Maryland ELA RL.1.10

ELA1st GradeReading Literature

The Standard

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

Maryland College and Career Ready Standards for English Language Arts (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students read a short story and a poem written for first graders, with teacher help when needed. They use letter sounds to work out words, reread lines, and talk about what they read.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student reads lines from both a story and a poem after hearing a teacher model them. They check the letters in an unfamiliar word, reread when a line does not make sense, and tell what each text is about.
Common Misconceptions: Some students guess a word from the picture without checking its letters. Others repeat a line the teacher read but cannot read it when they see it again.
How to Assess It: Model the first sentence of a three-sentence story and the first line of a four-line poem from your class reader. Ask each child to read the rest aloud and tell what each text is about.

Lesson moves

Give pairs letter tiles to build two tricky words from a class story, then have them find and read those words on the page.
After reading a short poem together, ask, 'What did you picture? Which words helped you?' Have partners point to the words.
Play echo reading with a story page: read one sentence aloud, have children repeat it, then ask them to reread it on their own.
Post a four-line playground rhyme beside a jump rope, and have children read it aloud before jumping to its beat.

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