Welcome to the First Grade Report Card Companion (Quarter 1)
At Ellington, we want families to clearly understand what grades mean and how they reflect student learning. This Report Card Companion provides an overview of the South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Standards taught each quarter, along with examples of what students are expected to know and do.
It is important to remember that these standards are year-long goals. Each quarter, students are evaluated on skills and content that are developmentally appropriate for that point in the year. Because of this, families may notice their child’s reported progress fluctuate from quarter to quarter as the skills and concepts become more challenging. This is normal and expected — what matters most is the overall growth toward meeting the end-of-year standards.
This document is designed to:
- Give families a clear picture of what is being taught each quarter.
- Explain the expectations for student learning and quality work.
- Support families in partnering with teachers to help every child succeed.
English Language Arts
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SC College & Career Ready Standards
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Expectations of a student meeting the grade-level standard
(at this point in the school year)
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Foundations of Literacy
- Delete, add, and substitute the initial or final phonemes of a spoken word with three to five phonemes, and say the resulting word. (ELA.1.F.1.7)
- Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding and encoding words with prompting and support. (ELA.F.3)
- Read texts orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression. (ELA.1.F.4.2)
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Students can:
- Delete OR add the initial phonemes of a spoken word with three to five phonemes
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Applications of Reading
- Identify a central idea and supporting details in an informational text. (ELA.1.AOR.2.2)
- Retell a text orally and in writing to enhance comprehension: (ELA.1.AOR.6.1)
- a. include main story elements at the beginning, middle, and end for a literary text; and
- b. include a central idea and supporting details for an informational text.
- Identify and use phonic patterns and inflectional morphemes that do not change the spelling of the base word. (ELA.1.AOR.9.1)
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Students can:
- Retell some parts of familiar texts and identify the beginning OR end in a literary text heard or read
- Retell some parts of familiar informational texts and identify the central idea
- Identify 5 short vowel sounds and 25 consonant/consonant digraph sounds
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Research
- Ask and answer questions (who, what, when, where, why, and how) about print and non-print sources to obtain and refine knowledge. (ELA.1.R.1.1)
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Students can:
- Begin to ask and answer questions (who, what, when, where, why, and how) about print and non-print sources to obtain and refine knowledge.
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Written and Oral Communication
- Write opinion pieces about a topic. (ELA.1.C.1.1)
- Write informative/explanatory pieces to name a topic and provide information about the topic. (ELA.1.C.2.1)
- Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences. (ELA.1.C.3.1)
- Print all uppercase and lowercase letters and use appropriate spacing for letters, words, and sentences. (ELA.1.C.6.1)
- Listen to others to ask and answer questions on a topic. (ELA.1.C.9.1)
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Students can:
- With instructional support, write a narrative that includes a character.
- Participate in conversations with at least 1 partner in structured discussions about grade-appropriate topics and texts
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Math
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SC College & Career Ready Standards
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Expectations of a student meeting the grade-level standard
(at this point in the school year)
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Numerical Reasoning:
- Read, write, and represent numbers to 100 using concrete models, drawings, standard form, base-ten language, and equations in expanded form. (1.NR.1.1)
- Compose and decompose whole numbers from 1 through 99 in more than one way using tens and ones. (1.NR.1.3)
- Apply place value reasoning to identify the number that is one more and one less, ten more, and ten less than a given number with up to two digits. (1.NR.1.4)
- Count by ones forward or backward starting at any number up to 120, making accurate decade transitions. (1.NR.2.1)
- Skip count by fives and tens from any multiple of five to 100. (1.NR.2.2)
- Compare representations of two numbers up to 100 using the phrases is greater than, is less than, or is equal to (the same value as). (1.NR.3.1)
- Partition in multiple ways squares, rectangles, and circles into two or four equal-size parts (halves and fourths). (1.NR.4.1)
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Students can:
- Read, write, and represent numbers to 20 using concrete models, drawings, standard form, base ten language, and equations in expanded form.
- Apply place value reasoning to identify the number that is one more and one less than a given number up to 20.
- Count by ones forward or backward starting at any number up to 50 making accurate decade transitions.
- Skip count by 10s to 100.
- Compare representations of two numbers up to 20 using the phrases is greater than, is less than, or is equal to (the same value as).
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Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning:
- Compose and decompose numbers less than or equal to 20 in more than one way. (1.PAFR.1.2)
- Add and subtract number combinations flexibly and accurately within 10. (1.PAFR.1.4)
- Apply and explain the Commutative Property of Addition to find the sum (through 20) of two addends. (1.PAFR.1.5)
- Determine an unknown number in addition and subtraction equations within 10. (1.PAFR.1.6)
- Find the sum of a two-digit number and a one-digit number or a two-digit number and a multiple of 10 (1–99) using concrete models, drawings, and strategies. (1.PAFR.1.7)
- Create, describe, and extend (to the next term) a growing shape pattern. (1.PAFR.2.1)
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Students can:
- Compose and decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 in more than one way. Record each composition or decomposition as an equation.
- Apply and explain the Commutative Property of Addition to find the sum (through 10) of two addends and explain that the value does not change when the order of the two numbers changes.
- Solves addition and subtraction word problems within 10
- Counts on to add and counts back to subtract
- Adds and subtracts within 10
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Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning:
- Use analog and digital clocks to tell and record time to the hour and half hour. (1.MGSR.1.3)
- Identify and write the values of a coin or a bill using a ¢ or $ symbol. Limit to penny, nickel, dime, quarter, one-dollar, five-dollar, and ten-dollar bills. (1.MGSR.1.4)
- Count a collection of like coins to determine the total value of the set. Limit to pennies, nickels, and dimes with values not to exceed a dollar. (1.MGSR.1.5)
- Sort a mixed set of polygons and describe the reasoning used. (1.MGSR.2.1)
- Classify, analyze, and compare 2D and 3D shapes of assorted sizes and orientations using reasoning and formal mathematical language. Limit to triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus, hexagon, circle, cone, cube, cylinder, square pyramid, and sphere. (1.MGSR.2.4)
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Not assessed during this quarter
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Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning:
- Sort pictures or objects into at least three categories (not to exceed 10 items in each category). (1.DPSR.1.1)
- Create a survey question and collect data with up to three categories. Create charts and graphs with a single unit scale to display the data. Use the graph to draw conclusions. (1.DPSR.1.2)
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Not assessed during this quarter
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Science
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Report Card Language
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Applicable SC College & Career Ready Standards
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Expectations of a student meeting the grade-level standard
(at this point in the school year)
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Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
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- 1-PS4-1. Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
- 1-PS4-4. Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to communicate over a distance.
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With guidance and support, students can:
- Plan and conduct an investigation in which they collect and record observations about:
- vibrating materials causing sounds
- sounds causing materials to vibrate
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Social Studies
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Report Card Language
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Applicable SC College & Career Ready Standards
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Expectations of a student meeting the grade-level standard
(at this point in the school year)
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History: Identify similarities and differences between one's community and other South Carolina communities over time.
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- 1.H.1 Identify similarities and differences between one’s community and other South Carolina communities over time.
- 1.H.2 Analyze a current event in South Carolina and make predictions about possible outcomes.
- 1.H.3 Evaluate different sources of evidence used in historical inquiry, such as art, artifacts, digital sources, graphs, maps, oral histories, photographs/images, and texts.
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Students can:
- Identify at least one similarity and difference between one's community and other South Carolina communities over time.
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