Writing+and+Communication+Skills



**Here are some of the writing and communication skills that your child will learn in first grade:**

__**First Quarter**__  **__Second Quarter__**  **__Third Quarter__**  **__Fourth Quarter__**  
 * Build vocabulary by memorizing sight words (weekly word wall words)
 * Letter recognition
 * Initial consonant sounds
 * Color words, and number words
 * Rhyming words
 * Vowels
 * Syllables
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Word families
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Antonyms
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">ABC order
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Spelling
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Main idea of a story
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Sequencing pictures and parts of a story
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Identifying details, characters and setting in a story
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Knowing the difference between fact and fantasy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Reading comprehension and decoding skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Expository writing- 3 sentences
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Continue practice of first quarter skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Contractions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Compound words
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Synonyms
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Decoding skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Cause and Effect
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Narrative Writing- 3 sentences
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Continue practice of first and second quarter skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Homonyms
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Parts of speech
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Work on self-correction and reading on
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Predictions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Recalls written text
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Punctuation and capitalization
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Expository Writing- 6 sentences (with a beginning, middle and end)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Answering the 5 W's (who, what, when, where and why)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Review all skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Writing a complete story
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Expository Writing- 6 sentences (with a beginning, middle and end)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 133, 255);">Narrative Writing- 6 sentences

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