First Grade · emergent reading, first math, a classroom close to families
First Grade in Indiana
Indiana public schools are overseen by the Indiana Department of Education. This is the First Grade view of one honest K-12 platform, from the state capital of Indianapolis to the smallest district in between.
Schools across Indiana
State capital
Indianapolis
Schools statewide, from the capital to every district beyond it.
Serving schools in
Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Evansville, South Bend, Carmel, Fishers, Bloomington, and Hammond
and the towns in between — the small schools, not only the big ones.
What First Grade looks like here
The emergent-reader year; a child moving from recognizing letters to decoding words and from counting to adding, in a warm, family-connected classroom.
First grade still lives in the class keepsake more than the gradebook; a proud emergent-reader's page passes the teacher-approval gate, honest content-safety scan advising the teacher, never auto-published.
From kindergarten readiness into the first real academics; the child now reads and the parent reads with them at home.
Standards
The standards First Grade lessons align to in Indiana
In Indiana, the Indiana Department of Education sets the standards a public school must teach. We are not the Indiana Department of Education, and we are not endorsed, approved, or affiliated with it -- or with the organizations that steward the frameworks below. We write each First Grade lesson against published national standards frameworks that many states draw on, and we tell you which ones, so you can check them against what Indiana requires.
At Grades K-2, First Grade focuses on the foundational years -- learning to read with phonics, building number sense, and counting. The lessons run in these subject lanes: Reading & writing, Mathematics, Science, Social studies & civics, and The arts.
CCSS
Common Core State Standards
Shared expectations for English language arts and mathematics adopted by many states.
Stewarded by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers. We align our materials to it; we are not endorsed or approved by it.
NGSS
Next Generation Science Standards
Science expectations organized around practices, core ideas, and crosscutting concepts.
Stewarded by Achieve, on behalf of the lead states. We align our materials to it; we are not endorsed or approved by it.
C3
the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards
An inquiry-driven framework for civics, economics, geography, and history.
Stewarded by the National Council for the Social Studies. We align our materials to it; we are not endorsed or approved by it.
NCAS
the National Core Arts Standards
Expectations for creating, performing, responding to, and connecting with the arts.
Stewarded by the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards. We align our materials to it; we are not endorsed or approved by it.
What that looks like, subject by subject
Reading & writing
First Grade Reading & writing
Close reading, vocabulary, and clear writing built on original worksheets and public-domain texts.
First Grade Reading & writing lessons here align to Common Core State Standards.
Mathematics
First Grade Mathematics
Number sense, operations, and problem-solving practice sets you can print or assign.
First Grade Mathematics lessons here align to Common Core State Standards.
Science
First Grade Science
Hands-on observation, measurement, and inquiry activities for the classroom or the kitchen table.
First Grade Science lessons here align to Next Generation Science Standards.
Social studies & civics
First Grade Social studies & civics
Primary-source reading and civics built around the public-domain founding documents.
First Grade Social studies & civics lessons here align to the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.
The arts
First Grade The arts
Looking, listening, and making activities that pair with public-domain works of art and music.
First Grade The arts lessons here align to the National Core Arts Standards.
Standards vary by state. Indiana sets its own academic standards through the Indiana Department of Education, not through us; its own site is the place to check the exact documents and codes it currently requires for each subject above.
We do not reproduce the standard text here; the steward’s site is the place to read it in full. “Aligned to” is a claim we make about our own work, not a stamp from someone else.
Honest by default
The school stays the FERPA custodian of student records; a rep-scoped view reads zero grade rows at the database engine. Money, pricing, and checkout are honest-off on this page, and any school count above is an NCES Common Core of Data reference figure, never a claim of adoption in Indiana.
Where these numbers come from
Data from the NCES Common Core of Data, 2023-2024. Schools may have opened or closed since publication.
More on First Grade
The First Grade overview
The full First Grade view of the platform — the capabilities that lead at this grade, each marked honestly as shipped or early access.
schoolsoftware.app
The plain-language K–12 module catalog front door. Every grade page is one grade’s view of that same platform.
homeroom.software
The flagship platform home, with the full product story behind every module and every grade.