Common Core State Standards

With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed.

Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.

Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood.

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Ask questions to clear up any confusion about the topics and texts under discussion.

Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).

Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., because).

Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy).

With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.