What your first grader needs to know
Subtitle: fundamentals of a good first-grade education
By: edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Contributors: Hirsch, E. D. 1928-.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Core knowledge series
Publisher: Delta Trade Paperbacks
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780385319874
Subjects: First grade (Education) -- Curricula -- United States.; Curriculum planning -- United States.
Other titles: What your 1st grader needs to know
Description: What will your child be expected to learn in the first grade? How can you help him or her at home? How can teachers foster active, successful learning in the classroom? This book answers these all-important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that hundreds of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American first graders. Revised and updated, filled with a wealth of opportunities for reading aloud and fostering discussion, this first-grade volume of the acclaimed Core Knowledge Series presents the sort of knowledge and skills that should be at the core of a challenging first-grade education.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Language and literature. Reading, writing, and your first grader ; Literature ; Poetry ; Aesop's Fables ; Stories ; Drama ; Familiar sayings; title: History and geography. World history and geography ; American history and geography; title: Visual arts; title: Music; title: Mathematics. Patterns and classifications ; Numbers and number sense ; Computation ; Money ; Geometry ; Measurement; title: Science. Living things and their habitats ; Oceans and undersea life ; The human body ; Matter : solid, liquid, and gas ; Measurement : how long, how much, how hot ; Electricity : an introduction to the shocking facts ; Astronomy : our solar system ; Down to earth ; Stories about scientists.