Is your 1st grader ready to start reading? If your first grade student knows their letters and the sounds they make, they are ready to dive into phonics to learn all those tricky english rules. But it doesn’t have to be hard! We have lots of free phonics worksheets and fun phonics activities to make it easy! Here is how to teach phonics step by step with your grade 1 child.
How to Teach Phonics Step by Step
Make sure you’ve read how to teach reading first to make sure your child is ready to read, knows their letters, and can demonstrate the sound letters make. Most, but no all children will start to be able to read simple words by the end of Kindergarten. Once they have that solid foundation, it is time to dive into how to teach phonics step by step! Students alreayd know you combine letters to make words, but it is time to give them the skills to sound out harder, more complex words and how to spell them! Along the way we will learn about vowel teams and English grammar rules plus sight words too. Ready to learn how to teach phonics? Kids will be reading and spelling all on their own before you know it!
👉 If you haven’t read our How to Teach Reading article, you should start there to learn when kids are ready to read, how to teach alphabet letters, learning beginning sounds, CVC words, word families, sight words, and more!
Vowel Activities
Vowel Activities
You have probably already talked about vowels, but let’s start by reminding kids that their are two different kinds of letters – consonants and vowels. Every word needs a vowel, they are the sticky glue that hold the consonants together to make words. English vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. Each of these letters have a long sound where they say their name and a short sound. This leap frog talking words factory video was helpful for kids learning their vowels as were these activities:
- Short Vowels – Short Vowel Worksheets, printable short Vowel Bingo game, Short Vowel Printables, Jump Short Vowel Games printable, printable boards short vowel games, Missing Vowel Worksheets clip cards activity, secret cvc words activity, airplane cvc words worksheets, free cvc puzzles, crayon cvc words activity, monster cvc activity, peter pan cvc coloring pages, cooking up cvc rhyming words worksheet, cvc crack the code worksheet, free middle sound activities, sound out cvc words with pictuers pdf
- Long Vowels – Cut and Paste Long Vowel Worksheets, fun Long Vowel Games, free Long A Worksheets, free Long a sound words clip cards, Long a sound words worskheet pdf, printable long e games, free long i worksheets, free long o sound words clip cards, Long U Vowel Words Activity clip cards, ee words phonics game
- A Vowel – Short a cvc words cut and paste booklet, Short a printable books, printable cvc short a words booklet
- E Vowel – short e cvc words cut and paste booklet, cvc short e words booklet
- I Vowel – cvc cut and paste short i cvc words, spelling short i words activity, short i words cvc books for kindergarten pdf, bunny short i words activity, cvc short i words booklet
- O Vowel – cut and paste short o worksheets, printable cvc short o words booklet
- U Vowel – cut and paste short u cvc worksheets booklet, cvc short u words booklet
- Cut and paste long and short vowels worksheetss pdf , free Long and Short Vowel Activity puzzles, Irregular vowels activity, Fall Vowel Coloring Pages, Spring Vowel worksheets for grade 1, Simple recognition vowels art andcraft, dot marker long and short vowel cvce worksheets, free long u words worksheets, and long and short vowels puzzles
- Plus tons of cvc activities and worksheets
Reading Simple Words
Your child probabaly already learned how to start making words by putting together simple CVC Words, rhyming words, and word families. These are all great for building a sense of how words are formed, how to sound out words, and gives your students a way to decode written language.You can review these skills with these fun phonics activities for kindergarten and grade 1! See CVC Words Activities
Word Families for Kids
Word Family Worksheets
If you are working on How to teach word famlies kindergarten, you will love our fun, free printable word family activities and worksheets!
- Short A Vowel – –ab word family worksheets, ad word family worksheets, –ap Word Family Worksheets, –at word family worksheets with pictures
- Short e Vowel – -ed Word Family Worksheets. –eg Word Family Worksheets, –en Word Family Worksheets, –et word family worksheets practice pages
- Short i Vowel –ig word family worksheets, –in word family worksheets, ip word family, -it Word Family Worksheets
- Short o Vowel –og Word Family Worksheets, op word family worksheets, –ot word family ,
- Short u Vowel –ub Word Family Worksheets for fun practice, ug Word Family Worksheets, un word family printable worksheet pages
Word Family Activities
- Dab a Dot – mazes Word Family Worksheets, airplane Word Family Worksheets, cooking up Rhymes with Word Family Printables activity, and lion Rhyming Word Family Activity
- Adorable Word Family Worksheets, free Flower Word Family Match, fun Word family Bump Game, plus clever Word Family Clip Cards printable
- Word Family Sliders with context clues or rransportation Word Family Sliders to learn blends.
- Film strip themed word family printable, spring bubble Word Family Sort.
- Snowman Word Family Printables, Hershey Kiss Word Family Worksheets, chocolate kiss sorting word family activity, cut-and-paste spring flowers word family printable, Easter eggs word family activity, Easter Word Family Worksheets, free Bee Word Family Activity, and printable Patriotic CVC Word activity
- Pumpkin Word Family Printables, pumpkin pie word family activity, Spin and Cover turkey word families, Turkey Word Family Feather Sort, sorting turkey word family activities, and Christmas Tree Word Family for Kindergarteners
Rhyming for Kids
Rhyming Activities
Looking for more practice rhyming? Practice does make perfect as the saying goes. We have lots free rhyming printables to help your children get lots of practice – from puzzles, matching activities, worksheets, games, activities and more. Plus don’t miss these rhyming books for kindergarten.
- Grab these rhyming words worksheet or these rhyming worksheet pages are super cute and perfect for practice anytime!
- We have lots of fun rhyming puzzles to choose: simple rhyming words for kindergarten, robot rhyming activities, pencil rhyming word activity, or baseball cvc rhyming words
- rhyming pictures Clip Cards, Lion Rhyming Words Activities for Kindergarten, Fun Rhyming Games for Pre-k (cute school glue theme), Cooking up Rhymes Kindergarten Rhyming Worksheets with do a dot markers, Lights… Camera…. RHYME! Camera Strips Rhyming word families, or ng words for kids game
- No one does rhymes like Dr Seuss! Try our free printable Green Eggs and Ham Worksheets or One Fish, Two Fish Dr Seuss Rhyming Games
- Find the missing words Rhyming worksheets for kindergarten, Strawberry Rhyming Activities for Kindergarten, Hey Diddle Diddle rhyming pictures activity, superhero literacy rhyming mats,
- Sneak in some practice this fall with these Pumpkin Rhyming Words or these Pumpkin Worksheets and games that work on rhyming
- In December, try these rhming christmas worksheets for kindergarten or these Gingerbread Rhyming Puzzles
- Check out these winter rhyming puzzles to choose from: hot cocoa puzzle winter activities for kindergarten, hat winter theme activity ideas for kinderarten, BUMP boardgame winter activity for kindergarten, cute mitten activities for kindergarten matching rhymes
- Practice rhyming with these fun Valentines cut and paste printables or Valentine’s Day cut and paste worksheets
- Looking for spring rhymes? Try these bunny spring rhyming words worksheets, cute egg puzzles with Easter rhyming words, butterfly printable rhyming games, planting tulips rhyming activity for kindergarten, st patricks day donut rhyming game, rhyming words on these flower worksheets
- or these rainbow activities for kindergarten matching rhyming w0rds
- In summer you’ll love this watermelon rhyming activity these flower rhyming worksheets, this matching rhymes summer activity for kindergarten, beehive Rhyming Games for Preschoolers, or this Bee Clip-it rhyming activity for kindergarten, or this cute smore Matching Rhyming Words Activity
- Super cute rhyming words worksheets pdf or Lots of free rhyming activities for kids
Sight Words
As I’ve mentioned before, rule breaker sight words don’t follow typical phonics rules to sound out so it is extrememely helpful to memorize these words as they make up about 50% of the text that students read. Continue reviewing previously learned sight words and work on the next list of sight words. You can see the sight words list here and lots of fun sight words activities and games here.
How to Teach Phonics
Once students know the letter sounds, vowels, and have worked with blending CVC words and noticing patterns with rhyming word familes, it is time to learn some phonics rules to decifer some of the more unusual patterns words can follow in the english language. Let’s start with blends, Children will learn to sound out the two letters to make a blend that will be commonly found at the beginning or end of the word.
Blends
Blends are two or more consonants that BLEND together but each sound can still be heard. For instance, the words “skirt” and “clock” start with the blends SK and CL. And because all the technical terms are confusing, the term cluster refers to the written form and the term blend refers to the spoken form.
Grab these handy blends and digraphs charts, beginning consonant blends charts, or final consonant blends charts
- Free Blends Worksheets and consonant blends worksheets for Kindergarten and 1st Grade
- Printable Blends Flashcarsds
- Beginning blends (br, cr, tr, fr, dr, gl, gr, pr, bl, pl, cl, fl, st, sn, sm, sp, sl, str)
- Free Printable Beginning Blends Games
- Beginning Blends Worksheets with answer key
- Bugs Color by blend worksheet
- Transportation Sliders Blends Activities (beginning and ending blend options)
- Consonant Blends Activities clip cards
- Initial Consonant Blends Game – l blends, r blends, and s blends
- Trace & Color by Blend Worksheet
- Puzzle Consonant Blends games free – pl, sp, sk, sn, dr, br, tr, cr, fl, cl, sl, or gl
- Graph a Blends Worksheets
- S BLends Worksheets
- Sorting Birds by Beginning Blends Activity
- Leaf Puzzle Beginning Blends Game
- Hands-on l blends worksheets
- Puzzle L blend activities
- Mitten Blends Matching Winter Activity for Kindergarten
- Snowball blends worksheets
- s blends speech therapy game
- Ending Blends (ck, p, d, ck x, ss, nk)
- nk ending blends clip cards
- ending blends activity – sp, sk, st
- Final s blends clip cards activity
- Ending Blends Activities – st, sk, sp, nd, nt, nk, mp, rd, ld, lp, rk, lt, lf, pt, ft, ct
- Ending Blends Worksheets – lp, lk, ld, lt, lp
- Read and color endings blends worksheets pdf
- ng and nk worksheets
- Find and dab ending blends worksheets
- Consonant le Syllable Words Chutes and Ladder Game
- Final Stable Syllable worksheets – unaccented consonant +l + e
Vowel Teams
Now that they know the basic vowels they are ready to learn about how vowels work together in vowel teams to make very different sounds with their own set of fules. Here are the common vowel teams and hands-on, free printable vowel team activities to practice! Vowel Teams are either Digraphs or Dipthongs – see more practice in those categories below.
- common ways to make the “Long A” Sound. Identifying long and short vowel sounds worksheets pdf
- ai and ay are vowel teams that make that are very common ways to achieve the “long a” sound. “ai” is used in the middle of words like rain and remain. The “ay” is used at the end of words or syllable such as pray or maybe.
- spelling long a sound words with magnets,
- long a worksheets – pick the right long a spelling /a/, /ay/, or /eigh/,
- ai words for kids dot marker coloring pages
- ai words for phonics game
- long a activities – handy, reusable clip cards
- Then of course we could use the magic e, such as adding “e” to cap. Once the “e” is added, the a is not short, it makes the “long a” sound, cape.
- Printable magic e worksheets
- Handy magic e word list
- Free bossy e worksheets with dot markers
- And lastly, open door syllables, syllables that end with a vowel, will make the “long a” sound. a/gent and ta/bel.
- Open Syllable Activities cut and paste printable
- Free Open and Closed Syllables Worksheets
- Open Syllable Words list and printable game
- eigh – Words like weight and neighbor have the “long a” sound
- long a worksheets – pick the right long a spelling /a/, /ay/, or /eigh/
- Apple ei vowel team can make long a activity
- ei vowel team game
- eigh words game
- ea – Though normally “ea” makes the “long e” sound, sometimes it will make the “long a” in words like great and steak.
- Three Sounds of ea game
- ea vowel team puzzle activity
- three sounds of ea BINGO
- And finally, we have “ey”. Words like prey and obey have the “long a” sound. And today’s game helps your little ones recognize the words that say the “long a” with the “ey”.
- air sound words phonics activity
- au aw words Turkey feather sort
- au aw words clip cards
- When to use ee and ea apple sorting activity
- ee words for kids BINGO game or these ee word family worksheets
- eu words for kids tic-tac-toe game
- ew sound words 5-in-a-row Game
- ie words for kids cut and paste worksheets
- oi words for kids spin and write activity
- phonics oo sound worksheets
- ow words for kids slide and read printable
- oa vowel team activity with printable puzzles
- oa and oe worksheets
- oy and oi words for kids activity
- oo sound word worksheets
- ou sound words game for students or this ou words for kids memory cards
- Read and spell ue sound words
- ui sound words activity
- Vowel Team Flashcards
- words with y in the middle activity
- y ending words (that say LONG e)
Digraph / Trigraph / Dipthong
Digraphs
As children progress in phonics they work on blends and digraphs chart. Digraphs are two consonants that make one sound such as /TH/ says thumb (phoneme). CH in the word “chair” and PH in the word “phone” are both examples of digraphs. Consonant blends have two constonants that each still make their own sound such as . If you are looking for more blends for kids games, worksheets, and activities? Check out these resoures or see all our digraph activities or consonant activities.
- Worksheets – Beginning Consonant Digraphs Worksheets with dot markers(covers sh, ch, th, ph, wh, kn, and qu) and Ending Digraph Worksheets with dot markers (ck, ng, ch, sh, th, tch, and dge)
- Individual packs that go more in depth: TH worksheets, SH worksheets, CH worksheets, Consonant clusters worksheets, and CH and TCH Worksheets, free ch and sh worksheets, more ch and sh worksheet pages, words ending with ng worksheets, and ch sh th worksheet pages
- Games – Ew Words 5-in-a-row Game, Ending Digraph Games free printable, CH / SH / TH Digraph Games, Digraph Bingo Game, Digraphs Games – several boards covering ch, sh, th, ph, and wh, Puzzles Dipthong Games, Flower Digraph Activity (pr, bl, ch, sk, gr, pl, sh, wh, ph, th), Ice Cream Digraph activity, Spring Digraph activities for kids, and Build-a-Digraph Activities free Puzzle
- Digraph Flashcards
Trigraphs
Trigraphs make a single sound that is represented by three letters. For example: In the word ‘match’, the three letters ‘tch’ at the end make only one sound.
- Trigraph – cut-and-paste trigraph worksheet (learn spl, str, spr words), do-a-dot trigraphs worksheets (squ, shr, scr words), hands-on thr words trigraph playdough mats, free trigraph word list pdf (color and read spl, scr, shr), EAR sound words domino game, ge and dge words boardgame, and free trigraph worksheets (color and read spr, squ, str trigraphs)
Dipthongs
A diphthong is a sound formed by combining two vowels in a single syllable. The sound begins as one vowel sound and moves towards another. The two most common diphthongs in the English language are the letter combination “oy”/“oi”, as in “boy” or “coin”, and “ow”/ “ou”, as in “cloud” or “cow
Year 1 English Worksheets
The above resources are great for adding in extra practice along with your language arts program. If you are piecing together your own curriculum you may want to watch some you tube videos teaching the different sounds or print off the table of contents to a lanauge arts curriculum to check off things as you learn them. Now that you have all the resources you need for first grade, you will be amazed at how their reading skills and spelling improve.
You can print our teaching phonics checlist HERE!
English grammar for class 1
There are various other skills children will need to learn as part of a complete homeschool language arts program. Again, your child can progress through these at their pace, but typically they learn these in their grade 1 English language arts curriculum. Here are the concepts they will learn and helpful free resources for practicing that new phonics skill.
- Singluar and plural (hat / hats, ant / ants)
- Plurals (adding es) – If a word ends in sh, ch, s, x, or z – it needs es to mean “more than one” (plural)
- s to es cut and paste plural activity
- f to ves words
- Suffixes – A suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning or function. These useful, shapeshifting tools can be as small as -s and -ed or can be larger additions such as -ation and -ious
- ed
- ous words
- ion words phonics activity for kids
- learning sion words with printable puzzle activity
- Word Endings: add ed, er, ing (If a short words ends in one vowel and one consonant, double the last letter before adding ed, er, ing (ex: hop to hopped, hopper, hopping)
- Ice Cream Word Endings Worksheets & hands-on activity
- Doubling Consonants with 1-1-1 Rule Worksheets
- Superlatives – adding er and est (ex: big, bigger, biggest)
- Capital Letters proper use
- Subject of a sentence – sorting nouns by person, place, thing
- What is a Verb
- Alphabetizing
- How to make a Sentence
- Build a Smore complete sentence game
- Cut and Paste Sentence Building Worksheets
- Pizza Parlor Sentence Building Games
- Free Printable Sentence Scramble Worksheets
- Punctuation – period, question mark, exclamation marks
- Car Printable Punctuation Games
- Pencil Ending Punctuation Games
- Dinosaur Bones Punctuation Game
- Syllabication – the division of words into syllables, either in speech or in writing.
- Compound Words (windmill = wind mill)
- Learning Compound Words with Block – a fun compound words activities
- Compound Word Puzzles – print the free set in color or black and white (self-checking)
- Apple Compound Words for kids Worksheets
- Clip it Free Compound Word Cards
- Learning compound words for kids with letter blocks
- 5 Free Compound Word Activities – including picture cards, worksheets, puzzles, and more!
- Winter Compound Word Activities – free printable set includes compound word worksheets and snowflake puzzles
- Free printable Compound Words for Kids printable readers
- Fun-to-play and FREE Compound Word Games
- Ice Cream Puzzles for Kids – Compound Words Activity or these ice cream compound word puzzles
- Question Words – What, Which, Who, Is, Do, Who, Can
- Contractions do not = don’t
- Band Aid contractions game printable
- Contraction Bingo Game
- Minion Contraction Games
- Band-Aid Contractions Activity – Free Printable Grammar Game for Kids
- Contraction Dominoes
- Crab Contraction Puzzles
- Floss Rule – When f / l / s / z / is heard after a short vowel at the end of a one syllable word, it is spelled with a double ff / ll / ss / zz /
- Secret Spy letter E (when a vowel is seperated by the e with one consonant, the secret spy letter e helps the first vowel say it’s name – ex: time)
- Phonics Sounds
- ar words
- Car Bump ar words for kids phonics game
- or words
- Tic-Tac-Toe or words game for children
- R Controlled Vowel – ir/er/ur words
- R controlled vowels worksheets – ar, er, ir, or, ur
- R controlled vowels cut and paste activity
- Build-a-Flower r-controlled vowels activity
- Phonics er activities boardgame
- ir words game
- ing, ang, ong, ung words
- ng words for kids Game
- ng and nk worksheets
- Teaching glued sounds ng words clip cards
- gh words
- Slide and read igh worksheest free
- x = cks
- Reading words with x puzzles
- phonic sound for x game
- Hard c and Soft c games
- Silent letters w, k, l, b, g, h, t – w is silent at the beginning of words (example: write), the k is silent at the beginning of words (ex: knot), l in the final syllable (ex: walk), silent b at the end of the word (ex: crumb), g is silent (ex: sign), silent h (ex: hour), silent t (ex: often)
- ph=f words ph = f (phone)
- schwa sound – A schwa is a vowel sound in an unstressed syllable where a vowel does not make its typical long or short vowel sound. Instead, it usually sounds like the short /u/ sound, but softer and weaker.
- Snowman schwa games
- Winter schwa sound words worksheets
- the qu sound says k (ex; mosquito)
- Write and Find Qu Worksheets
- Phonic sound of q game
- y at the end says e (ex: pretty)
- Reading y words for kids
- Phoenetic sound of y game
- ar words
Spelling Practice
If you don’t have a seperate spelling curriculum, I suggest picking 20 or so spelling words a week for your child to work on from the phonics sound you are working on. So if you are working on ending blends – pick words with common ending blends to reinforce the concept. In addition, I always pick 5-10 spelling words my students are missing habitually from their daily writing. You can find free printable spelling tests , hands-on spelling practice that work with any list, and all our spelling activities.
Spelling Printables
- Connect 4 Spelling Practice – spelling practice worksheets pdf free
- Free Spelling Dictionary pdf or printable Free spelling dictionary with ruled lines
- Create-a-Word Holiday Printables
- Kindergarten Spelling Words Add-a-Vowel, Kindergarten Spellings Words pdf, and Kindergarten Word Searches
- 1st Grade Word Search – spelling words fun!
- 2nd grade crossword puzzles pdf free
- Plus commonly misspelled words and how to avoid them
- Money Spelling Words – practice adding money and spelling at the same time!
- Floss Rule Worksheets, Long a sound words with magnetic letters, Consonant Cluster worksheets, spelling with ee words for kids, baseball Schwa sound words, Spelling ck or k puzzles, cut and Paste oa and oe worksheets, bingo Marker ch and tch worksheets pdf, spelling Long a sound words clip cards, ov words spelling, turkey ey words practice, ay and long ai words for kids worskheets
Spelling Tests
- Lego Spelling Tests
- Blank Spelling Test Template – simple, free printable set with lots of options
- Princess Spelling Worksheets Free
- Monthly Spelling Test: August, October , November, December, January, March, May
- Disney Spelling Test
Spelling Activities
- Jumping Spelling
- Hands-on Lego Spelling
- 25 Spelling Activities for 1st Grade, Kindergarten, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and more!Tactile Spelling with shaving cream and printables
- Simple Secret Code Spelling
- Spelling with hotwheel cars
- Mini Cup Hands-on Spelling Activities
- Nerf Spelling Practice
Writing Prompts
Having children practice writing daily is important for early learners. They dont’ have to spell everything correctly, but they need to practice forming their ideas, making sentences, spelling, etc. You can find lots of free printable writing prompts to easily add to your lessons here. Their are writing prompts based on holidays, seasons, monthly guides, story starters, and more!
Free Writing Prompts
We have TONS of free printable writing prompts for elementary age studnets to choose from! You can pick writing prompts based on type, topic, month, or seasonal holiday!
- Roll a Story Free Printable, Caption this picture writing prompts, let’s make a scene movie worksheets, and 5 W Questions Worksheet pack
- On the Farm Writing Prompts, free Farm Writing Prompts with ruled lines and pictures to color
- FREE Printable Community helpers writing activity kindergarten, Opinion Writing Kindergarten Printables Free, 100th day of school activity writing craft
- All About My Pet Free Printable Writing Activity and Dinosaur Writing Prompts
- FREE Printable kindergarten writing paper pdf, free describing words worksheet, and printable kindergarten writing prompts with pictures
- Unicorn Writing Prompts, free Lego Writing Ideas, creative FREE Printable Whale Worksheets
- Jungle Animals Creative Writing about Animals, Fairty Tale Writing Templates pdf, try Pattern Writing, and procedural writing activity
- Mother’s Day Writing Prompts for Kindergarten, FREE Pineapple Writing, Pet Adoption Persuasive Writing Activity
- Star Wars Writing Prompts, Fun Writing Prompts for Kids pdf, Handy, FREE Printable COPS writing checklist
Seasonal / Monthly Writing Prompts
- ❄️️ Kindergarten Winter Writing Prompts pdf, free Winter Writing Prompts Kindergarten, Free Winter Writing Worksheets for Kindergartners, Snowman Winter Writing Prompts pdf, Handwriting Copywork with Winter Quotes.
- What is a shape poem with free animal shape poem templates
- 💌 Valentines Day Valentine’s Day Letter Template, free February Writing Calendar, Free February Writing Prompts Kindergarten, 💋 February Writing Prompts with ruled lines
- 🍀 March Journal Prompts with ruled lines, March Writing Prompts Calendar
- 🌺 Spring Writing Prompts Calendar, Spring Kindergarten Writing Prompts, April Writing Prompts Kindergarten with ruled lines, Lego Writing Prompts for April, April Writing Prompts 3rd Grade Calendar, April Writing Prompts Calendar
- 🌳 May Writing Prompts with ruled lines, May Writing Prompts 2nd Grade Calendar
- 🔆 Summer Writing Prompts with ruled lines, Lego Build and Tell Summer Writing Prompts, June Writing Prompts Calendar, Build and Write Lego Writing Prompts for Summer
- 🍎 September Writing Prompts 3rd Grade, September Writing Prompts with ruled lines
- 🎃 Columbus Day FREE Printables with ruled lines, October Writing Prompts 2nd Grade with ruled lines, Simple Halloween Writign Prompts, October Writing Prompts Kindergarten Calendar, BINGO October Writing Prompts Challenge for Kids
- 🦃 Fall Writing Prompts with word bank, November Writing Prompts 2nd Grade with ruled lines, Thanksgiving Writing Prompts. Thanksgiving Writing Prompts
- 🎄 Christmas Writing Prompts, December Writing Prompts 2nd Grade, Christmas Elf Writing Prompts, Free Printable Christmas Stationary, December Writing Prompts 2nd Grade
Reading for Kids
Continuing to read good quality books with complex story lines and good vocabulary is essential for developing not only reading and writing skills, but proper use of the English language. Here are some resources to help you out
Reading Comprehension
- Handy, book report template in the form of a bookmark (any book: fiction or non fiction)
- Free Printable Book Report Template for elementary age kids, works with any books
- Simple, one page Book Report Templates to ensure kids are understanding the main charaters, setting, and idea of what they are reading
- Super cute Pizza Book Report Idea with Free printable template!
- Book Report Template 3rd Grade and other elementary age kids – lots of free printable choices!
- Printable Sandwich Book Report allow kids to recall the main point, climax, characters, setting, and more in each delicious layer
- 26 more clever Book Report Ideas
- See if kids remember the moral of the story with these FREE Aesop Fables Worksheets
- This Library Scavenger Hunt helps kids learn to navigate a library, the Dewey decimal system, book genres, and so much more with this pack of free printable scavenger hunts for kids!
- Bookshelf Reading Log printable pdf – to help encourage kids to read!
- Handy Book Report Worksheets for elementary age kids
- Reading Scavenger Hunt
- Ralph Waldo Poetry Worksheets
Book Lists
- 50 Books for Kindergarten Book List – books for Kindergarteners to read themselves
- Best Read aloud books for kindergarten
- 1st grade reading books pdf – 100 Books for 1st Graders to Read Themselves
- 20+ Fantastic First grade read alouds picture books
- Best First grade read aloud chapter books
- Top 25 Chapter books for 1st graders, 2nd graders, and 3rd graders
- Best 2nd Grade Reading List
- 2nd grade reading books pdf
- Printable 3rd grade reading list
- 4th Grade Reading List
- 5th grade reading List
- Historical fiction for kids (arranged by time period)
- 25 Exciting Historical Fiction Books for 4th Graders
Learn how to teach phonics step-by-step with free printable worksheets, games, and fun activities for each step!