Evaluating Grade 1 Reading Proficiency

This checklist is designed to serve as a measure to evaluate the literacy skills of Grade 1 students in the key areas of Phonics, Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Fluency. Please indicate task completion by placing a checkmark next to each task.

Phonics

Students demonstrate understanding of the alphabetic principle and apply phonics rules to reading and spelling.

• Identify and produce rhyming words.

• Identify and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.

• Decode one-syllable words.

• Recognize the difference between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

• Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Comprehension

Students comprehend and evaluate complex texts across a range of types and disciplines.

• Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

• Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

• Describe the connection between individuals, events, ideas, or information in a text.

• Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.

• Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.

Vocabulary

Students acquire and use accurately a range of words and phrases and gather vocabulary knowledge.

• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases.

• Understand and use question words (interrogatives).

• Use the most frequently occurring prepositions.

• Identify, use, and explain the meaning of adjectives.

• Acquire and use grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases.

Fluency

Students should be able to read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

• Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

• Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.

• Use phrasing, intonation, and expression in reading aloud.

• Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

• Use context to confirm or self-check word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

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