Grade 1 English Language Arts
Letter sounds, rhymes, word families and sight words — plus the jobs words do, naming, doing and describing words, a, an and the, this and these, pronouns, am, is and are, where something is, because and so, capital letters and full stops, telling and asking sentences, family, body and animal words, and reading a picture.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Reading: Foundational Skills
Language
- OppositesLesson
Match a word to the word that means the opposite.
- Naming wordsLesson
Find the word that names a person, an animal, a place or a thing.
- Action wordsLesson
Find the word that tells you what someone is doing.
- First describing wordsLesson
Find the word that tells you more about a person, an animal or a thing.
- A and anLesson
Choose 'a' or 'an' before a naming word.
- This, that, these, thoseLesson
Point at things with the right word for one or many, near or far.
- Capital letters and periodsLesson
Start a sentence with a capital letter and end it with a period.
- Making a sentenceLesson
Put two or three words in the right order to make a sentence.
- Family wordsLesson
Name the people in a family and say how they are related to you.
- Parts of the bodyLesson
Name the parts of your body and say what each one does.
- Animal wordsLesson
Name animals, their homes and their babies.
- DeterminersLesson
Choose the determiner that fits the noun — a or an, this or these, much or many, some or any.
- Describing wordsLesson
Find the word that tells you what someone or something is like.
- Words that stand for namesLesson
Use I, you, he, she, it, we or they in place of a naming word.
- Am, is and areLesson
Choose am, is or are to match who you are talking about.
- Action words todayLesson
Add -s to an action word when one person or thing does it.
- A, an and theLesson
Choose a, an or the to put in front of a naming word.
- Using a, an and theLesson
Put a, an or the in front of a naming word.
- Where is it?Lesson
Choose the word that says where something is.
- Telling and asking sentencesLesson
Tell a statement from a question and give it the right end mark.
- Articles by sound and senseLesson
Choose between a and an by the sound that follows, and use the when you mean a particular one.
- Because and soLesson
Join two ideas with because or so, and say which half is the cause.
- Prepositions of place and directionLesson
Choose the preposition that shows where something is, or which way it is going.