Saskatchewan · Grade 1
English Language Arts, Grade 1
Saskatchewan’s Grade 1 English course, from Comprehend and Respond to Assess and Reflect.
- Units
- 3
- Lessons
- 3
- Skills
- 14
- Provincial exam
- None
- Official curriculum
- Saskatchewan Ministry of Education
Unit by unit
Every skill in the course, with its official code.
Unit 1 · 6 skills
Comprehend and Respond
Stories About Me, My Friends, and Our World
Responding to stories about who I am
I can share how a story about a person, like me, makes me feel.
Official code: CR1.1
Responding to stories about the people around us
I can share how a story about friends and family makes me feel.
Official code: CR1.1
Responding to stories about caring for our world
I can share how a story about caring for the world makes me feel.
Official code: CR1.1
Understanding pictures and picture-videos
I can look at a picture or video and tell what it means and how it feels.
Official code: CR1.2
Listening and retelling what I heard
I can listen to a story and retell it in order, telling who and what happened.
Official code: CR1.3
Reading and understanding stories and information
I can read a short text and tell its beginning, middle, and end, and the problem and solution.
Official code: CR1.4
The official wording · 6 outcomes
- CR1.1
- Comprehend and respond to a variety of grade-level texts (including contemporary and traditional visual, oral, written, and multimedia) that address: • identity (e.g., All About Me)
- CR1.1
- texts (including contemporary and traditional visual, oral, written, and multimedia) that address: • community (e.g., Friends and Family)
- CR1.1
- texts (including contemporary and traditional visual, oral, written, and multimedia) that address: • social responsibility (e.g., Conservation) and relate to own feelings, ideas, and experiences.
- CR1.2
- View and comprehend the explicit messages, feelings, and features in a variety of visual and multimedia texts (including pictures, photographs, simple graphs, diagrams, pictographs, icons, and illustrations).
- CR1.3
- Listen to and comprehend a variety of texts (including a book read aloud, a person speaking, and directions) to retell the sequence and key points (who, what, when, where, why, and how).
- CR1.4
- Read and comprehend grade-appropriate texts (including narratives, informational texts, scripts, and poems) by relating the sequence (i.e., beginning, middle, and end), the key points (who, what, when, where, and why), and the problems and solutions.
Key ideas
Stories can be about who we are — what we like, our families, and what makes us special. That is called identity.
When we read or hear a story about identity, we can connect it to our own feelings and experiences, like 'That happened to me too!'.
Community means the people around us — our friends, family, and neighbours.
Stories about community can remind us of people we know and how we help each other.
Social responsibility means taking care of our world and each other, like saving water or being kind.
Watch out for
- Thinking a story about someone else has nothing to do with you.
- Only saying what happened in the story, without sharing how it made you feel.
- Thinking a family or friend group in a story must look exactly like your own.
Every skill’s key ideas, worked examples and checks are in MapleMind.Practise this unit
Unit 2 · 6 skills
Compose and Create
Sharing My Ideas About Me, My Friends, and Our World
Sharing my thoughts about who I am
I can make a picture, tell, or write to share who I am and how I feel.
Official code: CC1.1
Sharing my thoughts about the people around us
I can make a picture, tell, or write to share about my friends, family, or neighbourhood.
Official code: CC1.1
Sharing my thoughts about caring for our world
I can make a picture, tell, or write to share how we can care for our world.
Official code: CC1.1
Showing ideas with pictures, drama, and models
I can show an idea or a story in order, using a picture, drama, or a model.
Official code: CC1.2
Speaking clearly so others understand
I can speak clearly and loudly enough so others can understand my ideas.
Official code: CC1.3
Writing a short story or information text
I can write a short story or information text of at least five sentences about something I know.
Official code: CC1.4
The official wording · 6 outcomes
- CC1.1
- Compose and create a range of visual, multimedia, oral, and written texts that explore and present thoughts on: • identity (e.g., Feelings)
- CC1.1
- texts that explore and present thoughts on: • community (e.g., Neighbourhood)
- CC1.1
- texts that explore and present thoughts on: • social responsibility (e.g., Plants and Trees).
- CC1.2
- Represent key ideas and events, in a logical sequence and with detail, in different ways (including dramatization, pictures, sounds, physical movement, charts, models, and drawings).
- CC1.3
- Speak clearly and audibly about ideas, experiences, preferences, questions, and conclusions in a logical sequence, using expression and dramatization when appropriate.
- CC1.4
- Write and share stories and short informational texts about familiar events and experiences in a minimum of five sentences.
Key ideas
We can share our own thoughts about who we are — our feelings and what makes us special.
We can share in different ways: drawing a picture, telling out loud, or writing words.
Community is the people and places around us, like our neighbourhood.
We can share our ideas about our community by drawing, telling, or writing about it.
We can share our own ideas about caring for the world, like helping plants and trees grow.
Watch out for
- Thinking you need lots of words to share an idea — a picture shares ideas too.
- Copying someone else's idea instead of sharing your own thoughts.
- Thinking community only means your house, and forgetting friends and neighbours.
Every skill’s key ideas, worked examples and checks are in MapleMind.Practise this unit
Unit 3 · 2 skills
Assess and Reflect
Thinking About How I Learn
Noticing what good readers and writers do
I can name one thing good readers, listeners, or writers do.
Official code: AR1.1
Setting a little goal to get better
I can set one little goal to help me read, write, or listen better.
Official code: AR1.2
The official wording · 2 outcomes
- AR1.1
- Identify, with teacher guidance, what good viewers, listeners, readers, representers, speakers, and writers do.
- AR1.2
- Set and monitor, in consultation with the teacher, goals for more effective viewing, listening, reading, representing, speaking, and writing experiences.
Key ideas
Good readers, listeners, and writers use helpful habits, like looking at pictures or checking their work.
Noticing these habits helps us try them ourselves.
A goal is something we want to get better at, like reading a bit longer or writing neatly.
We can check on our goal to see how we are doing — that is called monitoring it.
Watch out for
- Thinking good readers or writers never make mistakes.
- Not being able to name any helpful habit at all.
- Setting a goal so big it can't be reached in a school year.
Every skill’s key ideas, worked examples and checks are in MapleMind.Practise this unit
Plan the term
Pick your term and the days you study. Each unit gets its share of the weeks and comes back a week later for a review. The last two weeks go over the whole course.
The official curriculum
This page follows Saskatchewan’s own curriculum for English Language Arts, Grade 1.
Textbooks
The textbooks Saskatchewan Ministry of Education lists for English Language Arts, Grade 1:
- Collections 1
- Gage Cornerstones 1: Canadian Language Arts
- Nelson Literacy 1
- Turtle Island Voices Grade 1
From core resources, read October 27, 2026. curriculum.gov.sk.ca
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Questions about English Language Arts, Grade 1
What is English Language Arts, Grade 1?
Saskatchewan’s Grade 1 English course: 3 units and 14 skills, from Comprehend and Respond to Assess and Reflect.
What units are in English Language Arts, Grade 1?
1. Comprehend and Respond, 2. Compose and Create and 3. Assess and Reflect.
Is there a provincial exam for English Language Arts, Grade 1?
No. Saskatchewan gives no provincial exam for English Language Arts, Grade 1.
What textbook does English Language Arts, Grade 1 use?
The textbooks Saskatchewan Ministry of Education lists for English Language Arts, Grade 1: Collections 1, Gage Cornerstones 1: Canadian Language Arts, Nelson Literacy 1 and Turtle Island Voices Grade 1.
What comes after English Language Arts, Grade 1?
English Language Arts, Grade 2.
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