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Assessing Student Learning

• Teachers collect information about what students know and can do in various was, including:
• Direct observations of performance
• Reviews of written work and assignments
• Formal assessments, including district and state-sponsored tests

In first grade, students build important reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. They continue to learn the letters and sounds that make up words. They think, talk, and write about what they read in stories, articles, and other sources of information. In their writing, students work on putting together clear sentences on a range of topics using a growing vocabulary.  Please go to the McGraw-Hill Wonders website to access any literacy or spelling homework. 

In first grade, students continue their math studies to work with whole numbers to quantify objects. They consider how numbers relate to one another. As they expand the set of numbers they work with, students start to develop critical concepts of ones and tens relate to each other allows students to begin adding and subtracting two-digit numbers, where thinking of ten ones as one ten and vice versa is routine.

Developmental Characteristics:  

First graders often ...

• Thrive on encouragement and are anxious to do well
• Rush to complete assignments, with speed valued more than quality
• Can be competitive and enthusiastic
• Like to explain things
• Enjoy learning through discovery

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