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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Capitalization Worksheet - Beginning of Sentences, Names, and Pronoun I
Identify and write correct capitalization in sentences with our capitalization practice worksheet.
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3-Digit Number Forms Worksheet
Help students practice their knowledge of 3-digit numbers with this place value worksheet that covers base ten blocks, standard form, and expanded form.
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Making Connections Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer for students to record text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections.
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Plant and Animal Sort - Task Cards
Sort plants and animals using different characteristics with a set of task cards and picture cards.
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Diversity Craft Templates
Prepare for your diversity-themed lessons and more with 3 versatile black and white craft templates.
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Animal Alliteration Activity - Brainstorming Template
Use this brainstorming template when teaching about alliteration.
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Hundreds Chart Mystery Picture Task Cards
Practice identifying numbers 1-100 with this set of 32 mystery picture task cards.
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Visual Daily Schedule - Spanish/English
Over one hundred general activity cards to use as a visual schedule in your dual language classroom.
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Add a Little Sunshine to Someone's Day - Bulletin Board Display
Brighten your classroom (and someone's day) with this sunflower-themed bulletin board set.
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Alphabet Handwriting Sheets - Individual
Handwriting sheets for each letter of the alphabet.
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Fact Family Find and Flip - Addition and Subtraction Up to 20
Addition and subtraction game cards demonstrating the relationship between fact families.
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Kn, Ph and Wr Digraph Flashcards
Seventeen flashcards showing kn, ph and wr digraph words and pictures.
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0-9 Digit Cards
A set of 0-9 digit cards to be used for numeracy games in the classroom.
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Guided Writing Groups - Progress Tracker
Track student progress during guided writing sessions with this template.
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Ultimate Blends Poster Pack
Supplement your phonics curriculum with a consonant blends anchor chart/poster pack.
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Vowel Digraphs Poster Pack
A poster showing words and pictures for various vowel blends.
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Free Counting From 1 to 10 Activity — Hands And Numbers Template
Teach counting from 1 to 10 and one-to-one correspondence with a creative (and free) printable activity for preschool, kindergarten, or 1st grade.
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Verbs in Pictures Activity
Explore verbs in action using these scenes at the playground and beach.
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Informal Mass - Heavier or Lighter Interactive
Practice using informal units of measurement to compare and estimate the mass of everyday objects with this engaging digital activity.
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Paralympic Sport - Picture Posters
Use our Paralympic Sport Picture Posters to introduce your students to the events held during the Summer Paralympic Games.
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Paralympic Sport Coloring Sheets
Introduce your class to the Summer Paralympic Games with our Paralympic Sports coloring Sheets.
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Whole Body Listening – Poster and Worksheet
Use this poster and accompanying worksheet to teach your students about whole body listening.
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Dotted-Lined Handwriting Paper - Portrait
Use these printable dotted-lined handwriting paper templates to develop your students' letter formation skills in the kindergarten classroom.
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Measuring, Comparing, and Ordering Height – Worksheet
Measure length using informal units with an engaging hands-on collaborative measurement activity.
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Reading Is Magic! Word Search
Download this differentiated word search based on the theme “Reading Is Magic.”
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Ten Frame Mats (Single and Double)
Explore numbers to ten and beyond with this printable tens frame template.
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Amphibians, Fish, and Reptiles Escape Room
Help your students discover the amazing characteristics of amphibians, fish, and reptiles with an exciting Animal Science Escape Game!
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Alphabet Letter-Sound Correspondence Assessment Pack
Assess your students abilities to write their names, identify letters, letter sounds, and initial/middle/ending sounds with a printable alphabet assessment pack.
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Google Sheets Digital Teacher Planner
Start the school year with a ready-made digital lesson plan and record book using our Google Sheets Digital Lesson Planner.
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Common Core Math Standards Checklists - 1st Grade
Track your Math core curriculum coverage with a set of printable 1st Grade Common Core Math Standards Checklists.
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Jellyfish Count to 10 Matchup Activity
Use this match-up activity to help reinforce your students’ knowledge of one-to-one correspondence to 10.
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Following Directions Worksheets - Reading a Clock Review
Practice telling time to the half-hour, quarter-hour, and five-minute mark with a pack of printable Following Directions worksheets.