Course Songs

Print all upper- and lowercase letters.

• ELA15 Capitalization
• M128 Square Roots & Radicals
• S97 Wood and Paper

Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (e.g., He hops; We hop).

• ELA175 Singular and Plural Nouns

Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns (e.g., I, me, my; they, them, their, anyone, everything).

• ELA151 Pronouns
• ELA228 Easy Words 4

Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future (e.g., Yesterday I walked home; Today I walk home; Tomorrow I will walk home).

• ELA41 Future Tense
• ELA96 Tenses

Use frequently occurring adjectives.

• ELA6 Adjectives

Use frequently occurring conjunctions (e.g., and, but, or, so, because).

• ELA25 Conjunctions

Use determiners (e.g., articles, demonstratives).

• ELA30 Demonstrative
• M128 Square Roots & Radicals

Use frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., during, beyond, toward).

• ELA74 Preposition

Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.

• ELA36 Exclamatory Interrogative Declarative
• ELA86 Sentence Structure
• ELA88 Simple Compound Complex

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

• ELA15 Capitalization
• ELA78 Punctuation I Know

Capitalize dates and names of people.

• ELA15 Capitalization

Use end punctuation for sentences.

• ELA78 Punctuation I Know

Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.

• ELA61 Misunderstood Words

Spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions.

• Sound it Out

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.

• ELA129 Homophones

Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

• ELA93 Syllables Affixs

Use frequently occurring affixes as a clue to the meaning of a word.

• ELA73 Prefix and Suffix

With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

• ELA226 Easy Words 2
• ELA227 Easy Words 3
• ELA228 Easy Words 4
• ELA229 Easy Words 5

Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

• ELA185 Sorting

Define words by category and by one or more key attributes (e.g., a duck is a bird that swims; a tiger is a large cat with stripes).

• ELA226 Easy Words 2
• ELA227 Easy Words 3
• ELA228 Easy Words 4
• ELA229 Easy Words 5