There are fun ways to practice language and math skills to help your child get ready for first grade. Here is a list of skills kids need to develop for first grade in reading, writing, and math.

This site offers links to several lesson plans for teaching main ideas to first and second graders; it also provides and explains some activities for teaching the main idea to first graders.

This site offers links to several reading comprehension worksheets and tips to teachers for creating reading comprehension assessments for first graders.

This is a lesson plan for teaching storytelling and/or fables to first graders including listening, reading, lesson learned (moral), and follow up ideas.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the differences in the physical body parts of different animals.

This module from a resident educator named Ms. Hernandez shares resources that explain how to discuss media images with their young children.

This site includes two first grade math vocabulary lesson plans: one for measurement terms and time and money, and another for geometry terms

Describes the process teachers went through to create a lesson unit where students first brainstormed what it means to do research, then were tasked with choosing a topic, researching it, and presenting on it several days later. The...

This two-page PDF features the text of four Childhood Poems: "The Swing" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Playgrounds" by Laurence Alma-Tadema, "The First Tooth" by Charles and Mary Lamb, and "Daddy Fell Into the Pond" by Alfred Noyes.

Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.1.6. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are free...

This article focuses on teaching spelling to first graders including Dolch sight words for 1st grade and strategies for teaching spelling such as syllabification, drawing symbols with words, matching words with pictures, and playing...

This article discusses what grammar first graders need to know including how to count out syllables by clapping, what nouns and verbs are and the differences between them, and basic sentence structure (subject-verb-object).

A great site from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute by teachers helping to guide students through the process of writing papers. It explains prewriting strategies, organization, and each draft of a paper.

Great lesson plans covering a wide-range of health-related subjects. Focusing on all grades, teach students bike safety, first aid, a map of their mouths, and stress management. A wonderful resource for wonderful teachers!

Before entering first grade, young children need to have a basic understanding of measurement. They do not need to be able to use standard units of measurement, but they must be able to use the basic attributes to make comparisons in...

Before entering first grade, young children need to have a basic understanding of measurement. They do not need to be able to use standard units of measurement, but they must be able to use the basic attributes of length.

Information about the Mesozoic Era, including details and extensive links about the geology and biology of the period. A very thorough site that is geared toward 5 - 8th grades, but useful for all.

Great lesson plans covering a wide-range of health-related subjects. Focusing on all grades, teach students bike safety, first aid, a map of their mouths, and stress management. A wonderful resource for wonderful teachers!

Conversation skills are important for academic and social learning at all grade levels. This first-grade teacher teaches conversation skills very specifically, starting at the beginning of the year, and provides lots of structured...

This lesson plan teaches first grade young scholars basic chemistry and physics principles--that saltwater freezes at a lower temperature that plain water.

A learning module that begins with "The Plymouth Thanksgiving Story" by Chuck Larsen, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...

This memoir-style book was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, and tells the life story of a Holocaust survivor. Blanca Rosenberg is the biography of Blanca written in first person narrative, as told to the...

Free math worksheets can be created and printed for use in the first to fifth grade classroom. A link to the solution is also provided at the bottom of each of the worksheet.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Answer questions about the halves and fourths of circles and rectangles, and collect coins for each correct answer.