Identifying & Writing Prepositions Worksheets

These prepositions of place worksheets are designed for 1st Grade students (Ages 6-7). Print any one in the set for targeted practice, or download them together as a packet.

Yes. These worksheets work for homeschool, classroom, and tutoring. Use them as a morning warm-up, an independent center activity, or a fast-finisher task.

First graders should understand and use common spatial prepositions: in, on, under, over, beside, behind, between, in front of, next to (CCSS L.1.1i). These are typically taught in context through stories and classroom activities before being formalized as grammar. Preposition knowledge also supports math (above, below) and science vocabulary.

Use physical demonstration: put a pencil in a cup, on a desk, under a book. Read books that naturally use location language and highlight the prepositions. Worksheets with pictures where students identify or complete the preposition (The cat is ___ the box) make prepositions concrete before abstract grammar instruction.

Prepositions express relationships between objects, which is essential for both reading comprehension and writing descriptive sentences. A first grader who can write The bird sat on the branch beside the nest produces much richer writing than one limited to The bird sat there. CCSS L.1.1i supports this vocabulary expansion.