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Important update from TheSchoolRun
For the past 13 years, TheSchoolRun has been run by a small team of mums working from home, dedicated to providing quality educational resources to primary school parents. Unfortunately, rising supplier costs and falling revenue have made it impossible for us to continue operating, and we’ve had to make the difficult decision to close. The good news: We’ve arranged for another educational provider to take over many of our resources. These will be hosted on a new portal, where the content will be updated and expanded to support your child’s learning.
What this means for subscribers:
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- In a few months, all resources will move to the new portal. You’ll continue to have access there until your subscription ends. We’ll send you full details nearer the time.
- As a thank you for your support, we’ll also be sending you 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep.
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Year 1 English worksheets
Free worksheets: Word puzzles, KS1, Y1
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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?
Write /oa/ /oo/ /ee/ /ea/ and /igh/ sounds (Phase 5 phonics)
Choo choo! All aboard the phonics train! Check how much your child has learned with this revision worksheet for Year 1. I wonder how many words they can think of?
Engaging With English
Created by an early years education expert, the Engaging with English pack will provide you with lively and original ideas to help bring four popular children’s books vividly to life. Whether your child is in the EYFS or KS1 these activities are the perfect starting point for turning book-shy children into bookworms.
Writing descriptive sentences
This worksheet encourages children to improve sentences by adding descriptive words.
Reading the /igh/ sound
Does the igh sound make you sigh in the night? This worksheet will help you see the light! Practice with all your might and you will soon be soaring high!
Breaking words into syllables
Use this worksheet to encourage your child to read words aloud and then break them into syllables.
Writing sentences in order
This worksheet gives sentences that can be cut up and re-ordered to help children with structuring text.
Reading the /ee/ sound (Phase 5 phonics)
This activity will enable your child to recognise the /ea/ sound, which can be represented by a number of different graphemes, and practise reading and writing it.
Comparative sentences
Use this worksheet to encourage your child to use comparative words ending in 'er' to complete the given sentences.
Blending sounds
Use this worksheet to help your child sound out and identify the phonemes in various words.
Find the rhyming words
Can you find all the words that rhyme with 'right'? An excellent activity to help your child practise listening carefully to see if a word rhymes.
Counting syllables
Use this worksheet to encourage your child to clap out syllables in words and then write down how many they think there are.
Match present and past tense
This worksheet gives jumbled-up verbs in the present and past tense. Children need to match each present tense verb to its past tense form.
Choose 'ee' or 'ea' (Phase 5 phonics)
Sometimes the same sound can be written in different ways. This sheet enables children to choose when to use the grapheme 'ee' and when to use the grapheme 'ea' to represent the sound /ee/, as part of a colouring activity
Find the phoneme (Phase 5 phonics)
A Phase 5 phonics worksheet to help children understand how to use the correct phoneme / grapheme.
Tricky words memory game
Use this memory game to help your child to remember the spellings of some tricky high frequency words.
Designing a poster
This writing worksheet will help your child to understand that information can be shared in different ways by designing a poster for a party.
First reading comprehension
Use this teacher-created reading comprehension activity to help your child with reading aloud and answering questions on a text.
Perfect Punctuation Workbook
Full stops, commas, semi colons, apostrophes… Whatever aspect of punctuation your child is grappling with, we’ve come up with a bumper pack of 60 activities to help them practise, as well as a parent's refresher guide to each punctuation mark and how it's used.
Making sentences
Words for your child to cut out and then re-order into sentences. This activity will help them with understanding word order and how to use capitals and full stops.
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!