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Newfoundland and Labrador · Grade 1

English Language Arts

Structured literacy with explicit instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

SLSpeaking and Listening

Oral language for sharing ideas, retelling and following directions

RVReading and Viewing

Phonological awareness, phonics, sight words, fluency and comprehension with simple texts

WRWriting and Representing

Writing simple messages and stories; drawing and representing ideas