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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Data Collection Investigation Project
Assign this data collection project to enable students to master the skills of gathering, recording, and graphing data.
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Printable Dog Tag Veterans Day Card
Spend time writing letters to veterans and gift them a heartfelt Veterans Day dog tag thank you card.
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Veterans Day Art Project - Collaborative Poppy Quilt
Create a poppy craft to display on Veterans Day with a printable collaborative quilt template.
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Veterans Day Vocabulary Cards and Writing Center
Help your kindergartners and first graders understand the meaning of Veterans Day with a Veterans Day Write the Room display.
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Managing Big Emotions – Interactive Activity
Teach students how to manage emotions using healthy coping skills with this interactive scenario game for the early years classroom.
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Empathy Worksheet Pack
Unlock a world of empathy with our SEL worksheet pack – download now and embark on a journey to nurture kindness and understanding with your students.
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Season Characteristics Task Cards
Give your students the clues and watch them select the mystery season with this set of 24 task cards.
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Fire Safety Word Scramble Worksheets
Have some word-friendly fun with a Fire Safety Word Scramble worksheet.
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Then and Now - Grandparents' Day Interview Activity
Interview grandma and grandpa to compare then and now with our printable Grandparents’ Day interview templates.
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Grandparents' Day Writing Prompt - The Very Best Day
Surprise Grandma and Grandpa with a special story telling about the Best Day Ever with a Grandparents’ Day writing prompt.
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Be Kind To Your Mind-Live Drug Free Coloring Page
Inspire your students to live drug-free with free Red Ribbon week coloring pages.
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Coping Skills Wheel – Anchor Chart
Help your students learn and apply emotional self-regulation skills with this coping skills wheel of choices poster.
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For and Against Worksheets
Explore 'for' and 'against' arguments for five different topics with this set of 'for' and 'against' sorting activities.
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ASL Fingerspelling - Grandparents Day Card Template
Give grandma and grandpa a ‘sign’ to say Happy Grandparents’ Day with a printable ASL Grandparents’ Day card.
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Funky Halloween Witch Craft Template
Color and craft a fun witch with fabulous accessories with this funky Halloween Coloring Page and Craft Template
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Easy Dot Art Drawing Worksheets
Inspire creativity and motivate your students to make something special with an International Dot Day Drawing activity.
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How to Draw a Grandma - Directed Drawing
Draw and write about grandmothers on Grandparents’ Day with a ‘How to Draw a Grandma’ directed drawing activity sheet.
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Innovate and Invent! Science Word Search
Build your students’ vocabulary around the topics of innovation and invention with a word search worksheet.
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Spider Outline Template
Create creepy eight-legged arachnids with a printable spider outline template.
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Desk Pet Habitat Templates
Encourage positive behavior with printable Desk Pet Habitats for your students to spend their Desk Pet Dollars on!
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Story Elements Worksheets - The Goose and the Golden Egg
Practice identifying the story characters, settings and main events with this set of worksheets based on a traditional tale.
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Story Elements Worksheets – The Ants and the Grasshopper
Practice identifying the story characters, settings and main events with this set of worksheets based on a traditional tale.
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Story Elements Cut and Paste Worksheets - The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Explore story characters, settings and main events with this set of cut-and-paste worksheets based on a well-known fable.
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Story Elements Worksheets – The Fox and the Grapes
Practice identifying the story characters, settings and main events with this set of worksheets based on a traditional tale.
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Teacher Call Backs - Attention-Getting Phrases List
Catch your students’ attention with a set of fun attention-grabbing callback phrases.
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Find 20 Addition Strategy Task Cards
Practice finding 20 with this set of linking cube task cards.
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Three Little Pigs – Sequencing Worksheet
Identify the story beginning, series of events and ending with this narrative text sequencing activity.
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Skip Counting Caterpillar Worksheet Pack
Use a Skip Counting Caterpillar Worksheet for your kindergarten and first grade students to practice and improve their skip counting skills!
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Printable Behavior Tracker - Bees
Track individual student behavior in your classroom with a printable "Bee-havior Chart"!
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10 More, 10 Less Coloring Worksheets (Differentiated)
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Social Skills Lessons - Cooperation Worksheets
Teach your students how to show cooperation with a set of printable SEL worksheets.
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Character Appearance, Traits and Feelings - Worksheet
Explore and describe a character's personality, feelings and appearance with this differentiated worksheet to be used with any text.