End-of-year targets What most 1st graders can do by June. Every child grows at their own pace: use this list to celebrate progress and choose what to practice, not to rank.
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Reading Decodes short-vowel words, digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh, ck), blends, silent-e and common vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, ow) Reads two-syllable words by breaking them into parts Reads the year’s heart words automatically Reads grade-level books with accuracy, sensible expression and some fluency, rereading when something does not make sense Retells stories with key details and tells the central message Describes characters, setting and major events Finds key details and uses text features in informational books Asks and answers questions about what they read Math Adds and subtracts within 20 using strategies: counting on, making ten, doubles, fact families Adds and subtracts within 10 fluently Solves word problems: adding to, taking from, putting together, comparing Counts, reads and writes numbers to 120 Understands tens and ones (place value) and compares two-digit numbers with >, = and < Adds a two-digit number and a one-digit number or a ten, and finds 10 more and 10 less Measures length with same-size units and orders three objects by length Tells time to the hour and half hour Sorts and shows data in a simple graph and answers questions about it Names shapes by their attributes, builds shapes, and splits circles and rectangles into halves and fourths