National Education Standards

CA State State  Standards for English Language Arts 1-4

Vocabulary

These are some of the subjects discussed with their
correlating California State Standards for first grade. You can
easily find your own state and grade level standards to match
these topics:

Simple contractions (Grammar 1.3)

Uses of periods, exclamation points, and question marks
(Punctuation 1.4)

Use of quotation marks (Punctuation 1.5)

Parts of speech (Grammar 1.3)

Basic capitalization: proper names, words at the beginning of
sentences, months, and days of the week (Capitalization1.6)

Complete and Incomplete sentences (Sentence Structure 1.1)

Commas with dates and items in a series, and in the greeting and
closure of a letter (Punctuation 1.4)

Word order (Sentence Structure 1.2)

Other grammatical terms (including "grammatical" and "grammarian") found in Grammarosaurus:

colons
semicolon
clause
punctuation marks apostrophes
participle
direct quote conjugating
hyphen
object parts of speech
subjunctive
reported speech

General Vocabulary Building:
economic
adjust
satisfaction
scoop
sunflowers
psychologist
transference
environmental
die (dice)
footage
peek
bouquets
astonishing
inflammation
roving
random
lure
leak
groundhog
expert
buddies
Latin
tourist
whiz
absurd
date
nervous
Bigfoot

Phrases & Slang
"stop the press!"
"feeling negative"
"once and for all"
"tax code"
"cramp your style"
"be that as it may"
"biz"
"Loch Ness (monster)"
"breaking news"
"buzz off!"
"tea time"
"smiley face"
"beyond reach"
"so be it"
"Nessie"