CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.10

ELA1st GradeRange of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

The Standard

With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Literature

What This Standard Means

Students need to read and listen to first grade stories and poems with support. They should follow the plot, notice characters and feelings, hear rhythm or repeated language, and talk about what the text means. Support can include partner reading, teacher read-alouds, rereading, picture clues, and quick checks for meaning.

Mastery looks like a child staying with a grade-level story or poem, using clues when stuck, and explaining a simple idea from the text. Students often get stuck on stamina, decoding longer words, and retelling without mixing up events.

Ways to Teach It

Hands-on activity: Give pairs sentence strips from a familiar poem and have them rebuild it, then reread it together with expression.
Prompt: After reading a story, ask, “Which part should we read again, and what did you notice the second time?”
Quick assessment: Listen to each student read one page, then ask them to name a character and tell one thing that happened.
Real-world connection: Read a short poem from a greeting card or classroom calendar and ask students when people might use words like these.