Writing Teaching Resources for 1st Grade
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Procedural Writing – Printable Recipe Book Template
Download this printable recipe book template to use when teaching procedural writing to your 1st- and 2nd-graders.
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Alphabet Playdough Mats
A set of work mats for students to write and form the letters of the alphabet using playdough.
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Recount Writing Planning Template
A set of differentiated templates for students to use when planning a recount.
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Build a Fact File Template
Get a sense of separating fact from opinion in texts with this graphic organizer.
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Build an Animal Fact File – Cut and Paste Worksheets
Use this set of 5 writing prompts to assess your students’ informative writing skills.
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Inventing Alliterations Worksheets
Build creative writing and phonics skills with this engaging Inventing Alliterations Worksheet Pack.
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Poetry Rhyming Worksheets
Support young readers as they learn to recognise, generate and apply rhyming words with this fun Rhyme Time worksheet set.
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Procedure Text Poster Pack
Use this set of procedure texts posters to support your young writers understand the purpose and elements of procedure writing.
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Personal Recounts Sequencing Worksheet Pack
Use this set of simple personal recounts to help students learn the structure of a recount by reading, identifying key features, and sequencing events into the correct order.
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Explanation Report Text Examples and Worksheet Pack
Use this set of explanation text examples and analysis worksheets to help students identify and apply key features of explanation texts.
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Parts of Speech Fill-in-the-Blanks Worksheets
Use this set of fun fill-in-the-blanks mad lib parts of speech worksheets to explore parts of speech in a fun way.
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Explanation Text Poster Pack
Use this Explanation Text poster set with your students to clearly show the structure and text elements of an explanation text.
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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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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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Parts of Speech Game Board
Reinforce your parts of speech lesson with our differentiated parts of speech game board.
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Landscape Adjective Hunt Worksheet Pack
Use these worksheets to help your Year 2 students bring settings to life using adjectives in descriptive writing.
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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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Guided Narrative Writing Prompts for Beginning Writers
Help your young writers build confidence with this set of engaging narrative writing prompts, available as both printable worksheets and digital slides.
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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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Printable Fall Booklet (K-1)
Read and write about the colors seen during autumn with our printable colors of Fall Booklet.
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Melted Snowman Craft Activity
Have some winter crafting fun with our Melted Snowman Craft template and writing activity.
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Red Ribbon Week - Write the Room Activity
Use these Red Ribbon Week Writing prompts with your students during literacy centers.
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Printable Halloween Writing Paper Templates
Get creative with your Halloween Writing lessons with our printable Halloween Writing Paper Pack.
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Bubble Map Template - Graphic Organizer
Support student thinking and vocabulary development with a printable bubble map template!
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My Two Homes Activity
Use this “My Two Homes" activity to explore diverse family structures and encourage students to explore all the places they can call “home.”
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Interactive Comma Review Game (2-3)
Play Comma Football, an engaging comma review game to help your 2nd and 3rd grade students practice using commas in dates, addresses, clauses, and series.
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Sort It Out! Common and Proper Nouns Game
Use common and proper noun games to help your students practice identifying examples of different types of nouns.
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End Punctuation Bingo Game
Play a Punctuation Bingo Game to help your early writers learn which end punctuation to use on different types of sentences.
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Adverb Worksheets PDF - Grade 1
Use this printable Adverb Worksheets PDF - Grade 1 Resource to help your little learners practice identifying adverbs.
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Capitalization Review Worksheet Pack (1-3)
Use printable Capitalization Handouts to help your beginning writers learn to capitalize words in sentences.
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Solve and Shuffle - Ending Punctuation Interactive Whiteboard Game
Practice end punctuation with a 1st grade Solve and Shuffle Interactive Whiteboard Game.
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2nd Grade Comma Quiz - Commas in a Series
Assign a 2nd Grade Comma Quiz to assess your students’ ability to use commas in a list.