AlbertaGrade 1
AB Grade 1 English Curriculum
Lessons and practice for every Grade 1 English topic. Aligned to what Alberta schools teach. Help your child build reading, writing, and oral language skills.
AB Grade 1 English Curriculum | StudyPugHelp
LO_ID | Learning Outcome-Skills & Procedures | StudyPug Topic |
|---|---|---|
ELA.1.OL.1 | Oral traditions and kinship recognition: Practice listening and speaking skills through sharing oral stories and recognize kinship in variety of oral stories |
ELA.1.OL.2 | Cultural awareness and story protocols: Discuss special rules protocols about how when or with whom stories are shared in communities |
ELA.1.OL.3 | Voice modulation and speaking techniques: Share experiences ideas and information with appropriate volume tone and pace adjusted for variety of situations |
ELA.1.OL.4 | Active listening and conversation participation: Ask questions to clarify information during discussions and contribute to discussions as listener and speaker |
ELA.1.OL.5 | Instruction comprehension and task completion: Listen to and follow two-step instructions while maintaining attention and focus during listening activities |
ELA.1.OL.6 | Communication awareness and body language: Examine verbal and non-verbal language appropriate for variety of situations including eye contact movements and facial expressions |
ELA.1.OL.7 | Collaborative speaking and performance skills: Present stories songs poems or dramatizations individually or as part of group with appropriate expression |
ELA.1.TF.1 | Purpose recognition and message classification: Discuss reasons for messages to be shared and identify messages that provide enjoyment learning or safety |
ELA.1.TF.2 | Genre identification and content classification: Describe differences between messages that are imaginary fiction or real non-fiction and discuss their purposes |
ELA.1.TF.3 | Print recognition and community literacy: Identify messages in variety of environmental print including signs symbols and words in community settings |
ELA.1.TF.4 | Concepts of print and reading mechanics: Read print from left to right with return sweep and read print with accurate one-to-one word matching |
ELA.1.TF.5 | Narrative organization and story components: Identify beginning middle and ending in message and describe story elements within variety of imaginary stories |
ELA.1.TF.6 | Story elements and narrative analysis: Describe story elements including characters setting and events and examine information provided by narrator |
ELA.1.TF.7 | Visual literacy and text organization: Examine variety of features that help clarify messages and include variety of features to organize personal messages |
ELA.1.TF.8 | Fiction genres and story types: Create imaginative representations or dramatizations of stories that include characters setting and events |
ELA.1.TF.9 | Non-fiction organization and information sharing: Examine ways that information can be organized and shared to support learning through various text structures |
ELA.1.TF.10 | Poetic elements and creative language: Share connections between personal experiences and poetry and determine if poem rhymes or does not rhyme |
ELA.1.V.1 | Academic vocabulary and word meaning: Confirm word meanings in variety of ways and identify meaning of tier 2 words and use them in sentences |
ELA.1.V.2 | Subject-specific vocabulary from read-alouds: Use tier 3 words in discussions and transfer understandings of words to different situations |
ELA.1.V.3 | Word relationships and meaning connections: Recognize that words can be replaced with synonyms and investigate antonyms when comparing words |
ELA.1.V.4 | Morphological awareness and word structure: Identify words according to their base and recognize suffixes in oral or written language |
ELA.1.V.5 | Morpheme manipulation and word changes: Add or remove suffixes to make words plural or singular and add or remove suffixes to change tense of words |
ELA.1.V.6 | Word construction and meaning relationships: Recognize compound words and describe changes in meaning when two words are combined to form compound word |
ELA.1.PA.1 | Sound repetition and phonemic awareness: Generate alliterative words and phrases and recall simple songs or poems that contain alliterative elements |
ELA.1.PA.2 | Rhyme recognition across syllable patterns: Generate rhyming words that have up to three syllables and recognize rhyming in variety of oral language contexts |
ELA.1.PA.3 | Word segmentation and component recognition: Identify individual words in compound words and blend two words to form compound words |
ELA.1.PA.4 | Syllable awareness and word division: Identify syllables in words that have three or more syllables and blend syllables in two to three syllable words |
ELA.1.PA.5 | Sound manipulation and word building: Segment sounds of words containing up to five phonemes and blend sounds in words with up to five phonemes |
ELA.1.PA.6 | Phoneme manipulation and word changes: Add delete and substitute sounds at beginning middle or ending of words to create new words |
ELA.1.P.1 | Letter identification and case distinction: Recognize both upper case and lower case letters of alphabet fluently and distinguish between consonants and vowels |
ELA.1.P.2 | Phonemic awareness and symbol recognition: Make connections between letters and sounds in words and associate sounds to letters and letter sequences |
ELA.1.P.3 | Phonetic decoding in all positions: Read and write consonant sounds in beginning middle and ending of words using letters that represent them |
ELA.1.P.4 | Digraph recognition and application: Read and write two consonant letters that represent one sound at beginning middle and ending of words |
ELA.1.P.5 | Vowel recognition and letter correspondence: Identify short vowel sounds in words and identify letters that represent them throughout word positions |
ELA.1.P.6 | Vowel pattern awareness and identification: Identify long vowel sounds in words and identify letters that represent them in various patterns |
ELA.1.P.8 | Phonetic pattern application and decoding: Read one to two syllable words that include 60 most frequent letter-sound correspondences with accuracy |
ELA.1.F.1 | Fluent letter recognition and automaticity: Identify all 26 letters of alphabet quickly and accurately to support fluent reading development |
ELA.1.F.2 | Phoneme synthesis and word recognition: Blend sounds in words with speed and accuracy to decode unfamiliar words encountered in text |
ELA.1.F.3 | Sight word mastery and instant recognition: Read 125 high-frequency words automatically and read high-frequency words in sentences and texts |
ELA.1.F.4 | Prosody development and expression: Read phrases smoothly taking punctuation into consideration and read texts aloud with appropriate expression |
ELA.1.C.1 | Listening comprehension and response: Listen to variety of fictional and informational texts read aloud and respond to texts through discussions |
ELA.1.C.2 | Emergent reading and meaning construction: Read simple fully predictable and decodable texts independently and understand words and sentences |
ELA.1.C.3 | Reading strategies and problem solving: Solve unknown words using chunking stretching and manipulating sounds and self-correct when text doesn't make sense |
ELA.1.C.4 | Content comprehension and information extraction: Discuss main idea of variety of texts and identify key ideas and details from texts |
ELA.1.C.5 | Narrative comprehension and story recall: Sequence four to six events from text and retell beginning middle or ending of text |
ELA.1.C.6 | Story elements and narrative analysis: Retell or dramatize story including characters and setting and interpret information from illustrations |
ELA.1.C.7 | Theme recognition and value identification: Identify moral or lesson of story and connect story messages to personal experiences |
ELA.1.C.8 | Meaning making and text-to-self connections: Share personal connections to ideas or information in texts and identify similarities between texts |
ELA.1.C.9 | Inquiry skills and information seeking: Ask questions to clarify information in texts and locate information in texts to answer questions |
ELA.1.C.10 | Comprehension levels and response types: Answer questions requiring literal recall and understanding and answer questions requiring opinions about information |
ELA.1.C.11 | Predictive thinking and text engagement: Make predictions prior to and while reading using title pictures and background knowledge |
ELA.1.W.1 | Writing development and communication purpose: Create written messages that align with intended audience or purpose using variety of forms |
ELA.1.W.2 | Pre-writing strategies and logical sequencing: Generate ideas that can be expressed through messages and combine ideas in logical sequence |
ELA.1.W.3 | Sentence formation and thought expression: Write sentences that contain complete thoughts and make sense with proper structure |
ELA.1.W.4 | Planning drafting editing and sharing: Edit written work for spelling grammar and punctuation and share messages with others including own name |
ELA.1.W.5 | Creative writing and personal voice development: Collect ideas inspired by variety of experiences and express ideas through variety of written forms |
ELA.1.W.6 | Descriptive writing and creative enhancement: Identify effective use of sensory language in texts and include sensory language to enhance creative writing |
ELA.1.W.7 | Information literacy and inquiry skills: Ask questions to identify research topics and gather factual information from variety of sources |
ELA.1.W.8 | Research skills and data management: Use organizational tools to record information and record factual information in various ways |
ELA.1.W.9 | Technology integration and writing mechanics: Print letters and words with appropriate size and spacing and locate letter keys on keyboard |
ELA.1.Conv.1 | Proper capitalization and writing conventions: Apply capital letters when writing first and last names first word of sentence names of places |
ELA.1.Conv.2 | Extended capitalization rules and application: Apply capital letters when writing days of week and months and other familiar proper nouns |
ELA.1.Conv.3 | Punctuation conventions and sentence completion: Identify and use end punctuation in sentences including periods question marks and exclamation marks |
ELA.1.Conv.4 | Grammar concepts and sentence structure: Recognize sentences that include complete thought and differentiate between telling and asking sentences |
ELA.1.Conv.5 | Parts of speech and grammar foundations: Differentiate between nouns and verbs and recognize nouns as persons places things or animals |
ELA.1.Conv.6 | Pattern-based spelling and word families: Recognize letter patterns in words and apply spelling patterns to spell unfamiliar words |
ELA.1.Conv.7 | Foundational spelling patterns and application: Apply vowel-consonant consonant-vowel-consonant and vowel-consonant-silent e patterns in spelling |
ELA.1.Conv.8 | Sight word spelling and irregular word recognition: Spell 125 high-frequency words and examine words that are not spelled in predictable ways |
ELA.1.Conv.9 | Spelling techniques and word learning approaches: Say words slowly to identify sounds and use visualization and variety of supports for spelling |
ELA.1.Conv.10 | Spelling rules and phonetic understanding: Include vowel in every word and attempt to spell unknown words using letter-sound relationships |
AB Grade 1 English Curriculum Overview
Alberta's Grade 1 English curriculum gives students the building blocks they need for a lifetime of reading and writing. StudyPug covers every strand — from oral language and phonemic awareness to reading comprehension and written composition — so students have support for every skill they encounter in class.
Oral Language and Storytelling
Grade 1 students in Alberta learn to listen actively, speak clearly, and share ideas in a variety of situations. Topics include following two-step instructions, adjusting volume and tone for different audiences, asking questions during discussions, and presenting stories, songs, or poems with appropriate expression. StudyPug provides guided practice and worked examples to help students build confidence in speaking and listening.
Phonics and Word Study
Phonics is a core focus in Grade 1. Alberta students learn to:
- Recognize all 26 upper and lower case letters fluently
- Identify short and long vowel sounds and the letters that represent them
- Read and write consonant sounds in beginning, middle, and ending positions
- Blend sounds in words with up to five phonemes
- Add, delete, and substitute sounds to create new words
- Spell 125 high-frequency words automatically
Step-by-step lessons walk students through each phonics concept with clear explanations and plenty of practice exercises.
Reading Comprehension
Grade 1 readers in Alberta move from simple decodable texts to identifying story elements, retelling events, and making predictions. Students learn to sequence four to six events, identify characters and settings, connect stories to personal experiences, and ask questions to clarify information. StudyPug supports each of these skills with practice problems and guided explanations.
Writing and Composition
Grade 1 writing in Alberta covers sentence structure, capitalization, end punctuation, and spelling patterns. Students practise printing letters with appropriate size and spacing, writing complete sentences, editing for grammar and spelling, and using sensory language in creative writing. Every writing topic in the Alberta curriculum is addressed through clear, student-friendly lessons.
Vocabulary Development
Alberta's Grade 1 English curriculum builds vocabulary through exploration of synonyms, antonyms, compound words, suffixes, and tier 2 and tier 3 words. Students learn to confirm word meanings in a variety of ways and transfer their understanding to new situations. Practice exercises reinforce each vocabulary concept so students can use new words with confidence.