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First Grade Curriculum

  • The UFLI Foundations logo features an open book with a bird above it.

     

    UFLI Foundations is an explicit and systematic program that teaches students the foundational skills necessary for proficient reading. It follows a carefully developed scope and sequence designed to ensure that students systematically acquire each skill needed and learn to apply each skill with automaticity and confidence. The program is designed to be used for core instruction in the primary grades.

  • A colorful educational book cover with various illustrations and the text 'myView Literacy'.

     

    Savvas myview Literacy provides comprehensive, explicit instruction grounded in the Science of Reading. myview allows us to teach reading and writing with a rich underpinning of research and rigor. Click on the student book image above for more information from the curriculum's website. 

  • The cover of a 'Go Math!' textbook features a nature-themed design.

     

    Go Math! provides a research-based instructional plan that includes a wide variety of strategies and activities to differentiate instruction so that all students can experience success in mathematics.  Go Math! includes daily intervention strategies for skills and for problem solving that diagnose students' difficulties while providing intervention resources that will bring success for all learners.  
     
    If your child needs extra support at home, click here to watch videos of each math lesson. 

  • Scholastic News cover features a crocodile's open mouth and a smiling child.

     

    Every issue of Scholastic News includes correlations to Florida state standards. 
    Build the Skills Your First Graders Need Most Scholastic News is built on a firm foundation of skills that reinforces your curriculum and supports state standards. Throughout the year, your students will develop cross-curricular knowledge as well as core reading and writing skills. Here are just a few of the skills and topics we'll be covering next year. 

     Science

    • Life cycles
    • Habitats
    • Characteristics of organisms
    • Earth and sky
    • Science as inquiry

    Social Studies

    • Culture
    • Long ago and today
    • U.S. history and symbols
    • Holidays
    • Reading a map

    Reading Comprehension

    • Main idea/detail
    • Sequencing
    • Predicting
    • Posing questions
    • Nonfiction text features

     Learning Development

    • Develop listening skills through shared reading.
    • Practice following directions.
    • Learn and use new content vocabulary.
    • Practice strategies to determine word meanings.

    Writing

    • Print words and sentences.
    • Recognize capitalization and punctuation.
    • Use graphic organizers.
    • Use interrogative and declarative statements.
    • Answer different types of written questions.