First Grade · emergent reading, first math, a classroom close to families
First Grade in Ohio
Ohio public schools are overseen by the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. This is the First Grade view of one honest K-12 platform, from the state capital of Columbus to the smallest district in between.
Schools across Ohio
State capital
Columbus
Schools statewide, from the capital to every district beyond it.
Serving schools in
Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Akron, and Dayton
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 academic standards First Grade follows in Ohio
Ohio adopts its own academic standards; the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce is the authority that sets what a public school teaches. Below are the real, currently listed Ohio standards documents for Grades K-2, by subject, with a link to each one so you can read it at the source. We write our own free First Grade materials to align with them; we are not the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, and we are not endorsed, approved by, or affiliated with it.
English Language Arts
Ohio Learning Standards English Language Arts (2017)
L.1.1— Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.L.1.1.a— Print all upper- and lowercase letters.L.1.1.b— Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.
246 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.
Example standards are quoted verbatim under CC BY 3.0 US attribution; read them in full in the source document.
Mathematics
Ohio Learning Standards: Mathematics (2017)
1.G.A— Reason with shapes and their attributes.1.MD.1— Order three objects by length; compare the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object.1.MD.3.a— Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
133 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.
Example standards are quoted verbatim under CC BY 3.0 US attribution; read them in full in the source document.
Science
Ohio Learning Standards: Science (2018)
1.ESS.1(see the source document for the full text)1.ESS.2(see the source document for the full text)1.LS.1(see the source document for the full text)
81 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.
We cite the standard codes and link the source document; the full text is published there.
Social Studies
Ohio's Learning Standards Social Studies (2018)
1.E.11— Wants are unlimited and resources are limited. Individuals make choices because they cannot have everything they want.1.E.12— People produce and consume goods and services in the community.1.E.13— People trade to obtain goods and services they want.
43 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.
Example standards are quoted verbatim under CC BY 3.0 US attribution; read them in full in the source document.
Standard codes and text are drawn from the Common Standards Project / Achievement Standards Network (ASN) corpus, republished by D2L Corporation (CC BY (per-document; see each cell.document.license)). 3rd-party aggregator copy, NOT an authoritative state publication. Verify against each document's own source before treating as authoritative. We do not present this as an authoritative crosswalk; each state agency’s own publication, linked above, is the authority.
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 Ohio.
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.