1st Grade Teaching Resources
Dive into first-grade resources created by teachers for teachers at Teach Starter. From 1st grade sight words to math worksheets, this collection of carefully curated and rigorously reviewed resources can help you set your classroom up for success this school year.
With curriculum-aligned resources that meet the first-grade Common Core standards and state curricula, this collection of digital and printable lessons and activities is designed to complete your teaching toolkit. Each features beautiful graphics, interactive elements, appealing images, and colorful illustrations to engage and educate your students.
Explore ELA with first-grade spelling words, vocabulary words and writing prompts. Make addition and subtraction fun with math games and problems, and watch their math skills blossom through comparing numbers, identifying coins, telling time and more!
Plus, get hands-on with your students while they discover the fascinating world of earth and space sciences.
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Refugee Day Teaching Presentation
A 14 page teaching presentation on World Refugee Day.
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Self-Portrait Template
Use a printable self portrait template to get to know your students.
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Exploring Informational Texts Teaching Slides
Teach your students how to write an informational text using this detailed slideshow targeted at lower elementary school students.
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Skip Counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s PowerPoint
A 28-page editable PowerPoint to use in the classroom when introducing skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s.
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Dear Diary Template
A template for diary entries.
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Handwriting Paper with Dotted Middle Line - Landscape
Handwriting paper for beginning writers.
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How to Make an Origami Bird — Step-By-Step Instructions for Kids
Download printable step-by-step instructions to make an origami bird plus get ideas for math lesson plans that incorporate the bird!
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Let the Sun Shine In! - Worksheet
A worksheet to use when exploring the sun as a light source.
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Exploring Procedural Writing Teaching Slides
Teach your students about writing a procedure using this detailed slideshow targeted at 1st- and 2nd-graders.
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What's On Your Plate Worksheet
A worksheet that helps students reflect on their eating habits.
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Vowel Digraphs Poster Pack
A poster showing words and pictures for various vowel blends.
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CVC Beginning and Ending Letters Worksheet Pack
Practice identifying missing beginning and ending sounds and letters in this set of 10 CVC worksheets.
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Material World Jigsaws
Six mini jigsaw puzzles focusing on the materials objects are made of.
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Computer Username and Password Login Cards
Use these computer login cards as a reminder for each student.
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Compare and Contrast - Venn Diagram Template
A template to use when teaching students how to compare and contrast.
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Student Gift Tags – You Blew Me Away This Year
Blow your students away with fun end of year gifts wearing these adorable end-of-year gift tags!
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Exploring Simple Explanations PowerPoint
Use this Exploring Simple Explanations PowerPoint to teach your students about what explanation texts are, why they are written, and how they are structured.
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Wh Question Posters for Recount Writing
Support young learners to confidently retell events with this set of WH Question posters, designed especially for Early Years and Lower Primary classrooms.
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Life Cycle Explanation Project Writing Scaffold Pack
Use this project including life cycles and explanation planning templates when exploring explanations with your early years students.
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How Does It Move? Toy Graphing Worksheets
Explore motion and mathematics with engaging Toy Graphing Worksheets.
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Push and Pull Toy Sorting Activity
Explore types of forces and practise classification skills with a printable Push and Pull Toy Sorting Activity.
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How Do Toys Move? Worksheet
Explore motion and how things move with a printable ‘How Do Toys Move?’ Worksheet.
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Addition Practice Worksheets
Support student fluency with addition practice worksheets that build confidence with addition facts from 0–20 through fun, varied, and engaging tasks.
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Roll, Slide or Bounce? Toy Sorting Activity
Explore movement, sorting, and classification with a printable ‘How It Moves’ Toy Sorting Activity.
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Persuasive Writing Assessment Pack 1st Grade
Use this task to guide Grade 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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Life Cycle of a Grasshopper Worksheet Pack
Explore the stages in a grasshopper's life with a printable Life Cycle of a Grasshopper Worksheet Pack.
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High Frequency Words Worksheet Pack - 1st Grade
Support your 1st Grade students as they consolidate their understanding of high‑frequency words with this engaging and purposeful high frequency words worksheet pack.
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High Frequency Tricky Words Teaching Slides - 1st Grade
Give your 1st Grade students the structured support they need to read and spell high‑frequency words with unusual or unexpected spelling patterns.
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First Grade High Frequency Words Reading Mats
Use these High Frequency words reading mats to help students identify and read high frequency words.
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Soccer-Themed Motivational Coloring Pages
Promote teamwork, resilience, and sportsmanship with our soccer-themed Motivational Coloring Pages.
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Be a Good Sport! Digital Quiz
Teach your students how to be a good sport with this digital quiz perfect for use during social-emotional learning lessons.
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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 opinion texts with this Build a Persuasive Text worksheet set.