Free Year 1 English Worksheets for Teachers

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Phonics and Spelling
Phonics and Spelling

Phonics and Spelling

Practise phonics and spelling with this free, printable Year 1 worksheet. 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 worksheet is ready to print and use 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 print for free.

Writing
Writing

Writing

Help your Year 1 students build writing skills with this editable worksheet. 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 worksheet 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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Year 1 is a big year for reading. Students consolidate short vowels, take on long vowels, digraphs and blends, and begin writing sentences of their own. These Year 1 English worksheets support the full spread of the year: phonics and spelling, reading comprehension, writing, and grammar and punctuation.

The activities map directly to Australian Curriculum v9.0 objectives, from recognising short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and blends, to discussing characters and events in literary texts, creating short imaginative and informative texts, and punctuating sentences with capital letters and full stops. Each worksheet lists the objectives it covers, so you can see the curriculum fit before you print.

Teachers slot these into guided reading follow-ups, daily review, literacy rotations and homework. And because Year 1 classes span a wide range of readers, every worksheet can be edited and regenerated in Chalkie, so you can produce a decodable version for one group and a stretch version for another.

What Year 1 English covers

  • Phonics and Spelling

    Covers recognising 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 and share personal responses with others.

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  • Writing

    Focuses on creating short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure.

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  • Grammar and Punctuation

    Covers recognising that sentences are key units for expressing ideas, and punctuating them with capital letters and full stops.

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