What your first grader needs to know: fundamentals of a good first-grade education

I. Language and literature. Learning to read : Reading is not a skill ; The knowledge connection

First grade and your child : Listening and learning

Common Core state standards and your child : A balance of fiction and nonfiction ; Explore the world through reading and listening ; A focus on evidence ; Academic vocabulary ; Coherence

Building literacy at home : Read to your first grader ; Talk to your child ; Limit TV time ; Choose activities that build background knowledge ; Be a reader, raise a reader

What to learn more?

Literature : Read-aloud activities

Poetry and rhymes

Aesop's Fables

Stories

Drama

Familiar sayings

II. History and geography. World history and geography

American history and geography

III. Visual arts

IV. Music

V. Mathematics. Patterns and classifications

Numbers and number sense

Computation

Money

Geometry

Measurement

VI. Science. Living things and their habitats

Oceans and undersea life

The human body

Electricity: an introduction to the shocking facts

Astronomy: our solar system

Our planet Earth.