English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 1
Strand - Writing
Cluster - Text Types and Purposes
[W.1.2] - Write informative/explanatory texts that name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
- Evidence
Empirical data or other sources of support (e.g., mathematical proofs) for a claim; may be selected, presented, and evaluated differently by different audiences and in different subject areas according to the norms of disciplinary literacy. See Text Types and Purposes for Argument. - Explanation
Is designed to make a subject, concept, or process clear and understandable to the intended audience using one or more of the following methods: identification, definition, classification, illustration, comparison, and/or analysis - Grade 1 Annotated Informational Essay
- Grade 1 Unmarked Informational Essay
- Summary
An account of a text’s main points, disregarding unimportant details and usually employing the same order of events or topics as the source text. Summarizing is a basic reading technique that consolidates and demonstrates understanding of a text’s overall meaning. See Synthesis. - Text types and purposes
The Writing Standards of this Framework emphasize three types of writing that are widely used in college study, careers, and civic participation. Many successful pieces of writing combine different text types in a single piece; for example, an argument may include a short narrative anecdote as evidence.
[W.1.4] -
Produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in Standards 1-3 above.)
[1.PS.4.1] -
Demonstrate that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
Clarification Statements: Examples of vibrating materials that make sound could include tuning forks, a stretched string or rubber band, and a drum head; Examples of how sound can make materials vibrate could include holding a piece of paper near a speaker making sound and holding an object near a vibrating tuning fork.
[1.PS.4.3] -
Conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing materials that allow light to pass through them, allow only some light through them, block all the light, or redirect light when put in the path of a beam of light. Clarification Statements: Effects can include some or all light passing through, creation of a shadow, and redirecting light; Quantitative measures are not expected.
[1.PS.4.4] -
Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to send a signal over a distance.*
Clarification Statements: Examples of devices could include a light source to send signals, paper cup and string “telephones,” and a pattern of drum beats; Technological details for how communication devices work are not expected.