1st Grade

EL Education - 1st Grade

1st grade lesson plans, slideshows, and other resources for the EL Education curriculum

Math - 1st Grade

Math resources, lesson plans and curricular support for 1st grade

Science - 1st Grade

Science resources, including support for FOSS

Early Literacy Central

Assessment materials,

i-Ready guides and SIPPS support

1st Grade Resources

Fall Assessments

By 10/29 - SIPPS Mastery (English only classrooms),

By 12/17 - i-Ready ELA Diagnostic

Other Resources

English Language Arts - 1st Grade

EL Education is the provider of the new ELA curriculum that has been adopted by OUSD for grades K-5, starting in the 2021-22 school year.* The curriculum is standards-based, and relies heavily on fiction and nonfiction trade books. OUSD teachers can find EL Education materials and lesson plans at EL Ed Central. While there are normally four modules in a school year, teachers can opt to teach three modules during this first year of adoption.

* OUSD Dual Language schools use the Benchmark Education curriculum for language instruction.

Fall

Tools and Work

Why do we need tools? How do habits of character help us do work? How do we create a magnificent thing?

A Chef's Tools by Holden Strauss
The Little Red Pen by Janet Stevens and Susan Crummel
The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
Tools by Ann Morris
I Use Science Tools by Kellie L. Hicks
My Math Toolbox by Nancy Kelly Allen

Winter

The Sun, Moon, and Stars

Why do authors write about the sun, moon, and stars? What patterns can we observe in the sky? How do authors use their knowledge and observations to write a story?

What the Sun Sees, What the Moon Sees, by Nancy Tafuri
Does the Sun Sleep?: Noticing Sun, Moon, and Star Patterns, by Martha E.H. Rustad (
What Makes Day and Night, by Franlyn M. Branley (
Kitten’s First Full Moon, by Kevin Henkes
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me
Sun and Moon, by Lindsey Yankey
Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky, by Elphinstone Dayrell
Summer Sun Risin’, by W. Nikola-Lisa

Spring

Birds' Amazing Bodies

What makes a bird a bird? How do birds use their body parts to survive? How do we build our research skills and share our learning?

Feathers: Not Just for Flying, by Melissa Stewart
Flight School, by Lita Judge
Little Kids First Big Book of Birds, by Catherine Hughes (1 per pair)
Birds, by Kevin Henkes
Just Ducks, by Nicola Davis
Beaks!, by Sneed Collard
Birds (Scholastic Discover More), by Penelope Arlon

Math - 1st Grade

Math Expressions is the adopted OUSD curriculum for elementary schools.* The curriculum is aligned to California Common Core standards, which describe what students should know and be able to do in each subject in each grade.

* A number of OUSD elementary schools use an alternative math curriculum, including Eureka Math and SWUN Math.

Fall

Partners and Number Patterns Through 10

How can numbers be broken into two parts?

Addition and Subtraction Strategies

How do we combine partners to find a total and how can we break the total into addends, or partners, to help us solve story problems?

Unknown Numbers in Addition and Subtraction

How can we solve for an unknown number in a story problem in any position?

Winter

Place Value Concepts

How does the value of a digit change depending on its placement in a number?

Place Value Situations

How does our understanding of place value help us add and subtract with greater numbers?

Spring

Comparisons and Data

How can we sort, represent, and interpret data?

Geometry, Measurement, and Equal Shares

How do we measure time and length? How can we define, compose, and decompose shapes and how might we partition them into equal shares?

Two-Digit Addition

How can we use what we know about numbers and their relationships to solve word problems involving 2-digit addition?

Science - 1st Grade

For elementary science instruction, OUSD uses FOSS (Full Option Science System), a research-based science curriculum developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley. This curriculum emphasizes hands-on activities and is aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The order of the three modules varies from school to school, depending on the rotation of physical science kits at each school site.