These First Grade Back to School Worksheets provide flexible literacy and math review for the beginning of the school year. Children arrive with different levels of confidence and a wide range of skills, so having a varied collection of activities ready makes it easier to identify where each child needs support.
This 117-page packet includes phonics, sight words, grammar, reading comprehension, number sense, addition, subtraction, measurement, graphing, shapes, fractions, money, and much more. You can choose the pages that match your students’ needs instead of trying to complete the packet in order.
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Would you like to look more closely before purchasing the complete packet? I have included free sample pages that you can download and use with your children.
The sample will give you a closer look at the worksheet layout, directions, illustrations, and different activity formats included in the complete resource.
First Grade Back to School Worksheets for Skill Review
The first few weeks of school are an important time for reviewing previously learned concepts. These worksheets provide opportunities to observe how children approach different tasks and identify the skills that may need additional instruction.
The packet includes a mixture of tracing, coloring, writing, matching, sorting, counting, and cut-and-paste activities. This variety keeps the practice interesting while giving children opportunities to work with familiar classroom materials.
The pages can be used for morning work, literacy and math centers, small groups, independent practice, homework, early finishers, or informal assessment.
First Grade Literacy Worksheets
Alphabet and Phonemic Awareness
The literacy section begins with alphabet tracing and uppercase and lowercase letter matching. These activities provide a gentle review of letter recognition and formation before children move on to more advanced phonics skills.
Children then work with beginning, middle, and ending sounds. Some pages ask children to select the correct sound from several choices, while others require them to write the missing sound independently.
Syllable activities help children listen for parts within spoken words. Onset and rime worksheets encourage them to recognize and build familiar word patterns.
Short Vowels, Long Vowels, Blends, and Digraphs
The CVC word worksheets focus separately on short A, E, I, O, and U words. Children look at each picture and write its beginning, middle, and ending sounds.
Long and short vowel activities use simple color codes to help children distinguish between vowel sounds. Separate pages are included for A, E, I, O, and U.
Beginning blend and digraph worksheets provide both recognition and writing practice. Children select or write the sounds they hear in illustrated words, including words beginning with ch, sh, and th.
Sight Words and Word Work
Ten sight word color-by-code pages provide practice with pre-primer and primer words. Six sight word scramble pages focus on first grade words. Children rearrange the letters and match each scrambled word to the correctly written word.
Children can also sort real and nonsense words, build compound words, make words with letter tiles, and complete a school-themed word search.
The Making Words activity includes a strip of letter tiles. Children cut out and rearrange the letters, then record the words they create. It is an open-ended activity that can be completed independently or with a partner.
Grammar and Sentence Skills
The grammar section begins with complete and incomplete sentences. Children sort sentence strips according to whether each group of words expresses a complete thought.
Additional sentence activities cover statements, questions, commands, exclamations, capital letters, and ending punctuation. The Fix the Sentences page asks children to rewrite sentences correctly.
Children also practice identifying nouns, plural nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions. The activities include selecting answers, matching words and pictures, completing color codes, and sorting cut-apart pieces.
Other language activities cover contractions, alphabetical order, antonyms, synonyms, and compound words. A short reading passage and comprehension questions are also included for children who are ready to respond using complete sentences.
First Grade Math Worksheets
Counting and Number Sense
The math section begins with number formation and recognition. Children trace numbers from 1 to 20 and match numerals to groups of objects.
Counting pages ask children to count the teeth inside colorful crayon boxes and find the matching number. Missing number worksheets provide practice with sequences from 1 to 20 and a number chart extending to 100.
Children can also order numbers from 1 to 20, count objects in ten frames and twenty frames, match numerals to tally marks, read number words, and represent numbers with base ten blocks.
Comparing number activities introduce the ideas of more and less. Skip counting worksheets provide practice counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s.
Addition and Subtraction
The addition pages include visual support through crayons and ten frames. Children solve problems, find missing addends, explore different ways to make 10, and sort equations according to whether their sums are less than or more than 10.
Subtraction activities use pictures of school supplies to make the problems more concrete. Children cross out objects to find the difference and sort equations according to whether the answers are less than or more than 5.
Graphing and Measurement
The How We Get to School graphing activity includes two connected pages. Children first count the pictures and record their findings on a graph. They then use the completed graph to answer questions and compare the data.
The measurement worksheets ask children to compare three objects and order them by length, height, weight, or capacity. These pages help children develop measurement vocabulary before they begin working with standard units.
Time activities include ordering familiar events by duration and matching analog clocks to the correct digital time.
Shapes, Fractions, and Money
Children sort flat and solid shapes to distinguish between 2D and 3D shapes. A second shape activity asks them to trace and color a school picture before counting how many of each 2D shape they can find.
The fraction worksheets introduce equal parts, halves, and fourths. Children decide whether objects have been divided equally and match segmented shapes to the correct fraction words.
American and Australian versions of the money activity are included. Children use a color code to identify and color the different coins inside the piggy bank.
Ways to Use These First Grade Worksheets
The packet is designed to be flexible. You do not need to print or complete every worksheet. Select the activities that match the skills your students are currently reviewing.
- Morning work: Provide a familiar activity as children settle into the classroom.
- Literacy and math centers: Add cut-and-paste or color-by-code pages to independent centers.
- Small groups: Use selected worksheets to reinforce a skill after explicit instruction.
- Independent practice: Allow children to demonstrate what they can complete without assistance.
- Early finishers: Keep extra review pages ready for children who finish other work early.
- Homework: Send home a page that reviews a skill already introduced at school.
- Assessment: Observe which concepts children understand and where they may need additional support.
- Homeschool learning: Build a flexible review schedule by selecting literacy and math pages throughout the week.
Happy Teaching!
Purchase the Complete First Grade Back to School Worksheets
The complete packet contains 117 pages of literacy and math activities for the beginning of first grade. It can be used throughout the first weeks of school or kept on hand for review during the year.
You can find the complete resource in my Kinder Resources and Teachers Pay Teachers stores.
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