Year 1 English worksheets
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Square words wordsearch
Can you find all these Goldilocks-themed words in the wordsearch?
Mini word Sudoku 4 x 4
Put the letters from the word EASY in the squares so that each column, row, and mini-grid contains all the letters that make up the word.
Rhyming words: creatures word puzzle
Practise your rhyming and spelling skills by thinking of names of animals that rhyme with each of these words. There could be more than one answer... how many can you identify?
Have fun with spelling
Does your child’s spelling really let their writing down? Have fun with spelling offers you practical and effective strategies to help support your child’s learning at home, based on a real understanding of how spelling is taught and why it’s tricky to master. The bad news? Your child will be beating you at Scrabble before you know it!
Match singular and plural
This worksheet is designed to help your child understand how to say the singular and plural versions of different animals' names.
Reading CVVC words (Phase 5 phonics)
This phonics worksheet helps your child segment words into sounds and then practise blending the sound together to read the words.
Ordering sentences
Use this worksheet to help your children to re-order words to make sentences that make sense and have capitals and full stops.
Read simple maps
This downloadable worksheet will help your child to work on writing simple instructions.
Recognise the shapes of words
This worksheet encourages children to look at the shape of words to help them with their spelling.
Writing step-by-step instructions
This English download will help your child to explain how to do something clearly and step by step. It is aimed at Year 1 pupils and can be done with a parent or carer.
Rhyming words
Encourage your child to read this poem out loud and then look for the rhyming words.
Explore and play with words
This Key Stage 1 reading and writing activity will help your child to explore and play with words and use an easy format for writing fun poetry.
Singular and plural
This worksheet consists of singular and plural names of animals that children need to match up.
Understand the concept of time
This worksheet activity will help your child to understand how long a second and a minute are and use their knowledge to write simple poetry.
What is a sentence?
This worksheet gives sentences that need correcting with regards to word order or punctuation.
Using captions
This English worksheet will help your child to write captions and complete sentences, using a full stop at the end.
Write your own rhyme
This worksheet gives an example of a poem and then encourages your child to use the writing frame to write their own rhyming poem.
Using question marks
Full stop or question mark? Help your child know when to use which one by putting the correct mark at the end of these sentences.
Reordering sentences
Help your child understand how to create sentences by having them rewrite these so the words are in the proper order.
Capital letters and full stops practice
Your child can practise working with capital letters and full stops by writing them where needed in this list of sentences.
Fabulous phonics
Learning to read is all about phonics these days, so if you don't know your phonemes from your digraphs our phonics learning pack is for you. You'll get a complete overview of how and why phonics is taught, as well as teacher tips to help you make phonics learning part of your child's everyday life and 50 printable games and activities to put the theory into practice.
Talking about dilemmas
This worksheet gives various school scenarios which children are encouraged to consider. They then need to think about the course of action they would choose.
Spelling the word 'February'
This worksheet gives ideas on how to help your child learn the word 'February'. The same activity could be applied to various other difficult words.