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Gateway Ratings Summary
ELA 1st Grade Overview
The Grade 1 materials partially meet the expectations for alignment to research-based practices and standards for foundational skills instruction. The materials provide structured instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, and word analysis, emphasizing explicit teaching, cumulative practice, and decodable texts. The materials include well-designed phonics lessons and varied syllabication and morpheme activities. However, high-frequency word instruction is inconsistent, fluency development is limited, and assessments of all skills are limited.