Curly Caterpillar Letter Formation
Year 1 handwriting worksheet: curly caterpillar letters c, a, d and g, spell chip, ship and moth, tricky words and capital letters.
Year 1 Spelling and Handwriting Worksheets
Beginning to form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place, while spelling words with taught sounds.
Year 1 English6 worksheets
Spelling and Handwriting worksheets to download
Lower-Case Letter Formation Practice
Year 1 letter formation worksheet: look, cover, write, check for cat, dog, tin and Sam, then copy sentences and the digits 0 to 9.
Common Exception Words Look Cover Write Check
Year 1 common exception words: look, cover, write, check for said, was, friend and school, missing words and a five-word dictation.
Adding Ing and Ed Endings
Year 1 suffix worksheet: sort 12 words such as jumping, helped, quicker and loudest into -ing, -ed, -er and -est postboxes.
Days of the Week Word Search
Year 1 days of the week word search: find Monday to Sunday in a 10 by 10 grid, across or down. Answer key gives each position.
Adding Un to Words
Year 1 prefix un- worksheet: fill ten gaps in Sam's Big Day with words like untie, unzip, unkind and unsafe. Answer key included.
Curriculum objectives covered
Spelling
“Words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught”
Spelling
“Common exception words”
Handwriting
“Sit correctly at a table, holding a pencil comfortably and correctly”
Handwriting
“Begin to form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place”
Handwriting
“Form capital letters”
Handwriting
“Understand which letters belong to which handwriting 'families' (i.e. letters that are formed in similar ways) and to practise these.”
Handwriting
“Form digits 0-9”
Spelling
“Write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words using the GPCs and common exception words taught so far.”
Spelling
“Using -ing, -ed, -er and -est where no change is needed in the spelling of root words [for example, helping, helped, helper, eating, quicker, quickest]”
Spelling
“Apply simple spelling rules and guidance, as listed in English Appendix 1”
Spelling
“The days of the week”
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Learning the grammar for year 1 in English Appendix 2”
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Use the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 in discussing their writing.”
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Phonics
Applying phonic knowledge and skills to decode words, responding speedily with the correct sound to the graphemes taught across Year 1.
Reading Comprehension
Understanding texts by drawing on what pupils already know and on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher.
Writing
Sequencing sentences to form short narratives, the first step in the Key Stage 1 writing composition strand.
Grammar and Punctuation
Joining words and joining clauses using "and" to build longer sentences, an early vocabulary, grammar and punctuation objective.