DLI 1st grade guide

DLI Literacy Block 1st Grade 100 Minutes 2025-26

Class Configuration Range of Time

Standards and Components for Focus of Instruction ​

Literacy Component

Standards

Components

95% Phonics Core Program ●​ Phonological Awareness

30 minutes

•​ Reading 1.R. 2-4

●​ Phonics ●​ Spelling ●​ Handwriting ●​ Decodable

Foundations

Wonders ●​ Big Book (Units 1-3) ●​ Shared Read (Units 4-6) ●​ Interactive Read Aloud

Whole Group Cooperative

●​ Speaking and Listening 1. SL. 1-3 ●​ Reading 1.R. 4-10

Groups & Partners

40 minutes

Language, Reading & Writing

●​ Anchor Text ●​ Paired Text ●​ Vocabulary

Wonders ●​ Reading/Writing Companion ●​ Extended Writing ●​ Grammar Lesson Bank

●​ Writing Standards 1.W. 1-5

Wonders ●​ Leveled Readers ●​ Decodables

Skill Based Instruction

30 minutes*

95% Phonics Core Review 95% Phonics Lesson Library 95% Phonological Awareness Kit PALS Early Literacy Software

●​ Skills for frontloading, reviewing or extending

Small Groups

* School sites have discretion to adjust the minutes in small groups.