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Phonics and Spelling
Phonics and Spelling

Phonics and Spelling

Practise phonics and spelling with this free, editable Year 1 lesson. Aligned to the Australian Curriculum, covering objectives such as: recognise short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customisable for your class.

Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension

This Year 1 reading comprehension lesson is ready to present in class. Aligned to the Australian Curriculum, covering objectives such as: discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and present for free.

Writing
Writing

Writing

Help your Year 1 students build writing skills with this editable lesson. Aligned to the Australian Curriculum, covering objectives such as: create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure. Sign up free to Chalkie.ai to adapt this for your class.

Grammar and Punctuation
Grammar and Punctuation

Grammar and Punctuation

An Australian Curriculum-aligned Year 1 lesson covering grammar and punctuation, including objectives such as: recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas and use capital letters and full stops. Fully editable on Chalkie.ai. Sign up free to customise.

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In Year 1, English learning gathers pace: students decode words with digraphs and blends, talk about characters and events in the books they read, write their first structured texts and learn what makes a sentence. These Year 1 English lessons cover phonics and spelling, reading comprehension, writing, and grammar and punctuation as presentable slide decks.

The set is aligned to the Australian Curriculum v9.0 across the language, literature and literacy strands, and the specific objectives sit beside each lesson. Use a deck as the explicit-teaching segment of your literacy block, then send students off to apply the skill in reading groups or writing time.

Before you present, you can open any lesson in Chalkie to tweak it: swap in your current mentor text, adjust the sound focus, or add review slides. It turns planning a week of Year 1 English lessons into minutes rather than an evening.

What Year 1 English covers

  • Phonics and Spelling

    Students recognise short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends when reading and spelling words.

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  • Reading Comprehension

    Students discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts, sharing personal responses to the stories they read and hear.

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  • Writing

    Students create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure and sentence-level features.

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  • Grammar and Punctuation

    Students recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas and practise marking them with capital letters and full stops.

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