Author: Almond-Bancroft School District

Almond-Bancroft Elementary

First Grade
“I CAN”
Statements
You may be wondering what you should expect your child to learn this year. You will want to know how his/her learning growth measures up to state standards.
This brochure has your answers.

What are “I CAN” Statements?
I Can Statements:
Are set as goals for your child’s learning at his/her grade level
Ensure that teachers instruct skills and conepts appropriate to your child’s development
Help assess student achievement throughout the year
Allow your child’s teacher to better assist your child

Writing
Write for different reasons (story, report, opinion, “how-to”)
Research a question
Use a variety of sentences
Use capitalization, punctuation, and spacing in my writing
Use letter sounds to stretch out unknown words
Choose descriptive and interesting words
Edit with help
Publish my writing

Reading
Read and understand text
Read for different purposes
Read with appropriate speed and emotion
Self-correct
Ask and answer questions
Use illustrations and text to make predictions
Retell stories
Describe and compare characters, setting, and events
Identify who is telling the story
Use illustrations to understand the text
Use context clues to understand what I read
Identify main idea and retell key details of text
Use text features
Identify author’s purpose
Make connections between texts
Understand the parts of a sentence
Understand and apply short and long vowels within words
Put sounds together to make words
Use more than one way to figure out a word

Speaking and Listening
Participate in a respectful conversation
Talk in complete sentences
Ask and answer questions about a topic
Express my ideas and feelings
Describe people, places, things and events

Math
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Add and subtract within 20 fluently
Solve word problems
Solve equations with three addends
(2 + 3 + 4 = 9) (5 - 2 + 3 = 6)
Use and explain different strategies to solve addition and subtraction (count on, making ten, fact families, doubles)
Understand the relationship between addition and subtraction
Use math signs correctly (+,+-,+<,+>,+=)
Find the unknown number in an equation
(__ + 8 = 10) (6 - __ = 4)
Number Operations in Base Ten
Understand place value (tens, ones)
Count, read, and write numbers to 120
Compare two-digit numbers
Add within 100 (36 + 8 = ___)
Find 10 more or 10 less without counting
Subtract multiples of 10 (80 30=___)
Measurement and Data
Order objects by length
Measure with different tolls in different ways
Tell and write time in hours and half-hours
Use and interpret tally marks, pictographs, charts, and bar graphs
Name, count, and compare money
Geometry
Identify the characteristics of different shapes
Identify and use 2-D and 3-D shapes
Find halves, fourths, and quarters of circles and rectangles
Identify, create, and label patterns

Almond-Bancroft School District Almond, WI