Grade One Overview

The new redesigned curriculum allows students to have more in-depth exploration
to gain deeper understanding so students are able to transfer learning and apply
learned knowledge to new contexts. The focus is on active engagement of students.
Literacy and numeracy are fundamental to all learning. While they are commonly
associated with language learning and mathematics, literacy and numeracy are
applied in all areas of learning.
Literacy is the ability to understand, critically analyze, and create a variety of
forms of communication, including oral, written, visual, digital, and multimedia, in
order to accomplish ones goals.

What to expect in the grade one curriculum.

Language Arts
Reading and Viewing
1. Literature Based Readers - retelling, sequencing, connecting to selfexperience
2. Library Books
3. Sight Words
4. Comprehension - Questions Yes/No, Who, What, When, Where,
Which,
Why, How?
5. Reading strategies- using clues to help decode words
6. Metacognition strategies - thinking skills

Phonics

1. Sounds of all letters in beginning, middle, and final position of the

word.
2. Blending letters together to form words.
3. Combinations of two or more letters to form a different sound.

Listening and Speaking

1. Listening skills
2. Following Directions

3. Oral: (Speaking) - sharing, Relating Experiences, retelling stories

Printing and Presenting

Neatness- Tall, straight letters
Letters close together within word
Words spaced (finger spaced)

Process Writing allowing students to develop good writing

skills with support throughout the different stages of writing.
The writing process is repeated throughout the year and across
various content areas (Social Studies and Sciences).
Sentence Structure: Capital letters, periods, etc.
Many researches have indicated that there is
that a child who is a poor reader and writer at
will continue to be a poor reader at the end of
chance they will continue to be a poor reader in

almost 90% chance

the end of Grade 1
Grade 4 and a 75%
high school.

Mathematics

Numeracy is the ability to understand and apply mathematical concepts,

processes, and skills to solve problems in a variety of contexts.

Number concepts to 20 (identifying and in combination)

Recognition of numbers and number names
Combinations / Separations of number facts to 20

-by automatic response (+) (-)

Counting to 100 - by one's, ten's, five's, two's (odd & even)

Place Values - tens and ones (relationship between tens and ones)
Measuring
Halves, Thirds, Quarters
Money- Canadian 5c, 10c, 25c, $1.00, $2.00
Word Problems
Patterning

 Time- telling time on the hour and on the half hour

Science

Living Things and how their features and behaviours help them to
survive in their environment
Matter and how they are useful to their properties
Light and sound (how they can be produced and how the
properties can be changed)
Observing patterns and cycles occur in the local sky and landscape

Many skills and processes were introduced in Kindergarten and grow in

sophistication through to Grade 12

Social Studies

Learning about our local environment

The rights, roles, and responsibility in building strong communities
Recognize and respect the diversity of individuals and care for
the local environment