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South Carolina Standards

South Carolina 1st Grade ELA Standards

All 43 South Carolina English language arts standards for 1st grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in South Carolina Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

43 standards

Overarching Expectations

6 standards
ELA.1.OE.1
Read and write for school tasks and personal interest over longer sittings, like reading a whole early reader or filling a journal page.
ELA.1.OE.2
Gather, sharpen and share knowledge using written, spoken, visual, digital and interactive texts, like a read-aloud, a class video or a reading app.
ELA.1.OE.3
Use clues to make inferences that help in understanding a text, like working out why a character is hiding.
ELA.1.OE.4
Cooperate with others and show active listening, like looking at the speaker and building on a partner's idea.
ELA.1.OE.5
Use evidence from a text to explain and support an answer, like reading aloud the sentence that shows why.
ELA.1.OE.6
Turn in quality work that follows an agreed format, like sentences that start with a capital and have neat spacing.

Foundations of Literacy

13 standards
ELA.1.F.1.2
Say strings of spoken words that start with the same sound, making up alliteration like five funny frogs.
ELA.1.F.1.3
Hear and say spoken rhyming pairs and tell them apart from pairs that do not rhyme, like bake and lake versus bake and bike.
ELA.1.F.1.4
Take away or add a syllable in a spoken word, including compound words, like saying cupcake without cup.
ELA.1.F.1.5
Blend and split the onsets and rimes in spoken words of more than one syllable, like joining /r/ /ab/ and /b/ /it/ to say rabbit.
ELA.1.F.1.7
Change a spoken word of three to five sounds by removing, adding or swapping its first or last sound, then say the new word, like stop to top.
ELA.1.F.2.1
Point out where a book shows its title, its table of contents and glossary, and who wrote and illustrated it.
ELA.1.F.3.4
Use vowel sounds to decode one-syllable words with blends, silent e and r-controlled vowels like car, and two-syllable words of common syllable types like robot.
ELA.1.F.3.6
Make new words by taking out, adding or changing the first, middle or last letters of a word, like changing sand to send or hand.
ELA.1.F.3.7
Read a two-syllable word by splitting it into its syllables first, like reading napkin as nap plus kin.
ELA.1.F.3.8
Read and spell words with blends, digraphs and trigraphs, silent e, r-controlled vowels, -s and -ed endings, contractions, soft c and g, final y and silent letters like kn.
ELA.1.F.4.1
Read first-grade high-frequency words quickly and correctly, like said, was, they and come.
ELA.1.F.4.2
Read texts aloud correctly, at a fitting speed and with expression, like pausing at commas and sounding curious at questions.
ELA.1.F.4.3
Read texts by sounding out and blending, comparing to known words, and using context and pictures to notice and fix mistakes.

Applications of Reading

14 standards
ELA.1.AOR.1.1
Name and describe a story's main elements, including the characters, the setting and the events that drive the plot.
ELA.1.AOR.1.2
Find figurative language like alliteration, sound words such as splash, describing words and imagery, and explain why the author used it.
ELA.1.AOR.2.1
Retell a story using its main elements and name the lesson it teaches, like being kind to a new friend.
ELA.1.AOR.2.2
Find the central idea of an informational text and the details that support it, like a text about how bees help flowers.
ELA.1.AOR.3.1
Tell who is narrating a story at different points, like a character or an outside narrator, and explain how you know.
ELA.1.AOR.4.1
Tell apart what readers learn from the pictures in a text and what they learn from its words.
ELA.1.AOR.5.1
Explain how texts that tell a story differ from texts that give information, like a fairy tale versus a book about whales.
ELA.1.AOR.5.2
Use captions, graphs, glossaries, tables of contents and maps to find key facts in a text quickly.
ELA.1.AOR.5.3
Tell facts from opinions about a topic in an informational text and explain the difference, like cats have fur versus cats are the best pets.
ELA.1.AOR.6.1
Retell a text aloud and in writing, covering the beginning, middle and end of a story, or the central idea and details of an informational text.
ELA.1.AOR.7.1
Work out word meanings using clues in the sentence, provided reference tools like a picture dictionary, and words learned from talk and read-alouds.
ELA.1.AOR.8.1
Judge how well an author's words work by asking about them, sorting them into groups, and defining them by group and traits, like a robin is a bird that sings.
ELA.1.AOR.9.1
Recognize and use spelling patterns and endings like -s, -ed and -ing that leave the base word unchanged, like jump and jumped.
ELA.1.AOR.10.1
Use pictures and photos to describe the key and supporting details in a text, like a photo that shows a seed sprouting.

Research

1 standard
ELA.1.R.1.1
Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why and how questions about printed and nonprinted sources, like a book or a video, to build knowledge.

Written and Oral Communications

9 standards
ELA.1.C.1.1
Write an opinion piece that states an opinion, gives reasons, uses simple linking words like because and also, and ends with a closing sentence.
ELA.1.C.2.1
Write an informational piece that names a topic, gives facts and details about it, and ends with a closing sentence, like a page about sharks.
ELA.1.C.3.1
Write a real or made-up story that tells events in order with time words, describes actions, thoughts and feelings, and gives a sense of ending.
ELA.1.C.4.1
Write correct statements, commands, questions and exclamations with capitalized names and dates, end marks, commas in lists and dates, colons in times, and matching subjects and verbs.
ELA.1.C.5.1
Make writing better by planning, revising and editing it and by building on their own ideas and classmates' ideas.
ELA.1.C.6.1
Print every capital and lowercase letter and leave the right amount of space between letters, words and sentences.
ELA.1.C.7.1
Share information aloud in order, speaking in complete sentences with clear words and a good volume and using words like and, then and after.
ELA.1.C.8.1
Take part in guided talks with classmates and adults about first-grade topics and books, greeting, taking turns, responding and restating what others say.
ELA.1.C.9.1
Listen carefully to others in order to ask and answer questions about a topic, like what a classmate learned about frogs.

The official South Carolina documents

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