First Grade Readiness Guide
![Ready for 1st Grade?](https://3.files.edl.io/a1a9/20/04/21/155807-90af3c83-83fa-4ba6-a6d4-49df48d520e8.png)
Your child is ready to make the leap from Kindergarten to First Grade! This is a big, exciting transition, and we're here to help. Below are resources, links, and tools you can use to help make sure your child is set up for success as a First Grader.
- Clean your own personal space (learn by helping around the house!).
- Use the restroom and fasten all clothing items independently.
- Pack your backpack, open all lunch containers (juice boxes, etc) independently.
- Put papers into a folder and put the folder into your backpack independently.
- How To: Tie Your Shoes.
![Social Emotional Skills](https://3.files.edl.io/16a2/20/04/21/164118-780cef4b-5de5-4ed5-986b-8947c0d8db1b.png)
- Follow the social rules of conversation by listening and taking turns talking.
- Participate in shared reading and writing activities (for example, the teacher reads a big picture book aloud and students take turns sharing ideas about it).
- be willing to receive feedback and then try to adjust for improvement.
- participate in games with partners or small groups without much prompting (playing catch, jumping rope, imaginative games).
- In many situations, demonstrate a willingness to adjust behavior to resolve conflicts prior to asking for help from an adult.
![Reading Skills](https://3.files.edl.io/c6e8/20/04/21/155602-660e0fe5-784a-47fd-bdf0-66d0a455dfdf.png)
- Read regularly with your child.
- Discuss story elements such as plot, character, events, and setting.
- Recall the sequence of events in oral and written stories, and retell a story.
- Recognize all 26 letters and the sounds they make.
- Sight Words- recognize these 100 words on sight.
- Play games and use flashcards.
![Writing Skills](https://3.files.edl.io/e067/20/04/21/163836-8f8f4124-b441-4775-8069-b311708f19af.png)
- Understand basic punctuation (capitalize first letter of a sentence, use periods and question marks, etc.).
- Builds simple words and sentences using the sounds made by letters to "sound spell".
- Write and recognize all 26 letters.
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- Recognize and write numbers up to 100.
- “Skip Count” by fives and 10s to 100.
- Recognize that addition means putting two groups together and that subtraction means taking away from one group.
- Mentally add numbers to 10.
- Add and subtract within 20 using objects or drawings.
- Recognize shapes .
- Identify, describe, and reproduce patterns with numbers, shapes, colors, movements, or words.
![Fine Motor Skills](https://3.files.edl.io/c011/20/04/21/163917-1d687d9a-7d34-4281-9b87-22e705bb409d.png)
- Outline a shape/image with precision.
- Cut a shape with precision.
- Print all letters clearly.
- Demonstrate correct pencil grip.
![Gross Motor Skills](https://3.files.edl.io/d502/20/04/21/163938-48e72a59-deb7-4825-bf16-ba21888f48cc.png)
- Run, hop, jump, leap, slide, gallop, and skip.
- Combine two locomotor movements to form a pattern (skip, skip, jump, jump, repeat).
- Perform kicking, striking, throwing and catching patterns in a simple fluid environment (a throwing and catching game or a kicking game).
- Put together simple tumbling patterns that involve weight shift, rolling, and flight (hop, hop, hop, somersault, run and leap).
- Move to a simple rhythmic beat while recognizing the pattern.