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Utah Standards

Utah 1st Grade ELA Standards

All 17 Utah English language arts standards for 1st grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Utah State Board of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

17 standards

Speaking and Listening

3 standards
1.SL.1
Hold conversations with different partners about topics and books, keeping the talk going with a friendly tone and body language and adding to what others say.
1.SL.2
Speak loudly and clearly enough to be understood when sharing thoughts and feelings and when asking or answering questions.
1.SL.3
Speak or present with fitting words, grammar, volume, and clear pronunciation, using a picture or display when it helps explain or clear things up.

Reading

9 standards
1.R.2
Work with spoken sounds by changing first or last sounds in words like stop, blending and splitting words of 4 or 5 sounds, and telling long vowels from short.
1.R.3
Read and spell words using the six syllable types, hard and soft c and g, digraphs like sh and th, endings like -ed and -ing, and two-syllable and common tricky words.
1.R.4
Read first-grade books accurately and smoothly enough to understand what they read.
1.R.5
Ask and answer questions to check understanding of the important details in a story or article.
1.R.6
Read stories and articles from many cultures, then retell what each is mostly about and its most important details.
1.R.7
Describe the characters, setting, and big events of a story, or the key facts in an informational text.
1.R.8
Find words and phrases that show feelings or appeal to the senses, like crunchy or giggled, and work out the meaning of subject-area words in a text.
1.R.9
Figure out unknown and multiple-meaning words with different strategies, like using clues in the sentence and spotting a root word in forms like jumped and jumping.
1.R.10
Recognize different kinds of texts and explain how stories differ from texts that give information.

Writing

5 standards
1.W.1
Write an opinion piece that names the topic, says what they think, gives reasons, and wraps up, using complete simple sentences and correct conventions.
1.W.2
Write to inform by introducing a topic, giving facts about it, and ending with a closing sentence, in complete simple sentences with correct conventions.
1.W.3
Write a story that retells two or more events in order with details and time words like first and then, ending with a closing sentence and correct conventions.
1.W.4
Join class research and writing projects, recalling what they did or learned and working with others at every step of writing.
1.W.5
Print every capital and lowercase letter neatly enough for others to read.

The official Utah documents

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