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Virginia Standards

1st Grade English SOL

All 19 Virginia English standards for 1st grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Virginia Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

19 standards

Foundations for Reading

2 standards
1.FFR.2
Pick out, blend and split each sound in spoken words with four or five sounds, including blends and digraphs, like f-r-o-g in frog or the five sounds in stamp.
1.FFR.3
Read and spell words like stamp, go and bike, decode vowel teams and r-controlled vowels like rain and car, split long words into syllables, and know sight words fast.

Developing Skilled Readers and Building Reading Stamina

1 standard
1.DSR
Reread decodable and grade-level books smoothly with expression, fix slips, use read-aloud details to back up answers with help, and hear sets of books on one topic.

Reading and Vocabulary

1 standard
1.RV.1
Work out new words from roots and endings like -s, -ing and -ed, use synonyms and opposites, tell shades of meaning like look and stare, and use new words in talk.

Reading Literary Text

2 standards
1.RL.1
Retell a familiar story in order with its lesson, name its characters, setting, problem and solution, answer who, what, why and how questions, and predict events.
1.RL.3
Set a purpose for reading with a guiding question and what they know, connect characters, settings and events, and compare what different characters go through.

Reading Informational Text

3 standards
1.RI.1
Ask and answer who, what, why and how questions about a nonfiction text, name its main idea and supporting details, and explain how a fact differs from an opinion.
1.RI.2
Use a table of contents, headings, bold words, captions and diagrams to find information, and tell what a picture shows apart from what the words say.
1.RI.3
Point out how two nonfiction texts on one topic are alike and different, and explain how two people, events or ideas in a text connect, like how rain helps a seed sprout.

Foundations for Writing

2 standards
1.FFW.1
Grip a pencil correctly and print every capital and lowercase letter and the numbers quickly and neatly, leaving clear spaces between words in phrases and sentences.
1.FFW.2
Spell words like crab, she and cake by sound, spell two-part words like pancake one syllable at a time, apply known patterns to new words, and spell sight words quickly.

Writing

3 standards
1.W.1
Draw, dictate and write to tell two or more events in order, share facts about a topic, give an opinion with a reason, and respond to books with details from the text.
1.W.2
With guidance, brainstorm, draw or fill in an organizer to plan, decide who the writing is for and why, and write a few on-topic sentences like Sam has a red kite.
1.W.3
With help from an adult, check and fix their writing for spelling, capital letters, word use and punctuation, like adding a missing period.

Language Usage

2 standards
1.LU.1
Build and expand simple sentences using plurals like boxes, pronouns like she and his, matching verbs in past, present and future, a, an and the, and question words.
1.LU.2
Capitalize sentence starts, names and the word I, end sentences with a period, question mark or exclamation point, and spell taught patterns and common tricky words.

Communication and Multimodal Literacies

2 standards
1.C.1
In pair, group and class discussions, listen closely, follow rules like no interrupting, build on what others say, ask questions for help, and speak in full sentences.
1.C.2
Describe people, places and events with clear details, speak loud and clear, recite poems and songs as a group, and retell or act out stories using first, next and last.

Research

1 standard
1.R.1
With help, ask research questions on a topic, gather facts from books, pictures and people, sort them in a chart, record them in words or drawings, and share in a group.

The official Virginia documents

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