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.
- Plus Plan
Word Study List - Silent Letters
Introduce and explore words containing silent letters with this extensive list of words.
- Plus Plan
Interpreting a Bar Graph – Worksheet
Interpret information from a bar graph and answer questions with this worksheet.
- Plus Plan
Word Study List - Ending Blends
Introduce and explore words containing ending blends with this extensive list of words.
- Plus Plan
Word Study List - R Blend Words
Introduce and explore words containing an initial r-blend with this extensive list of words.
- Plus Plan
Label a Turkey Worksheet
Bring Tom Turkey and animal studies into your Thanksgiving lesson plans with a turkey labeling worksheet.
- Plus Plan
Word Study List - R-Controlled Vowels
Introduce and explore words containing r-controlled vowels with this extensive list of words.
- Plus Plan
Word Study List - Long Vowels
Introduce and explore words containing graphemes that make long vowel sounds with this extensive list of words.
- Plus Plan
Words With Y as a Vowel - Word List
Introduce and explore words containing the letter “y” making a vowel sound with this y vowel word list.
- Plus Plan
Long A Word List
Introduce and explore words containing letter combinations that make the “long a” sound with this printable long A word list.
- Plus Plan
Fall Math - Addition to 10 Task Cards
Practice addition up to 10 with this set of 20 fall-themed task cards.
- Plus Plan
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.
- Plus Plan
Word Study List - CCVC Words
Introduce and explore words containing the consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant pattern with this printable list of CCVC words.
- Plus Plan
Printable Word List - CVCE Words
Introduce and explore words containing the “magic e” with this extensive list of CVCE words.
- Plus Plan
Long U Words - Printable Word List
Introduce and explore words containing graphemes that make the “long u” sound with this extensive list of words.
- Plus Plan
Word Study List - Long O Words
Introduce and explore words containing graphemes that make the “long o” sound with this extensive list of words.
- Plus Plan
Twelve Days of Kindness – Christmas Challenge Worksheet
Challenge your students to commit 12 random acts of Christmas kindness with a printable kindness activity for elementary school students.
- Plus Plan
Learn to Read Short E - Daily Phonics for Kids
Teach your students to read short /e/ CVC words with a daily digital phonics instructional slide deck.
- Plus Plan
Digraph Activity - Monster Mash Sort
Build phonemic awareness with a printable digraph sorting activity.
- Free Plan
Character Anchor Charts - Traits, Feelings, and Appearances
A set of 3 posters depicting words and phrases that can be used to describe a character traits, feelings and appearance.
- Plus Plan
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.
- Plus Plan
Christmas Activity Mats
Use these Christmas activity mats during morning arrival on the last day before Christmas break.
- Plus Plan
Worksheet - Spelling Soft G Words & Hard G Words
Practice identifying the soft g sound and hard g sound with this printable two-page worksheet.
- Plus Plan
Phonics Worksheets - Hard and Soft C
Practice identifying the different sounds made by the letter C with this printable two-page worksheet.
- Plus Plan
Secret Number Patterns – Card Game
Keep your secret number pattern hidden as you race to be the first to create number patterns based on given rules.
- Plus Plan
Christmas Symmetry Worksheets - Mirrored Drawing Activity
Explore symmetry with these printable Christmas-themed symmetry worksheets.
- Plus Plan
Effects of Physical Location Sort
Help children learn how the environment affects those that live in a specific area with a sorting activity.
- Plus Plan
I Spy CVCe Words - Worksheet
Identify long e words with an I-Spy worksheet.
- Plus Plan
Word Chain Worksheet - Final -st Blends
Create word chains by manipulating the individual phonemes in words with this differentiated word-building worksheet.
- Plus Plan
Word Chain Worksheet - Beginning L Blends
Manipulate the individual phonemes in words to create new ones with this differentiated word-building worksheet.
- Free Plan
Recycling I Spy and Sort Worksheet
Sort different pieces of trash into their appropriate bins with this I Spy worksheet.
- Plus Plan
Alphabet Interactive - Letter O
Optimize identification of the letter O with a Google Interactive Activity.
- Plus Plan
Mapping Our Classroom - Mapmaking Project
Develop primary grade map skills with a classroom mapping project.