Oral Language - Grade 1 Students

​​​​​​Use informal, casual, formal, and academic language in the appropriate context (L.1.6; SL.1.1)

• Speak using the conventions of language
• Share information and ideas in discussion by following agreed-upon rules such as taking turns and listening to others
• Use questions and clarifying statements to repair a communication breakdown
• Draw conclusions orally while reading with an adult (e.g., “Why do you think that happened?”)
• Expand grade-appropriate vocabulary used in oral expression

Produce, expand, and rearrange complete sentences (L.1.1)

• Use pronouns as the object (me/her/him/us/them)¹
• Use the possessive case of pronouns²
• Use prepositions³
• Use adverbs that convey time
• Produce simple sentences with subject-verb agreement⁴
• Produce simple sentences with pronoun-antecedent agreement

English learner and bilingual footnotes

¹ Pronouns in Spanish do not always change based on use (e.g., “Give it to him” vs. “He eats”), so ELs are likely to make more errors than non-ELs.
² In Spanish, the possessive for he/she/it/they are the same. Spanish-speakers may say, “She spoke with his father,” instead of, “She spoke with her father.”
³ Developing knowledge of prepositions in a second language can take a long time
⁴ ELs may overgeneralize irregular past tense verbs.