Grade 1 Curriculum
Below are skills needed, with links to resources to help with that skill. We also encourage plenty of exercises and book work. Curriculum Home
Important: this is a guide only.
Check with your local education authority to find out their requirements.
Grade 1 | Counting
Count the items in a collection and know the last counting word tells how many items are in the collection (1 to 100)
Draw pictures or other informal symbols to represent a spoken number up to 20
Write numbers to 100
Read the number words one, two, three to ten
Count out (produce) a collection of a specified size (10 to 100 items), using groups of ten
Name the number before and the number after a given number, and name the number(s) between two given numbers up to 100 (with and without the use of a number line or a hundreds chart)
Use before, after, or between to order numbers to 100 (with or without the use of a number line)
Use the words higher, lower, greater, and less to compare two numbers
Use and understand verbal ordinal terms, first to twentieth
Quickly see and label with a number, collections of 1 to 10
Count by 1's to 100
Skip count by 10's to 100
Skip count by 5's to 50
Skip count by 2's to 20
Verbally count from a number other than one by 1's
Count backwards from 20 by 1's
Skip count multiples of 10 by 10's to 1,000
Grade 1 | Addition
Understand the commutative property of addition
Develop and use strategies to solve addition word problems
Represent addition word problems and their solutions as number sentences
Use a variety of strategies to solve addition problems with one and two-digit numbers without regrouping
Demonstrate fluency and apply addition facts to and including 10
Understand that different parts can be added to get the same whole
Grade 1 | Subtraction
Develop and use strategies to solve subtraction word problems
Represent subtraction word problems and their solutions as number sentences
Use a variety of strategies to solve subtraction problems with one and two-digit numbers without regrouping
Demonstrate fluency and apply subtraction facts to and including 10
Grade 1 | Numbers
Arrange objects in size order (increasing and decreasing)
Compare and order whole numbers up to 20
Use a variety of strategies to compose and decompose one-digit numbers
Recognize the difference between numbers, numerals and digits.
Grade 1 | Measurement
Recognize length as an attribute that can be measured
Select and use non-standard units to estimate measurements
Use non-standard units (including finger lengths, paper clips, students' feet and paces) to measure both vertical and horizontal lengths
Informally explore the standard metric unit of measure (meter)
Informally explore the US standard unit of measure (foot)
Grade 1 | Time
Classify months and connect to seasons and other events
Recognize specific times (morning, noon, afternoon, evening)
Tell time to the hour, using both digital and analog clocks
Know the days of the week and months of the year in sequence
Grade 1 | Geometry (Plane)
Match shapes and parts of shapes to justify congruency
Experiment with slides, flips, and turns of two-dimensional shapes
Identify symmetry in two-dimensional shapes - lines of symmetry.
Recognize, name, describe, create, sort, and compare two-dimensional shapes
Direction: Up, Down, Left, Right
Grade 1 | Geometry (Solid)
Recognize, name, describe, create, sort, and compare three-dimensional shapes
Recognize geometric shapes and structures in the environment
Grade 1 | Pre-Algebra
Determine and discuss patterns in arithmetic (what comes next in a repeating pattern, using numbers or objects)
Create problem situations that represent a given number sentence
Grade 1 | Data
Pose questions about themselves and their surroundings
Collect and record data related to a question
Display data in bar graphs using concrete objects with intervals of one
Interpret data in terms of the words: most, least, greater than, less than, or equal to
Answer simple questions related to data displayed in pictographs (e.g., Category with most? How many more in one category compared with another? How many altogether in two categories?)
Construct questions that can be answered by using information from a data graph
Grade 1 | Estimation
Estimate the number in a collection to 50 and then compare by counting the actual items in the collection
Grade 1 | Probability
Discuss conclusions and make predictions in terms of the words likely and unlikely
Grade 1 | Money
Know and recognize coins
Recognize the cent notation.
Use different combinations of coins to make money amounts up to 25 cents