1st Grade Lesson Plans
91 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
All 23 reading plansFirst 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
- Vowels4 practice pages
Grammar
All 24 grammar plansFirst 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
All 7 vocabulary plansFirst grade vocabulary starts using structure. Compound words, simple prefixes and suffixes, and synonyms as a way to say the same thing differently.
Science
All 9 science plansFirst grade science introduces patterns: what plants need, how animals differ, how light and sound behave, and how to record what you observed.