets the overall education standards.

Skills your child will learn in Grade 1- Reading and Writing

Reading:

• Reading fluency
• Read 150 high-frequency words, aka sight words
• Recognize the different features of a sentence like capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and first words
• Developing comprehension with grade-level materials
• Learn proper, common, and possessive nouns
• Retelling the plot of a story, its characters, and the important part of the plot
• Identifying the meaning of words in different texts 

Writing:

• Writing upper and lower case letters legibly
• Write full sentences using capital letters and ending punctuation
• Learn to organize their thoughts to write a story
• Using descriptive words while writing
• Spelling and using sight words accurately
• Learning to write narratives with properly sequenced events

To get a jump start on the school year ahead, let your child practice reading different age-appropriate books, interpret the story from seeing the picture on the front page, and hear you pronounce new words while reading. Give your child little tasks to write, like writing sight words, names, and a short story using certain words you can give them.

The concepts taught in Grade 1 will be vital for your child’s education as they lay a strong base for more complex concepts they’ll be studying as they advance through school. If you spot a problem, talk to your child’s educator. A child’s love of learning is established during these formative years, and it becomes essential for you to be on the same page as your child’s educator for them to maintain their love of learning throughout their life.

Head on over to byjuslearning.com to learn more about our Active Learning approach to Math, Language, and Reading for children between Pre-K and Grade 3.  

Sources:

https://learning.ccsso.org/common-core-state-standards-initiative