Grade 1
Grade 1 English Language Arts
9 units and 56 learning lessons. This is the outline a Grade 1 student works through in English Language Arts — the lessons themselves are taught inside OHM School, adapted to how each child is doing.
About this outline: the listed lessons are part of the available learning path. A lesson appearing here does not mean its standards mapping or assessment evidence has completed educator review. See the evidence and review methodology.
Grade 1 English Language Arts
OHM School · Grade 1
English Language Arts
9 units · 56 lessons
It opens with Print and Sounds and closes with Speaking, Listening, and Language.
All units
All units
Lessons
Unit 1 of 9
Print and Sounds
3 lessons
Lessons
- 1Features of a Sentence
- 2Long and Short Vowel Sounds
- 3Blending and Segmenting Sounds
Unit 2 of 9
Phonics Blends and Digraphs
8 lessons
Lessons
- 1Beginning Consonant Blends
- 2Ending Consonant Blends
- 3Consonant Digraphs
- 4Long Vowel Patterns (Silent E)
- 5Vowel Teams
- 6Syllables in Words
- 7Word Endings -s, -ed, -ing
- 8Tricky Words
Unit 3 of 9
Decodable Readers and Fluency
3 lessons
Lessons
- 1Reading with Accuracy
- 2Reading Fluency
- 3Reading with Expression
Unit 4 of 9
Spelling Rules
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1Spelling Short Vowel Words
- 2Spelling Words with Blends and Digraphs
- 3Plural Nouns (-s and -es)
- 4Spelling with Patterns
Unit 5 of 9
Sentence Structure and Reading Comprehension
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1Complete Sentences
- 2Types of Sentences
- 3Main Idea and Key Details
- 4Sequencing Story Events
Unit 6 of 9
Reading Literature
9 lessons
Lessons
- 1Questions About Stories
- 2Retelling and the Lesson
- 3Characters, Settings, and Events
- 4Feeling and Sense Words
- 5Stories and Information Books
- 6Who Is Telling the Story?
- 7Pictures Help Us Understand
- 8Comparing Characters' Adventures
- 9Reading Stories and Poems
Unit 7 of 9
Reading Informational Text
9 lessons
Lessons
- 1Questions About Key Details
- 2Connecting Ideas
- 3Words in Nonfiction
- 4Text Features
- 5Pictures vs Words
- 6Illustrations and Key Ideas
- 7The Author's Reasons
- 8Comparing Two Texts
- 9Reading Informational Texts
Unit 8 of 9
Writing
6 lessons
Lessons
- 1Opinion Writing
- 2Informative Writing
- 3Narrative Writing
- 4Revising with Feedback
- 5Publishing with Digital Tools
- 6Shared Research
Unit 9 of 9
Speaking, Listening, and Language
10 lessons
Lessons
- 1Conversation Rules
- 2Listening for Key Details
- 3Describing with Details
- 4Complete Sentences When Speaking
- 5Kinds of Nouns
- 6Verbs and Time
- 7Adjectives and Joining Words
- 8Capitals, Commas, and End Marks
- 9Figuring Out Word Meanings
- 10Categories and Shades of Meaning
How it is taught
The whole subject, in the order a child meets it.
- What is covered9 units and 56 lessons, every one of them in the book above: this is the whole of English Language Arts in Grade 1, not a sample.
- Taught in orderA lesson unlocks when the one before it is mastered, and review is scheduled from what the child has actually shown rather than on a fixed timetable.
- Kept currentThese titles are read from the live curriculum, so what is in this book is what a Grade 1 student would work through today.
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