Language · Grade 1

Skills

• Follows a three-step instruction without repetition.
• Retells a story just heard, in order, with the main characters named.
• Recounts something that happened to them, in the right order, so a listener follows it.
• Asks a question when they do not understand, instead of staying silent.
• Recites a short memorised poem or rhyme in front of the class.
• Knows every letter–sound correspondence of the language, including the common digraphs.
• Blends sounds to decode an unfamiliar regular word without help.
• Reads a simple sentence aloud and understands what it says.
• Answers literal questions about a text just read (who, what, where).
• Handles books properly and returns them to their place.
• Forms every lower-case and capital letter correctly, in the right direction.
• Writes on the line, with spaces between words.
• Spells the most frequent words of the language correctly from memory.
• Attempts an unknown word phonetically rather than refusing to write it.
• Starts a sentence with a capital and ends it with a full stop.
• Uses question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
• Writes a few connected sentences about a real event.