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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All About Me Sundae - First Day Activity
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Printable 2026-27 School Year Calendar with Holidays and School Events
Organize your event planning for the entire school year with this printable school calendar with holidays and events.
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Roll and Write - Telling Time Dice Game
Practice telling time and have fun learning how to tell time with a Roll and Write Telling Time Dice Game!
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Visual Schedule Template - Display Cards
Make your classroom routines visible and understandable with a real-world visual schedule template set.
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Hopes and Wishes Jar - Goal Planning Template
Have your students craft a hopes and wishes jar to set goals for the school year.
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Letter Sounds Games - Four in a Row
Practice applying letter-sound correspondence with 26 picture cards, 26 letter cards, and a beginning letter sounds picture game board.
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Classroom Procedures Checklist
Determine and track which classroom procedures and routines you will teach at the beginning of the school year with a classroom procedures checklist and tracking sheet.
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Math About Me! - Poster & Get to Know You Activity
Get to know your new students with a Math About Me activity.
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Back to School - Get to Know You Dice Game
Play a Get to Know You dice game for students to get to know their classmates.
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10-100 Book Challenge Reading Log Bookshelf Template
Start and track progress through your reading challenge with a fun 100 Book Challenge reading log bookshelf template!
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Student Interest Survey Pack
Use a Student Interest Survey to get to know your new students at the beginning of the school year.
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Father's Day Questionnaire
Celebrate your students’ special father figures with a fun and funny Father’s Day Questionnaire.
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Emotion Strategies Wheel
Help your students self-regulate when they experience "big" emotions with this hands-on emotions wheel with accompanying calming strategies.
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Kn, Ph and Wr Digraph Picture Cards - Free
Use our Digraph Picture Cards to introduce your students to kn, ph and wr digraph words.
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Final e Board Game - A_E
Practice decoding final -e conventions for representing the long 'a' vowel sound with our board game and set of word cards.
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Bump! Subtraction to 20 Board Game
Practice subtraction facts to 20 with a fun and engaging math game.
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Rhyming Bingo Game
Play a Rhyming Bingo Game to help your beginning readers learn to identify rhyming words and word families.
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Sound Wall Classroom Interactive Bulletin Board
Print a complete Sound Wall designed to help you enhance your phonics program by displaying the phonemes your students are currently mastering.
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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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Rhyming Word Cards
Reinforce students' knowledge of rhyming words with this set of 30 picture cards.
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Mindfulness Journal - Daily Emotional Check-In Worksheet
Create a mindfulness journal by printing your students copies of reflective mindfulness worksheets.
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Oxford Wordlist Mats - Words 1 to 354
Use this set of five Oxford Wordlist Mats as a planning tool for high frequency word activities.
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Initial Blends Game
Increase reading confidence with this initial blends game that engages learners while reviewing 22 beginning blends.
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Vowel Digraph Bingo
Play our vowel digraph bingo game to engage your students while increasing their reading confidence.
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Subtract From 10 Board Game
Have a “blast” with this space-themed “Subtract From 10” board game that gives your students the practice they need with tens subtraction facts.
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Differentiated Spelling Bee Word Lists
Prepare your students for school spelling competitions with printable Spelling Bee Word Lists for simple, common, difficult, and challenging spelling words.
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CVCC Word Work Mat
Practice segmenting and spelling simple words with this set of 24 CVCC picture task cards.
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Letter Sound Bingo
Practice applying letter-sound correspondence with a set of 20 BINGO game boards and cards.
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Beginning Sounds Match Dominoes
Explore letter-sound correspondence and beginning word sounds with this set of 52 letter and picture dominoes.
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FIND IT! L Blends Board Game
Practice decoding and spelling words with this board game that focuses on L consonant blends.
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Final 'e' Board Game - I_E
Practice decoding final -e conventions for representing the long 'i' vowel sound with our board game and set of word cards.
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Four in a Row Game - o_e Words
Practice decoding long 'o' silent final ‘e’ words with this set of 18-word cards and picture game board.