First Grade

Curriculum Guide

9-WEEK BENCHMARK DOCUMENTS

PACING FOR THE YEAR

Theme 1

• Back to School
• All Together Now

Theme 2

• Surprise!

Theme 3

• Let's Look Around!

Theme 4

• Family and Friends

Theme 5

• Home Sweet Home
• Focus on Genre:  Poetry

Theme 6

• Animal Adventures

Theme 7

• We Can Work It Out

Theme 8

• Our Earth

Theme 9

• Special Friends
• Focus on Genre:  Folktales

Theme 10

• We Can Do It!
• Focus on Genre:  Plays

Resource Documents

Program Documents

• Comprehensive, School-Wide Literacy Program
• Literacy Teaching/Learning Model
• Houghton-Mifflin Model
• Four-Block and Houghton Mifflin

Federal Publications

• Put Reading First
• Focus on Fluency

Virginia Documents

• Grade 3 Reading Blueprint
• Grade 1 Curriculum Framework
• Sample Lessons, Oral Language
• Sample Lessons, Reading
• Sample Lessons, Writing

Montgomery County Documents

• 1st Grade SOL Card
• Phonics Card
• HM Expanded Spelling Word List
• 1st Grade High Frequency Word List
• Reading Structures
• Reading Strategies, expanded from DOE
• Writing Approaches
• Writing Strategies
• Oral Language Strategies
• Resource Suggestion Sheet
• 2nd Grade High Frequency Word List
• 3rd Grade High Frequency Word List

Elementary Curriculum Guide