Only Grade 1 english language arts is shown here. Current and transition frameworks remain separate. A provisional target is not proof that every clause is taught or assessed.
English language arts · 2017 framework
Grade 1 · 41 / 46 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ela-2017:RL.1.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. |
| ela-2017:RL.1.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze literary text development. |
| ela-2017:RL.1.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. |
| ela-2017:RL.1.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. |
| ela-2017:RL.1.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types. |
| ela-2017:RL.1.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text. |
| ela-2017:RL.1.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events. |
| ela-2017:RL.1.8 | Not applicable at this grade | (Not applicable to literature) |
| ela-2017:RL.1.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories. |
| ela-2017:RL.1.10 | Provisional target; review pending | With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1. Activate prior knowledge and draw on previous experiences in order to make text-to-self or text-to-text connections and comparisons. |
| ela-2017:RI.1.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. |
| ela-2017:RI.1.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze informational text development. |
| ela-2017:RI.1.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. |
| ela-2017:RI.1.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text. |
| ela-2017:RI.1.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text. |
| ela-2017:RI.1.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text. |
| ela-2017:RI.1.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas. |
| ela-2017:RI.1.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text. |
| ela-2017:RI.1.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures). |
| ela-2017:RI.1.10 | Provisional target; review pending | With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1. |
| ela-2017:RF.1.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print by recognizing the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation). |
| ela-2017:RF.1.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and phonemes (sounds). |
| ela-2017:RF.1.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. |
| ela-2017:RF.1.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. |
| ela-2017:W.1.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write opinion pieces that introduce the topic or name the book being written about, express an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure. |
| ela-2017:W.1.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Write informative/explanatory texts that name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure. |
| ela-2017:W.1.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Write narratives to recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure. |
| ela-2017:W.1.4 | Not applicable at this grade | (Begins in grade 3) |
| ela-2017:W.1.5 | Provisional target; review pending | With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed. |
| ela-2017:W.1.6 | Provisional target; review pending | With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. |
| ela-2017:W.1.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of "how-to" books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions). |
| ela-2017:W.1.8 | Provisional target; review pending | With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. |
| ela-2017:W.1.9 | Not applicable at this grade | (Begins in grade 4) |
| ela-2017:W.1.10 | Not applicable at this grade | (Begins in grade 3) |
| ela-2017:SL.1.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Participate in collaborative conversations about grade 1 topics and texts with diverse partners in small and larger groups. |
| ela-2017:SL.1.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented in various media and other formats (e.g., orally). |
| ela-2017:SL.1.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood. |
| ela-2017:SL.1.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly. |
| ela-2017:SL.1.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. |
| ela-2017:SL.1.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation. (See grade 1 Language standards 1 and 3 for specific expectations.) |
| ela-2017:L.1.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. |
| ela-2017:L.1.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. |
| ela-2017:L.1.3 | Not applicable at this grade | (Begins in grade 2) |
| ela-2017:L.1.4 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:L.1.5 | Provisional target; review pending | With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. |
| ela-2017:L.1.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., because). |
English language arts · 2026 framework
Grade 1 · 44 / 49 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ela-2026:RL.1.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Ask and answer questions about key details in a literary text (e.g., story, drama, poem). |
| ela-2026:RL.1.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate understanding of literary texts by retelling stories with key details and explaining the central message or lesson. |
| ela-2026:RL.1.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe characters, settings, and major events using key details, and tell how these elements contribute to the story. |
| ela-2026:RL.1.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify and explain words and phrases in literary texts that describe feelings or sensory experiences and discuss how they help the reader understand the story. |
| ela-2026:RL.1.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Explain the differences between literary and informational texts by identifying their purpose, structure, and key features. |
| ela-2026:RL.1.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify who is telling the story at various points in a literary text and explain how the narrator or speaker affects the story. |
| ela-2026:RL.1.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Use illustrations and key details to describe characters, settings, and major events and tell how the visuals support understanding of the story. |
| ela-2026:RL.1.8 | Not applicable at this grade | (Not applicable to literature) |
| ela-2026:RL.1.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in literary texts. |
| ela-2026:RL.1.10 | Provisional target; review pending | With adult support, utilize background knowledge and draw on previous experiences to describe or compare details across grade-appropriate literary texts. |
| ela-2026:RI.1.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Ask and answer questions about key details in an informational text (e.g., historical, scientific, or technical text). |
| ela-2026:RI.1.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Retell facts and ideas from an informational text, including the main topic and key details. |
| ela-2026:RI.1.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in an informational text. |
| ela-2026:RI.1.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Ask and answer questions to determine the meaning of unknown or essential vocabulary words in an informational text. |
| ela-2026:RI.1.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Use text features (such as headings, table of contents, glossaries, and icons) to locate and understand key facts or information in an informational text. |
| ela-2026:RI.1.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Distinguish between information provided by illustrations and information provided by words and explain how each contributes to understanding the topic. |
| ela-2026:RI.1.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Use the illustrations and details in an informational text to describe and understand its key ideas. |
| ela-2026:RI.1.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify the evidence an author gives in an informational text and tell how they support key ideas. |
| ela-2026:RI.1.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify and describe basic similarities and differences in the information, illustrations, or procedures between two informational texts on the same topic. |
| ela-2026:RI.1.10 | Provisional target; review pending | With scaffolding provided, use background knowledge and previous experiences to describe or compare details in grade-appropriate informational texts. |
| ela-2026:RF.1.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of a sentence: |
| ela-2026:RF.1.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify, produce, and manipulate the sound structures of spoken words, including syllables and phonemes (sounds), with automaticity: |
| ela-2026:RF.1.3 | Provisional target; review pending | |
| ela-2026:RF.1.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Read connected texts aloud with sufficient fluency to support comprehension: |
| ela-2026:WF.1.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Print all lowercase and uppercase graphemes (letter/letters) independently, accurately, and with automaticity. Demonstrate this through: |
| ela-2026:WF.1.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Encode words aligned with phonics patterns in scope and sequence of adopted HQIM, such as: • Short vowel • Long vowel in one-syllable words • Consonant digraphs • Consonant blends • Vowel-consonant-e (VCe) (e.g., same), pine) • FLOSS rule (f, l, s, z doubling) (e.g., stuff), jazz) • Common inflectional suffixes (e.g., helps, helped, helping) |
| ela-2026:WF.1.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Print a simple sentence independently and accurately using grade-appropriate orthographic patterns, rules and high-frequency words with: |
| ela-2026:W.1.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write opinion pieces with a clear topic, stated opinion, reasons, and closure. |
| ela-2026:W.1.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Write informative/explanatory pieces with a clear topic, facts, and closure. |
| ela-2026:W.1.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Write a personal or fictional narrative with a clear topic, at least two events in order, details about what happened, temporal words to show sequence, and some sense of closure. |
| ela-2026:W.1.4 | Not applicable at this grade | (Begins in Grade 3) |
| ela-2026:W.1.5 | Provisional target; review pending | With adult support, respond to questions and suggestions and add details to strengthen ideas in writing by revising and editing. |
| ela-2026:W.1.6 | Provisional target; review pending | With adult support, explore a variety of tools to produce and publish writing, working both individually and in collaboration with peers. |
| ela-2026:W.1.7 | Provisional target; review pending | With adult support, recall information from experiences or gather information from sources to provide a written response to a question. |
| ela-2026:W.1.8 | Provisional target; review pending | With adult support, engage in collaborative research or writing projects that build language, vocabulary, and foundational writing skills around a topic or theme by: |
| ela-2026:W.1.9 | Not applicable at this grade | (Begins in Grade 4) |
| ela-2026:W.1.10 | Not applicable at this grade | (Begins in Grade 3) |
| ela-2026:SL.1.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Participate in discussions about first grade topics and texts in pairs, small groups, or whole-class settings: |
| ela-2026:SL.1.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Answer questions about the main topic and key details of a text read aloud or information presented in various media and other formats, requesting clarification if something is not understood. |
| ela-2026:SL.1.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Ask questions about what a speaker says to obtain more information or clarify points that are unclear. |
| ela-2026:SL.1.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Clearly describe people, places, things and events with relevant details. |
| ela-2026:SL.1.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Create or use visual displays to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. |
| ela-2026:SL.1.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Produce complete sentences appropriate to a task or situation. |
| ela-2026:L.1.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Know and apply formal American English grammar, usage, and mechanics when writing or speaking. |
| ela-2026:L.1.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Recognize and/or apply the conventions of formal American English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. |
| ela-2026:L.1.3 | Not applicable at this grade | (Begins in Grade 2) |
| ela-2026:L.1.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Ask and answer questions about unknown words and phrases in discussions or texts. |
| ela-2026:L.1.5 | Provisional target; review pending | With adult support, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. |
| ela-2026:L.1.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Apply previously taught vocabulary in a given context by: |