English Teaching Resources for Year 1
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Exploring Information Reports Teaching Slides
Teach your students how to write an information report using this detailed slideshow targeted at lower primary school students.
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Oxford Wordlist Mats - Words 1 to 354
Use this set of five Oxford Wordlist Mats as a planning tool for high frequency word activities.
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Let Me Persuade You - Persuasive Writing Activity
Use this persuasive writing prompt to encourage younger students to persuade readers to buy their lunchbox design.
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Long Vowel Phoneme Spotter Stories
Use this set of decodable texts featuring various graphemes that make long vowel sounds.
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Positional Language Hands-On Activity Mats
Engage students with positional language using these fun hands-on activity mats, where they follow instructions to place pictures within five different scenes.
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Dot-to-Dot Alphabet Worksheets
Use this set of 3 dot-to-dot worksheets to get your youngest students practising their recognition of the alphabet.
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Fluency Reading Passage Pack- Year 1
Assess student fluency with a printable pack of reading fluency passages for Year 1.
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Level 3 Decodable Readers - Worksheet Pack
A set of one-pager worksheet versions of the texts from our Level 3 decodable readers
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Alphabet Handwriting Sheets - Individual
Handwriting sheets for each letter of the alphabet.
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Bazinga! Sight Word Spelling Card Game
Play BAZINGA! a sight word spelling game that is sure to boost your students spelling skills.
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Long Vowel Digraph Sort Cut-and-Paste
Reinforce your students' knowledge of long vowel digraphs with this set of cut-and-paste worksheets.
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Long I Words - Word Search
Explore words containing some of the most common ‘long i’ graphemes with this set of differentiated word searches.
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Phoneme Segmentation Worksheets - CVC Words
Use this worksheet pack to give students practice at segmenting words into phonemes.
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Landscape Adjective Hunt Worksheet Pack
Use these worksheets to help your Year 2 students bring settings to life using adjectives in descriptive writing.
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Roll, Read and Write – High Frequency Word Game Pack
Practise reading high frequency words with this set of Roll to Read and Roll to Write High Frequency Word Game boards.
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Narrative Writing Craft Packs
Help early writers escape writer's block with this scaffolded narrative writing craft pack.
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Inference Detectives Worksheet Pack
Guide your students to use personal experiences and text evidence to make inferences with this set of reading worksheets.
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Story Beginning, Middle and End Graphic Organiser
Help your students write and draw about the beginning, middle and end of stories with this set of differentiated graphic organisers.
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School Font Tracing Alphabet with Arrows
Full page upper and lower case alphabet letters with arrows for tracing.
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Alphabet Handwriting Sheets - Including Non-Examples
Handwriting sheets with opportunities for students to trace, identify and write the letters of the alphabet.
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Persuasive Writing Assessment Pack Year 1
Use this task to guide Year 1 students through the complete persuasive writing process as they create a simple persuasive text about the best toy (including a criteria sheet).
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Build a Persuasive Text - Cut and Paste Worksheets
Use this set of basic persuasive texts to build students awareness of the structure required when writing persuasive texts with this Build a Persuasive Text worksheet set.
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Student Reading Log Printables
Track home reading with a printable reading log.
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Information Report Checklists
Use these information report checklists when teaching your students how to edit their informative texts.
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Little Red Riding Hood Retelling Activity Cards
Teach your students about retelling with this set of sequencing cards for Little Red Riding Hood.
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OW and OU Words - Word Search
Explore words containing ‘ow’ and ‘ou’ with this set of differentiated word searches.
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Build a Fact File Worksheet
Use this fact file template as a research tool when teaching factual writing to your students.
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Haiku Poem Resource Pack
Explore nine nature‑themed poems, including Sun Haiku, Cloud Haiku, Tree Haiku and more with this Haiku Resource Pack.
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Seasonal Settings Descriptive Writing Task
Use this Seasonal Settings Descriptive Writing Worksheet Pack to help students strengthen their descriptive writing skills by exploring how different seasons influence the setting of a story.
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Suffix Cut and Paste Worksheets
Build strong word‑building skills with Suffix Sandcastles, a collection of six engaging cut‑and‑paste worksheets designed to help students master common suffix endings.
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Narrative Elements Flipbook
Teach your students about narrative elements with this double-sided flipbook.
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Dressing Up A Sentence Activity
An activity to help encourage students to add more descriptive language into their sentence writing.