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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How Does It Move? Game
Engage your little learners in the study of motion with a self-checking ‘How Does It Move?’ Game.
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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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Spin or Slide Sort - Science of Movement Activity
Group objects based on how they move with an engaging Spin or Slide? Science of Movement activity.
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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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Recognize, Continue, and Create Patterns Teaching Slides
Support early math learning with this patterns slide deck, designed to help students recognize, continue, and create repeating patterns using real‑life examples.
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Classroom Toys Challenge - Repeating Patterns
Discover repeating patterns with this hands-on resource that helps teachers build student confidence through an engaging, easy-to-use activity.
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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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Tricky Words Activity Mats
Use these printable tricky word mats as a hands-on activity when introducing high frequency words that have an irregular spelling pattern or one your early readers haven’t learnt yet.
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Partitioning Numbers Worksheet Pack
Use this partitioning numbers worksheet pack to help students quantify sets up to 120 through equal grouping and skip‑counting strategies.
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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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High Frequency Word Mats
Use these high frequency word mats for your Kinder and 1st Grade students to experience a hands-on way of learning high frequency words.
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Skip Count Practice Puzzles
Support number-pattern learning with this skip-count practice activity designed to help students recognize, continue, and create skip-counting sequences through a hands-on matching activity.
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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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Carnivores, Herbivores, and Omnivores PowerPoint
Explore types of consumers and how they get their food with an engaging Carnivores, Herbivores, and Omnivores PowerPoint.
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Just Like My Parent - Adult vs. Baby Animal Worksheets
Compare animals and humans with their young with our ‘Just Like My Parent’ Adult vs. Baby Animal Worksheets.
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Comparing Baby vs. Adult Features Worksheet
Compare human adults and their babies with a printable Adult vs. Baby Comparison Worksheet.
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Emotive Vocabulary Worksheet Pack
Use this emotive vocabulary worksheet set to build opinion writing skills in your early writers.
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Easter Addition Coloring Pages (Differentiated)
Grab a fun set of Easter Addition Coloring pages to help your little learners practice adding 1 and 2-digit numbers without regrouping.
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Does It Lay Eggs? Classifying Animals Game
Use our Does It Lay Eggs? Classifying Animals Game to identify examples of oviparous and viviparous animals.
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Do You See What I See? Observation Activity Sheets
Observe, predict, and record changes in the natural world with our ‘Do You See What I See’ Observation Activity Sheets.
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Printable Horse Craft Activity - Lunar New Year
Create a fun printable horse craft for PreK–2nd grade with this easy PDF template. Perfect for decorating, assembling, and celebrating the Year of the Horse.
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Lunar New Year Red Envelopes – Printable Template
Celebrate with Lunar New Year Red Envelopes using this simple PDF craft template designed for elementary classrooms. Just download, print, and create.
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Cut & Compare Animals Worksheet Pack - Ways Animals Move
Use our Cut and Compare Animals Worksheet Pack to help your students practice scientific classification and explore ways that animals move.
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Interactive Animal Movement Game
Explore animals and how they move with an interactive Animal Movement Game.
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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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Comparing Human and Animal Life Cycles Worksheet Pack
Explore how humans and animals grow and change with a Comparing Life Cycles Worksheet.
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Parts of Plants Sorting Activity (K-2)
Identify roots, seeds, fruits, and other plant parts with a printable Parts of a Plant Sorting Activity for early learners.
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Which Doesn’t Belong? Vertebrate or Invertebrate Game
Identify examples of vertebrates and invertebrates with an engaging Which Animal Doesn’t Belong? Vertebrate or Invertebrate Game.
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Humans vs. Animals Venn Diagram Activity
Compare human and animal characteristics with our printable and digital Human vs. Animal Features Venn Diagram activity.
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Vertebrate vs. Invertebrates PowerPoint (K-1)
Explore animals with and without backbones with a Vertebrates vs. Invertebrates PowerPoint for early learners.
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Science Superhero Lab Safety Game
Explore how to use the senses safety in the science lab with an engaging Science Superhero Lab Safety Game.
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Adelie Penguin & Sea Turtle Life Cycle Worksheets
Build and label the life cycle of a penguin and sea turtle with printable life cycle worksheets.