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Kentucky Standards

Kentucky 1st Grade ELA Standards

All 34 Kentucky English language arts standards for 1st grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Kentucky Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

34 standards

Reading Foundational Skills

4 standards
RF.1.1
Spot the features that make a sentence, like a capital on the first word, spaces between words and a mark at the end.
RF.1.2
Hear and make rhymes, clap syllables, say the first, middle and last sounds in a short word like cat, and swap a sound to make a new word, like cat to hat.
Common Core RF.K.2
RF.1.3
Use digraphs like sh, silent e and vowel teams to read and spell, count syllables by vowel sounds, break two-syllable words apart with help, and read endings like -ing.
RF.1.4
Read many kinds of grade-level texts with purpose, reread aloud to build smoothness, use context to fix mistakes, and know tricky sight words like was on sight.

Reading Standards for Literature

9 standards
RL.1.1
With help, ask and answer questions about details stated in a story, and make inferences backed by clues in the text.
RL.1.2
With help, use key details from a story to explain the author's message, lesson or moral.
RL.1.3
Use key details to describe the characters, setting and big events of a story and how it develops.
RL.1.4
Point out words in stories or poems that show feelings or call up the senses, like sizzling or cozy, and use them to understand the text.
RL.1.5
Tell how stories, poems and plays differ in how they are built, like verses in a poem or lines for each speaker in a play.
RL.1.6
With help, figure out who is telling the story at different points in a text.
RL.1.7
Describe who is in a story, where it happens and what goes on, using its pictures and words as clues.
RL.1.9
Tell how the adventures of characters in two stories are alike and different, like two heroes who both face a wolf.
Common Core RL.1.9
RL.1.10
With help, listen to rich stories read aloud and draw on background knowledge and strategies, like picturing the scene, to make sense of them.

Reading Standards for Informational Text

10 standards
RI.1.1
With help, ask and answer questions about key facts in a nonfiction text, and make inferences backed by clues in it.
RI.1.2
With help, use key details from a nonfiction text to show what it is mostly about.
RI.1.3
With help, explain how people, events, ideas or facts in a nonfiction text connect to each other.
RI.1.4
Ask and answer questions to figure out what unfamiliar words and phrases in a grade-level text mean.
RI.1.5
Use text features like headings, bold print, captions, glossaries, indexes and menu icons to find key facts quickly.
RI.1.6
Tell which facts come from a book's pictures and which come from its words, like a photo showing a bird's colors while the text names its food.
Common Core RI.1.6
RI.1.7
Describe the key ideas of a nonfiction text using its pictures, diagrams and details.
RI.1.8
Name the claim in a nonfiction text and the reasons the author gives for it, like why kids should eat breakfast.
RI.1.9
Find information from two or more texts on the same topic or theme, like two articles about storms.
RI.1.10
With help, listen to rich nonfiction read aloud and use background knowledge and strategies, like connecting new facts to known ones, to understand it.

Handwriting

1 standard
HW.1.1
Print all capital and lowercase letters and the digits 0 to 9 neatly, forming each one correctly.

Composition

6 standards
C.1.1
Draw, dictate, write or type an opinion piece that introduces the topic, gives reasons with details, uses linking words, and ends with a closing, revising with help.
C.1.2
Draw, dictate, write or type to introduce a topic, give detailed facts, tie sentences and paragraphs together with words like also and next, and end with a closing.
C.1.3
Draw, dictate, write or type to tell one or more real or made-up events in order, with details, time words like then and later, and an ending, revising with help.
C.1.4
With adult help, make and publish work with a range of digital tools, sometimes working with classmates, like a class slideshow.
C.1.5
With help, join shared research and writing projects, like reading several books on one topic and writing about it together.
C.1.6
With help, gather information from everyday experiences or given sources to answer a question or raise new ones, like what bugs eat.

Language

4 standards
L.1.1
When writing or speaking, use nouns, pronouns, matching verbs in past, present and future, adjectives, conjunctions and prepositions, and all four sentence types.
L.1.2
When writing, capitalize names and dates, use end marks, put commas in dates and lists, spell common patterns and tricky words, and sound out new words, with help.
L.1.4
Figure out a new word from the sentence around it, use parts like un- and -ful as clues, and spot a root word like look inside looks, looked and looking.
Common Core L.1.4
L.1.5
With an adult's help, sort words into groups like colors and clothing, define a duck as a bird that swims, and act out how look, peek and stare differ.
Common Core L.1.5

The official Kentucky documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Kentucky's standards, not the official wording, which Kentucky Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.