Core Knowledge Foundation
First Grade Skills Unit 6
A unit explores alternative spellings, ways to include nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and prepositions in sentences, and writing personal narratives. Over 25 lessons, first graders participate in whole group and small group instruction....
Core Knowledge Foundation
First Grade Skills Unit 5
Twenty-two lessons make up a unit that focuses on first-grade skills. Scholars examine spelling alternatives—their rules and patterns, practice tricky spelling and high-frequency words, explore plural nouns and sentences, read a...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Unit 3 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 1)
Reinforce math vocabulary with a set of flashcards. Each card showcases a boldly typed word or a picture representation with labels. The topics are geometry related and include terms such as cones, faces, pyramids, sides, and...
Twisty Noodle
Draw the Items—On, Under, Front, Behind Book
Practice prepositions with a drawing activity. The little book has four images of a table paired with prompts. Learners draw items around the table based on the prepositions used in the sentences.
Tobii Dynavox
Sono Flex
Empower nonverbal learners with the gift of gab using this speech and language application. Offering hundreds of picture-supported words and phrases, it's easy for students who struggle with verbal communication to have meaningful...
Curriculum Corner
“I Can” Common Core! 1st Grade Language
Support first graders with developing their basic language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard rewritten as a positive I can statement, students are encouraged to work hard toward reaching these clear...
Curated OER
What's in Front?
Front and back are common prepositions. Early readers will practice understanding relative positions while using common prepositions by placing a check next to objects in front. Then they draw a cat in front of the house. Tip: Discuss...
Curated OER
Beside
It's important for youngsters to understand common prepositions; use this drawing worksheet to give them some practice. They follow directions which, for pre-readers, will need to be read to them. There are four prompts here directing...
Scholastic
Fabulous Fill-ins #1
Where is the cat? Use a word bank with articles and prepositions to complete six sentences about a cat's location. A picture helps kids visualize where the cat is in relation to other items in the room.
Curated OER
Finish the Picture
Explore positional prepositions as learners follow directions by adding four details to this picture of a fairy. Each instruction includes both an object and its location, so scholars get plenty of review. Consider also allowing them to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Phonics lesson for -ick family
Kindergarteners and first graders develop phonemic awareness for words that contain -ick. Each learner gets a stack of cards with different -ick words, highlighting the target sound as they review each one.
Curated OER
The Plane
Prepositions are the focus of this grammar instructional activity. Kindergarteners view the positional words over, under, behind and beside. They make a book about planes and read the words. Students color the pictures.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Tiger Math Graphing
Learners practice various skills using the book Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger. After listening to the story, they create a pictograph using data collected from the text. They also color a picture of a tiger,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Getting to Know You
First graders go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Education: Grade 1: Treasures: Grammar Practice Book [Pdf]
Help Grade 1s reinforce their understanding of the grammar skills found with the exercises in this 158-page workbook. This workbook is designed to supplement the stories from Grade 1 Treasures.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences
Learners can easily grasp the the parts of a sentence with this lesson plan.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Location
Common Core standards specify the requirement for children to use frequently occurring prepositions. Mastering this standard will help students formulate compound sentences as they go up in grade levels. In this instructional activity,...
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 13 (Low Beginning Level) [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of basic past tense verbs that are needed in beginning English.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 14 (Low Beginning Level) [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of basic past tense verbs that are needed in beginning English.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 20 (Low Beginning Level) [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of basic verb tenses that are needed in beginning English.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Action Packed Zoo Sentences
In this lesson, If I Ran the Zoo, written by Dr. Seuss, is used as the mentor text. Young scholars will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Capitalization at the Beginning of a Sentence
This page explains the beginning letter of each sentence is always capitalized, even in direct quotes in the middle of sentences. Examples are provided.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word? Sentences
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. Students must match each word to a sentence to complete its meaning. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach Me' features.
Google
Google for Education: Indefinite Articles
Students identify a pattern in the usage of the articles 'a' and 'an' and then write an algorithm that others can follow to correctly use these two indefinite pronouns, and they identify possible exceptions the general rule.