AISL Grade 1 Benchmarks in English Language Arts

(Revised June, 2010)

• AISL.ELA.01 READING-FLUENCY: Students will read fluently using the skills and strategies of the reading process.
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• AISL.ELA.01.G1.01 Match oral words to printed words.
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• AISL.ELA.01.G1.02 Identify the title and author of a reading selection.
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• AISL.ELA.01.G1.03 Identify letters, words and sentences.
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• AISL.ELA.01.G1.04 Distinguish initial, medial and final sounds in single syllable words.
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• AISL.ELA.01.G1.05 Distinguish long-and-short vowel sounds in orally stated single-syllable words (e.g. bit/bite).
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• AISL.ELA.01.G1.06 Create and state a series of rhyming words, including consonant blends.
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• AISL.ELA.01.G1.07 Add, delete or change target sounds to change words e.g. change cow to how).
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• AISL.ELA.01.G1.08 Blend two or more phonemes into recognizable words (e.g. c/a/t = cat).
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• AISL.ELA.01.G1.09 Segment single-syllable words into their components (e.g. cat = c/a/t).
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• AISL.ELA.02 READING-COMPREHENSION: Students will comprehend, respond to, and analyze a wide variety of literary texts.
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• AISL.ELA.02.G1.01 Identify and describe the elements of plot, setting and character(s) in a story, as well as the story’s beginning, middle and ending
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• AISL.ELA.02.G1.02 Describe the role of authors and illustrators and their contributions to print materials.
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• AISL.ELA.02.G1.03 Recollect, talk and write about books read during the school year.
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• AISL.ELA.02.G1.04 Respond to who, what, when, where and how questions.
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• AISL.ELA.02.G1.05 Confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text by identifying key words.
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• AISL.ELA.02.G1.06 Relate prior knowledge to textual information.
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• AISL.ELA.02.G1.07 Retell the central ideas of simple expository or narrative passages.
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• AISL.ELA.03 READING-STRATEGIES: Students will apply skills and strategies appropriate for decoding reading of unfamiliar words in a variety of texts
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• AISL.ELA.03.G1.01 Generate the sounds from all the letters and letter patterns, including consonant blends and long and short vowel patterns (i.e. phonograms) and blend those sounds into recognizable words.
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• AISL.ELA.03.G1.02 Read common irregular sight words (e.g. , the, have, said, come)
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• AISL.ELA.03.G1.03 Read compound words and contractions.
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• AISL.ELA.03.G1.04 Read inflectional forms (e.g., -s, -ed, -ing) and root words (e.g., look, looked, looking).
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• AISL.ELA.03.G1.05 Read aloud with fluency in a manner that sounds like natural speech.
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• AISL.ELA.04 WRITING-MECHANICS: Students will write using the appropriate conventions of the English language.
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• AISL.ELA.04.G1.01 Demonstrate a correct use of standard writing conventions (e.g., spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar and usage, paragraphing) and use conventions effectively to enhance readability.
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• AISL.ELA.05 WRITING-CONTENT: Students will write with clarity and coherence in a wide variety of contexts.
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• AISL.ELA.05.G1.01 Write neatly and legibly
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• AISL.ELA.05.G1.02 Write complete and clear sentences.