1st Grade CCSS: Language

For first graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the rules for using the English language, including vocabulary use and language conventions, in order to improve their skills as writers and readers. Among the complete standards for this grade, first graders will be asked to: print all upper- and lowercase letters, properly use the plural form of common, proper, and possessive nouns, use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns, use past and future verbs, use adjectives, conjunctions, and prepositions, create basic sentences in response to prompts, understand and demonstrate capitalization, punctuation and spelling, use context clues, affixes, roots and categories of words, and make connections in the real world between words and their uses.