English Teaching Resources for Year 1
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OREO® Persuasive Writing Posters
Help students remember the structure of persuasive texts with this fun OREO® acronym.
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Digraph Handwriting - Worksheets
24 digraph worksheets that focus on handwriting and vocabulary activities.
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Character Traits, Feelings and Appearance - Posters
A set of 3 posters depicting words and phrases that can be used to describe a character's personality, feelings and appearance.
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Fiction or Non-Fiction? Cut and Paste Worksheet
Use this fiction and non-fiction worksheet when teaching your students about the differences between fiction and non-fiction texts.
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Build a Fact File Worksheet
Use this fact file template as a research tool when teaching factual writing to your students.
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Year 1 High Frequency Words Reading Mats
Use these Year 1 High Frequency words reading mats to help students identify and read high frequency words.
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Story Writing Prompt Worksheets
Use these early years story writing worksheets with picture prompts and word banks with your early writers.
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Bazinga! Sight Word Spelling Card Game
Play BAZINGA! a sight word spelling game that is sure to boost your students spelling skills.
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Animal Information Report Cloze Worksheets
Get your students to write a simple information report on an animal with this set of structured templates.
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Decodable Text Worksheets - Single Graphemes (Set 1)
A set of 10 decodable text worksheets for early readers.
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Describing Fairy Tales Settings: A Writing Activity
Guide students to describe fairy tale settings using visual prompts and scaffolded writing activities.
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Exploring and Building Narrative Characters PowerPoint
Use this editable PowerPoint template when teaching younger students about how to build a character for a narrative text.
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Types of Sentences Posters
Display a set of types of sentences posters to help your students discover various types of sentences.
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Simple Sentence Picture Prompt Worksheet Pack
Support early writers with this Simple Sentence Picture Prompt Worksheet Pack, featuring 12 worksheets.
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Holiday Recount Worksheet
A worksheet for younger students to use when writing a holiday recount.
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Narrative Text Structure Posters
Brighten your classroom and teach narrative paragraph structure with this set of 8 engaging posters designed to make narrative writing clear and fun for students.
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Exploring Narrative Texts PowerPoint
Teach your students about the key elements of narrative texts with this comprehensive teaching presentation.
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Exploring Procedural Writing Teaching Slides
Teach your students how to write a procedure using this detailed slideshow targeted at lower primary school students.
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Persuasive Writing Checklist Pack
Encourage self-checking with this set of 7 persuasive writing checklists.
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Beginning, Middle End Worksheets
Explore the main structure and story elements in a short story with these beginning, middle and end worksheets.
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Free Rainbow Writing Template Pack
Brighten up your spelling homework toolbox with a Free Rainbow Writing Template Pack!
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Personal Spelling Dictionary Booklet
Help young learners build their writing and spelling confidence with their very own Personal Spelling Dictionary Booklet!
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Year 1 Spelling Words - Weekly Lists
Create successful spellers with printable weekly spelling word lists for Year 1.
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Dot-to-Dot Alphabet Worksheets
Use this set of 3 dot-to-dot worksheets to get your youngest students practising their recognition of the alphabet.
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Information Report Wheel Template
Put away those information report worksheets and replace them with this engaging wheel template!
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Level 2 Decodable Readers - Worksheet Pack
A set of one-pager worksheet versions of the texts from our Level 2 decodable readers.
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Recount Writing Word Wall
A set of 30 vocabulary words related to recount writing.
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Vowel Digraphs Poster Pack
Expose your students to the most common vowel digraphs with this set of 24 posters.
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Sentence Structure Practice Interactive Activity (Lower Years)
Support early sentence construction with this interactive grammar PowerPoint.
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CVC Word Chain Ladders - Worksheets
Build word chains with CVC words using this set of printable phonics worksheets.
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Sorting Text Features Cut and Paste
Build confidence and comprehension with this ready-to-use Text Features Cut and Paste Worksheet!
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Build and Write a Sentence – Worksheets
Practise building and writing sentences with a set of printable Build and Write a Sentence Worksheets.