End Of The Year Assessment
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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