English Teaching Resources for Year 1
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Blending Phonemes Secret Message – Matching Activity
Blend phonemes to build words and uncover the secret message!
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Playtime Before School – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a comic from the Year 1 magazine (Issue 3).
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'10 Fun Facts' Template
A template for younger students to use when conducting and recording research.
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Fascinating Facts About Animals Worksheet
Build reading comprehension skills and learn about amazing animals with a printable year 1 reading comprehension worksheet pack.
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Alice In Wonderland – Drama Freeze Frame – Task Cards
Task cards to help students create freeze frames about the fairy tale, Alice in Wonderland.
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Food-Themed Syllable Puzzle
A fun food-themed phonics activity for lower years that helps to develop syllable recognition.
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Crabbing at Night - Sequencing Worksheet
Identify the story beginning, series of events and ending with this narrative text sequencing activity.
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Persuasive Writing Bump It Up Wall – Year 1
A visual display for your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their persuasive writing.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 2
A word family sorting activity.
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Character Profile Flip Book - Lower Primary
Explore story characters with this flipbook template for lower primary students.
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The Waterfall – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a poem from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 2).
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Tongue Twisters – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article from the Year 1 magazine (Issue 3).
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Wolfie: A Tell-all Interview – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a narrative from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 3).
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Literature Study Task Cards (Lower Primary)
Explore the wonders of children's literature with this set of 12 literature study task cards for lower primary students.
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Aiming For Inference Posters
Six mini posters showing different scenarios that can be used when encouraging students to use inference.
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SPLAT! CCVC Word Game
A set of 36 task cards to practise decoding CCVC words.
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Comical Chronicle Worksheets – Year 1
A set of 10 ad-lib style stories for students to complete.
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Grammar Toss Active Game
An active game that allows students to test and build their knowledge of words and parts of speech.
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Alliteration Poster For Young Students
A poster to use with young students when teaching alliteration.
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Book Report Bunting – Template
Share your students' favourite books with a printable book review template in the shape of bunting.
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Alphabet Slap
A fun game for letter, consonant, and vowel recognition.
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Coffee and Tea Shop Imaginative Play Resource Pack
A coffee and tea shop themed dramatic play kit.
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Summarising a Story Flipbook
A template for students to use when summarising a story.
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My Word Builder Folder
An individual word building folder to develop and consolidate students’ phonemic awareness.
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The Changing Seasons – Worksheet
Read and write about the changing seasons with a comprehension passage and worksheet.
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Move It! - Long and Short Vowel 'u' PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practise reading and identifying long and short vowel ‘u’ words.
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Recommended Books: Lower Years
A list of recommended books for lower years created by award-winning teacher-librarian Megan Daley.
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Simple Sentence Dominoes (Version 2)
A set of 30 dominoes to assist younger students with building simple sentences.
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Word Family Sorting Cards
A set of 36 sorting cards to reinforce word families and rhyming with your students.
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Dolch Word Fishy Find – Game
Dolch words on water creatures for students to revise their high-frequency words.
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English Term Tracker (WA Curriculum) - Year 1
An English term tracker using the WA Curriculum Year 1 content descriptors and codes.
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CVCC and CCVC Words – Playdough Mats
27 pages of 4-letter words for students to practise writing and forming in playdough.