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Year 1 English worksheets

Writing a review

Can you use words and pictures to describe your favourite TV programme? What was it called? What happened? What did you like about it?
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Roll the die initial sound game

Roll the die initial sound game (Phase 5 phonics)

Roll the die and see how many words you can think of that start with that sound.

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Reading non-fiction texts

Choose a non-fiction book to read with your mum or dad. Can you use the contents and index pages? Use the spidergram to write about what you have learnt.
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Ordering non-fiction text: writing a plan

Think of a special event that is coming up. Use this planning sheet to help you remember what will happen when. You can use pictures as well as words.
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Non-fiction: text structure and organisation worksheet

Non-fiction: text structure and organisation

Use non-fiction books to help your child understand text structure and organisation.
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Match the number of phonemes

Match the number of phonemes (Phase 4 phonics)

Can you count the phonemes (sounds) in the words then match the number card to the word?
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Labelling and describing words

Draw a picture of a family member then label it and add some words to describe them around the picture.
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Favourite words for stories worksheet

Favourite words for stories

For children to succeed in literacy, it’s crucial they have a love of words. Here they need to think about how their favourite words are used.
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Describing story characters

Choose a character that we all know from a traditional tale, or one from a story book that you love. Think about what happens to the character in your story, then draw it in pictures.
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Understanding story settings worksheet

Understanding story settings

Stories take place in different settings. Can your child use their knowledge of traditional tales to identify the story settings for these well-known stories?
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Writing a story start worksheet

Writing a story start

Writing great stories begins with choosing a fantastic opening idea and sentence. Help your child practise writing engaging story starts with our worksheet, designed for Y1 children.
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Book reviews practice worksheet

Book reviews practice

Book reviews are a very common writing activity for KS1 children. Help your child get used to the format and including all the different elements with this template worksheet. They can use pictures to express their views, too! Ideal for Y1 learners.
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My first book review worksheet

My first book review

As your child grows more confident in their reading they will be asked to reflect on what they read and review it. Help them get used to reviewing books with our template – they can use words and pictures to share their views. Will they give the latest reading practice book five stars or one?
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Retelling a story worksheet

Retelling a story

As reading becomes easier your child will be able to reflect on story events and sequences more. Help them reflect on stories they enjoy with this worksheet, aimed at Y1 reader and writers.
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Describing characters in traditional tales worksheet

Describing characters in traditional tales

A first reading comprehension activity for Y1 children. Can they describe characters like Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella from traditional tales?
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Roald Dahl wordsearch

Roald Dahl wordsearch

Witches, foxes, earthworms and more – they're all wonderful characters from Roald Dahl's books. See if you can spot the names of 20 children, villains and creatures from The BFG, Danny the Champion of the world, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and other Dahl classics in this wordsearch. How quickly can you complete it?
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Handwriting practice: patterning 5

Handwriting practice: patterning 5

Patterning will help your child practise ascending and descending strokes, rounded shapes and more in preparation for handwriting. Get started today with some cake decoration – on paper only!
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Handwriting practice: patterning 4

Handwriting practice: patterning 4

Handwriting requires good pencil control and precise strokes and movements. Help your child prepare for writing letters, words and sentences with our series of patterning worksheets (very satisfying as well as very useful!).
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Handwriting practice: patterning 3

Handwriting practice: patterning 3

By drawing patterns your child learns to make shapes that are regular, sized and spaced correctly and placed on the lines they're writing on. There's no better introduction to handwriting, so get the coloured pens and pencils out and get patterning!
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Handwriting practice: patterning 2

Handwriting practice: patterning 2

By creating patterns your child will learn to hold a pencil, produce shapes with it and train their muscles for handwriting. They'll also enjoy using their 'handwriting' pens and pencils to draw and colour!
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