A printable, ready-to-use blank calendar with a landscape monthly grid and labeled day columns. Great for Kindergarten through 5th grade classrooms to map out lessons, holidays, and daily routines—just add the month and the dates.
The Letter A Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
The Baby Shark Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
Using the Counting Songs (Classic Video Collection), students practice skip counting by all of the numbers by singing and counting along to these thirteen videos.
An animal-themed ordinal number directions worksheet that helps first graders name positions from first to sixth and follow simple directions. Includes an answer key for quick, no-prep ordinal numbers practice.
The Alphabet Songs Collection - Classic will help your kids gain a better understanding of letter names and sounds by listening to these ABC Songs.
This Counting Tens Ones Worksheet helps first graders count base-ten blocks, record the tens and ones, and write each two-digit number. Includes a complete answer key for quick, no-prep place value practice at home or school.
Keep this Digraphs Word List within reach during 1st Grade phonics. Twelve consonant digraphs and forty-eight example words sit on one print-ready page, so readers can check a spelling in seconds.
A calendar game where kids build this month’s real calendar with Sunny: put the days of the week in order, count the days, then answer today, yesterday and tomorrow and pick the weather. Play online on any phone, tablet, Chromebook or computer.
A short vowel E reading comprehension story worksheet starring Ben and his hen. 1st graders read the decodable story and answer questions. Includes a complete answer key — great for quick, no-prep phonics and reading practice.
The Alphabet Songs Pack - Animated will help support your visual learners gain a better understanding of letter names and sounds by listening to this song.
A farm egg-catching short vowel review game where first grade kids catch the eggs with short a, e, i, o and u words like cat, hen, pig, pot and sun. Play online on any phone, tablet, Chromebook or computer.
This adding and subtracting within 20 worksheet gives first graders mixed addition and subtraction fact practice with a helpful number line. Includes a complete answer key for quick, no-prep math review.
The All About Autumn Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 1st graders a short fall passage and multiple-choice questions to build reading comprehension. An answer key is included for quick, no-prep practice at home or school.
While listening to the Seasons Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the seasons of the year while listening to a catchy song. Here we go, oh, seasons of the year! Your kids will be singing this song about the seasons over and over. Bring joy into your classroom with…
Using We Wish You A Merry Christmas Lyrics, students can follow along with the memorable song in order to know the which words to sing!
The Letter B Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
UsingFrosty the Snowman Lyrics, students can follow along with the memorable song in order to know the which words to sing!
This first grade Less Than Greater Than Worksheet has students write <, >, or = to compare pairs of numbers, with a friendly alligator pointing the way. Answer key included for quick, no-prep number-sense practice.
The year reading takes off
First grade is a year of huge growth, especially in reading. Kids blend short vowel words, learn digraphs like sh and ch, add blends and silent e, and build a bank of sight words. In math, they add and subtract within 20 using strategies like making ten: 8 + 5 = 8 + 2 + 3 = 13. They learn tens and ones, count to 120, tell time to the half hour and measure length. In writing, kids put together complete sentences with capitals and end marks. The best moment is when a 1st grader reads their first whole book aloud to you!
First graders learn best with hands-on practice and lots of quick, happy repetition.
Have kids bundle straws or craft sticks into groups of ten with rubber bands. Show 34 as 3 bundles and 4 loose sticks, then fill in the counting tens and ones page. Kids see why the 3 means thirty.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withCounting Tens Ones WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Hand out a short decodable story like Ben and the Eggs and have kids read it to a partner. Then they answer the questions on their own. It checks phonics and understanding in one quick shot.
Why it works: pulling an answer out of memory makes it stick far better than rereading it, one of the strongest findings in learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withBen and the Eggs Phonics Reading Comprehension Story Worksheet - Short Vowel E SoundAssessmentsOpen it →Give a short adding and subtracting within 20 page three times a week instead of one big page on Friday. Short, spread-out practice builds fact fluency that lasts into 2nd grade.
Why it works: the brain holds on to what it meets again and again over time; spaced practice was rated among the very best methods (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withAdding and Subtracting Within 20 WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →First graders love to move, sort and play.
WorksheetsLine up stuffed animals and follow ordinal directions: "Give the third bear a hat!"
Open Ordinal Number Directions Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids sort nouns into person, place and thing piles, then add a word of their own to each.
Open Noun Sorting Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids hunt the room for things with sh, ch and th: shoe, chair, thumb!
Open Digraphs Word List →Teacher favorites right now: Blank Calendar, Letter A Song (Original Music Video) and Alphabet Song (Original Music Video).
Most 1st graders can read simple books, decode short vowel words and blends, read many sight words, add and subtract within 20, count to 120 and write complete sentences.
Many schools aim for about 100 high-frequency words, often the first 100 Fry words. Every school's list is a little different.
Read together every day, let your child read easy books to you, and practice sounding out words. Five minutes of sight word practice helps too.
They learn counting on, making ten, doubles and using number lines. These strategies help kids add and subtract within 20 without counting on fingers.
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