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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What Can I Control? Interactive Emotional Regulation Activity
Help your students build emotional regulation skills with an interactive emotional control activity for classroom SEL instruction.
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100th Day Find and Color - Numbers
Practice identifying numbers with a 100th day of school find and color worksheet.
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Decoding Multisyllabic Words - Syllable Type Interactive Activity
Practice identifying syllable types in two- and three-syllable words with this engaging interactive activity.
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Book Scavenger Hunt Task Cards
Take a journey through the library with a set of Read Across America Scavenger Hunt task cards.
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About My Emotional Heart Craft- Printable SEL Activities
Teach feelings and big emotions to your young learners with a heart-shaped printable feelings book.
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Which One? – Listening Comprehension Exercise
An Interactive PowerPoint where students listen to a description and choose the matching image.
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Phoneme Segmentation Fluency Strips
Develop students’ ability to segment and blend phonemes with this comprehensive set of phoneme segmentation fluency strips.
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Sloth Mindfulness Coloring Pages
Use these sloth-themed coloring pages to bring a bit of creative calm into the classroom.
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Communication in the Past and Present- Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity for students to identify old and new communication devices.
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In the Arctic - Free Decodable Book
Engage your students and inspire them to read and learn about life in the Arctic with a printable book for 2nd grade.
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Snowflake Syllables - Winter Reading Center
Help students practice breaking words into syllables and identifying open and closed syllables with a winter literacy center.
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Funky Christmas Gnome Craft Template
Get ready for Christmas with this popular gnome craft featuring a customizable Zentangle Pattern Christmas Gnome with funky glasses and holiday accessories.
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Word List - Soft G Words & Hard G Words
Practice reading and spelling soft g words and hard g words with a list of 50 words.
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Word Study List - Consonant Digraphs
Cover consonant digraphs in the classroom with a printable list of digraph words.
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Word Study List — Final Stable Syllable
Introduce and explore multisyllable words with a list of final stable syllable words.
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Word Study List - Trigraphs
Introduce and explore words with trigraphs using a list of 50 trigraph words.
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Word Study List - Silent Letters
Introduce and explore words containing silent letters with this extensive list of words.
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Snow Globe Digraphs - Google Interactive
Bring some winter fun into your phonics lessons with an interactive Snowglobe Digraph activity.
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Word Study List - R Blend Words
Introduce and explore words containing an initial r-blend with this extensive list of words.
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Word Study List - R-Controlled Vowels
Introduce and explore words containing r-controlled vowels with this extensive list of words.
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Word Study List - Long E Words
Explore and practice the many ways to spell the long E sound with a list of 50 long E words.
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Word Study List - CCVC Words
Introduce and explore words containing the consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant pattern with this printable list of CCVC words.
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Word Study List - Long O Words
Introduce and explore words containing graphemes that make the “long o” sound with this extensive list of words.
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Word Study List - Long I Words
Introduce and explore words containing spelling patterns that make the “long i” sound with this long I words list.
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Election Day Writing Craftivity
Learn about Election Day, the voting process, and procedural text with an election-themed writing and craft activity.
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Write About It! Winter Sentence Builder Pack
Differentiate writing instruction in primary grades with a group of leveled informational writing prompts about winter
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American Symbols Mini-Book
Engage your students and inspire them to read and learn about American symbols and memorials with a printable book for 2nd grade.
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Sorting Activity - Hard and Soft Sound of C
Practice identifying the different sounds made by the letter C with this hands-on sorting activity.
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Worksheet - Spelling Soft G Words & Hard G Words
Practice identifying the soft g sound and hard g sound with this printable two-page worksheet.
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Phonics Worksheets - Hard and Soft C
Practice identifying the different sounds made by the letter C with this printable two-page worksheet.
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Expanded Form Dominoes (2-Digit Numbers)
Use this set of dominoes when learning how to match 2-digit numbers written in standard form and expanded form.
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Apple Activities - Short and Long Vowel Sort
Supplement your phonics lessons with an apple-themed initial sound sorting activity.