English for Grade 1

Kids Academy Classroom’s Grade 1 English curriculum strengthens early literacy foundations while helping children become confident, independent readers and writers. Through lessons, worksheets, games, videos, drills, and quizzes, students explore phonics, high-frequency words, literature, informational texts, vocabulary, and grammar. This structured, engaging approach builds fluency, comprehension, and strong communication skills.

Core areas covered:

Early literacy skills

• Review and mastery of the alphabet, including upper- and lowercase letters and the letters in students’ own names.

• Phonological awareness activities such as recognising rhymes, isolating beginning/middle/ending sounds, blending and segmenting words, and counting phonemes.

Foundational reading skills

• Phonics and word recognition with practice on suffixes, digraphs, silent e, syllables, and irregular spellings.

• Distinguishing long and short vowel sounds (A, E, I, O, U).

• Blending sounds to read words, including CVC words, sight word fluency, and review sets.

Reading literature

• Identifying characters, settings, actions, feelings, and main events in stories.

• Summarizing texts, recognising key details, and understanding lessons or messages.

• Exploring a range of genres including poetry, folktales, realistic fiction, fantasy, and mystery.

• Comparing and contrasting stories, characters’ experiences, and points of view.

Vocabulary development

• Determining meaning using root words, compound words, context clues, prefixes, and suffixes.

• Understanding shades of meaning in verbs and adjectives.

• Making connections between word usage and real-life contexts.

Reading informational texts

• Identifying key details, main ideas, and connections in nonfiction.

• Using text features such as illustrations and headings to support comprehension.

• Comparing and contrasting texts on the same topic and recognizing author’s purpose.

• Exploring biographies, history, science, and paired texts.

Phonics and word study

• Working with vowel spelling patterns, digraphs, long vowel pairs, and silent e.

• Dividing words into syllables and sorting by number of syllables.

• Recognizing and using inflectional endings (–ing, –ed, –s, –es).

English conventions

• Forming sentences using prepositions, nouns, and verbs.

• Applying correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

• Recognizing and using end punctuation, commas, and capitalization in dates and titles.

Writing conventions

• Mastery of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, conjunctions, and prepositions.

• Using determiners, subject/predicate, and sentence types in simple writing tasks.

This comprehensive program ensures first graders develop solid literacy skills, setting the stage for fluent reading, effective writing, and academic success in later grades.