1st Grade CCSS: Writing

For first graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of writing skills by working collaboratively and producing written texts, understanding syntax and vocabulary, and organizing their ideas. Those goals can be met with support and prompting. Among the complete standards for this grade, first graders will be asked to: write opinion pieces, informative/explanatory texts, and narratives, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers, participate in shared research and writing projects, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.