1st Grade Lesson Plans
99 ready-to-teach plans for 1st grade, each with a timed sequence and the printable pages that go with it. Free to read and print.
First grade converts recognition into fluency. Children who could identify letters now decode, and children who could count now add. Expect a wide spread in one room.

First grade math takes the counting from Kindergarten and turns it into arithmetic. Addition and subtraction within 20 become fluent, place value starts making tens visible, and measurement moves to real units.
Number Charts & Counting6 practice pages
Number Patterns6 practice pages
Comparing Numbers6 practice pages
Base 10 Blocks6 practice pages
Place Value6 practice pages
Addition6 practice pages
Subtraction6 practice pages
Fractions6 practice pages
Measurement6 practice pages
Counting Money6 practice pages
Telling Time6 practice pages
Geometry6 practice pages
Reading
First grade reading is where decoding becomes reading. Blends, digraphs and vowel patterns fill in, sight-word banks grow, and children start reading connected text for meaning.
Leveled Stories6 practice pages
Children's Stories6 practice pages
Fables6 practice pages
Phonics6 practice pages
Sight Words6 practice pages
Reading Sentences6 practice pages
Paragraphs & Passages6 practice pages
Comprehension Exercises6 practice pages
Spelling6 practice pages
Sentences6 practice pages
Consonants6 practice pages
Vowels6 practice pages
Grammar
First grade grammar names the parts. Nouns, verbs and adjectives get labels, sentences gain structure, and punctuation moves beyond the full stop.
Letters & Words6 practice pages
Nouns6 practice pages
Verbs6 practice pages
Adjectives6 practice pages
Pronouns6 practice pages- Parts of Speech2 practice pages
Sentences6 practice pages
Capitalization6 practice pages
Punctuation6 practice pages
Paragraph Writing6 practice pages
Writing Prompts6 practice pages
Writing6 practice pages
Vocabulary
First grade vocabulary starts using structure. Compound words, simple prefixes and suffixes, and synonyms as a way to say the same thing differently.
Science
First grade science introduces patterns: what plants need, how animals differ, how light and sound behave, and how to record what you observed.
Plants6 practice pages
Animals6 practice pages
Our Bodies6 practice pages
Weather and Seasons6 practice pages
Earth, Sun and Moon5 practice pages
The Environment3 practice pages
Energy, Sound and Light6 practice pages
Material Properties6 practice pages
Forces and Machines6 practice pages
Engineering and Design2 practice pages
Scientific Method6 practice pages
What is in every 1st grade lesson plan
- A real objective
- Written as what students will be able to do, tied to the standard the practice pages are built against.
- A timed sequence
- Warm-up, modeling, guided practice, independent work and a close, with minutes on each step so it fits a real block.
- A check for understanding
- One concrete way to find out who has it and who needs it retaught, before you move on.
- Matching practice pages
- Two to six printables chosen to match the independent-practice step, not a random grab from the library.