Free 1st Grade Reading Worksheets to help your students learn to read. Our free worksheets hit several important first-grade reading standards including; spelling, sight words, compound words, CVCe words, comparing and contrasting non-fiction information passages, and reading comprehension. Use these free grade-one reading worksheets to build a fun, hands-on year for your first-graders. Looking for more? Try our First Grade Reading Curriculum or our First Grade Morning Work Binder for first-grade homework.
Reading Worksheets for 1st Grade
First Grade Sight Words
Help your first-grade students learn to read with our free printable first-grade sight word worksheets, posters, games, activity pages, flashcards, and more! Based on Dolch 220 First grade sight word list, you’ll have what you need to cover important reading milestones during the first-grade year. Pair these activities with our free spelling printables for extra practice.
First Grade Phonics Worksheets
There is a lot of overlap between kindergarten and first-grade phonics, so be sure to check out our beginning sounds worksheets, rhyming worksheets, and vowel sounds worksheets for review. First graders can expand learning blends, digraphs, and more.
CVC & CVCe Worksheets
First-grade students can expand on the short vowel CVC words they learned during the kindergarten year by adding “Magic E” to the end! Download and print our free CVE worksheets, flashcards, games, activity pages, and more! Everything you need to help your first graders make the transition from short to long medial vowel sounds.
Compound Words Reading Worksheets
First-grade students read simple passages filled with compound words. First, review compound words with our free printable worksheets, charts, games, and activities. Then provide your students with our Compound words reading passages to begin bridging the gap between learning to read and reading to learn.
Read & Follow Directions Worksheets
First grade students can practice reading short sentences with our free following directions worksheets. Theses are wonderful for the start of the year and include 12 thematic printables for each month of the year. Younger students can use them as listening skills activities, and early readers can practice reading and following along. includes simple tasks based on prepositional positions, as well as easy drawing or coloring prompts.
Compare & Contrast Reading Passages
Build important reading fluency skills while helping your first-grade students learn to compare and contrast! Each informational text passage is on target for first-grade reading and includes sight words, decodable words, blends, compound words, and common first-grade vocabulary words. Students will read each nonfiction passage and organize the facts into similarities and differences. Topics include familiar animals, insects, food, toys, locations, and more.
First Grade Reading Comprehension
Download and print simple PDf reading passages for first-grade students. Reading topics include community helpers. Each passage targets important sight words and vocabulary words for students to build their lexicon during the first grade. Follow-up reading comprehension questions are provided for students to show what they learned from each reading passage.
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