First Grade Benchmarks

Reading/Language Arts

1. Recognizes alphabet upper and lower case letters  100%
2. Recognizes and uses beginning and ending sounds  90%
3. Blends sounds into words using short vowels  100%
4. Reads successfully a book at grade level  90%
5. Recognizes high frequency words out of context  100%
6. Writes a sentence using capital letter, correct punctuation and spacing  90%

Math

1. Recognizes numbers 1 to 100
2. Solves addition facts 0 to 9
3. Solves subtraction facts 0 to 9
4. Writes numbers to 100 by 1's, 5's, 10's
5. Recognizes coins (penny, nickel, dime, quarter)
6. Completes a pattern

Students must achieve 100% on all math assessments.