Scope & Sequence
Grade 1
Unit 1: Picture Details
Develop visual discrimination by
• comparing shapes or pictures to find missing details
• using personal knowledge of details to complete familiar pictures
Unit 2: Picture Sequence
Represent the order of events by
• making a number line to represent logical progression
• relating a number line to a time line
• making a time line to represent daily events
• using a time line to sequence events in a story
• sequencing pictures to visualize a progression of events
Unit 3: Matching Pictures with Phrases
Understand that words and pictures are symbols by
• comparing actual information and objects to their symbols
• establishing the relationship between pictographs and symbols
• interpreting a pictograph that conveys a message
• connecting pictures with words
Unit 4: Titles/Main Ideas
Connect a title to the main idea by
• analyzing a picture for main idea and details
• expressing the main idea as a title
• inventing a title for a story, a song, and a picture
• selecting the title that best fits the content of a story or a picture
Unit 5: Visualizing Description
Visualize details by
• selecting an object or person from a group, based on description
• identifying characteristics of objects in descriptive phrases
• locating sensory descriptive words in sentences
• charting descriptions of objects according to the five senses
• writing descriptive sentences
Unit 6: Comparing and Contrasting
Identify similarities and differences by
• comparing observable characteristics of people, places, things, and events
• identifying seasonal words and seasonal differences
• relating the cyclical nature of the seasons to an analog clock
• using descriptive clues in illustrations and written description to compare seasons
Unit 7: Making Inferences
Make inferences about a story by
• identifying clues in stories that explain what happened and why it happened
• using prior knowledge to interpret clues in the story
• putting together clues during reading
• analyzing a character’s motivations in a story
• adjusting an inference as new clues are found
Unit 8: Using Context Clues to Infer
Use context clues to infer by
• linking clues in the text with personal knowledge to interpret the meaning
• using clue words to generate word associations
• applying knowledge of clues and associated words to complete sentences and picture sequences
• evaluating multiple clues in two or more related sentences
• using the story context to supply the missing clue words
Unit 9: Synonyms and Antonyms
Define synonyms and antonyms by
• identifying pictures/objects that are the same/different
• recognizing words that have similar meanings
• establishing the relatedness of similar objects or words by using a rating scale
• locating synonyms in sentences
• substituting synonyms for words in a sentence
• using word associations to identify synonyms and antonyms
• using context clues to determine synonyms and antonyms for specified words in sentences
Unit 10: Sequence in Stories
Establish a sequence of events by
• making a time line for a sequence of events
• putting pictures showing a sequence of events on a number line
• arranging sentences in sequence
• using prior knowledge about the logical progression of plot to sequence story events
