AlbertaGrade 1
Alberta Grade 1 ELA Curriculum
Video lessons and practice for every Grade 1 English Language Arts topic. Aligned to what Alberta schools teach. Help your child build reading, writing, and speaking skills.
Alberta Grade 1 ELA Curriculum | StudyPugHelp
LO_ID | Learning Outcome-Skills & Procedures | StudyPug Topic |
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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 |