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English worksheets Year 1 Downloads

Download free English worksheets Year 1 to support your child's learning at home. These printable English worksheets Year 1 will help to improve your child's skills with a range of activities and learning games which assist in developing your child's understanding.
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Learning worksheet - Planning
This download encourages your child to improve their handwriting skills by writing directions.
English worksheet - House for sale
This download will help your child to choose words carefully by looking at examples of house details from an estate agent
Spelling words - Crossing the river
This resource will help your child develop their understanding of compounds through a fun worksheet which will aid them when spelling words as they attempt to 'cross the river'.
Spelling game - code race
This resource is great for helping children enhance their spelling skills in a fun and challenging way. Children are in a race against each other to try and discover words behind the number codes.
Learning games - Big wheel
Big Wheel is a great learning game for you and your children to participate in together.
Primary worksheets - How to argue
This primary worksheet will help your child to construct an effective argument and develop a point logically and anticipate objections.
English worksheet - The great debate
This English worksheet will help your child to construct an argument in note form to persuade others of a point of view and present a point of view to their class.
Writing worksheets - Party Poster
This writing worksheet will help your child to understand that information can be shared in different ways and write in sentences.
Primary worksheets - The way to...
Part of our series of primary worksheets, this download will help your child to work on writing simple instructions.
Grammar worksheets - Letters
Practice writing simple recounts linked to a personal experience with this grammar worksheet
Reading and writing - Insect Riddles
This reading and writing worksheet explores tongue twisters and riddles
English worksheets - Perfect weather
This English worksheet will help your child to use captions and complete sentences, using a full stop at the end.
Phonics worksheets - Alphabet dinners
Alphabet Dinners, part of our series of phonics worksheets, will help your child to practise and score alphabetic letter knowledge and alphabetic order.
Kids' worksheets - A sound walk
This kids' worksheet explores descriptive sounds.
Writing worksheet - Something to say
This writing worksheet will help your child to present a point of view in writing eg. in the form of a letter.
Printable work sheets - Which way do I go
This printable work sheet will help your child communicate in different ways.
Worksheets - Would you rather?
This worksheet will help your child to develop and interest in reading and books.
Literacy worksheets - Acrostics
This literacy worksheet will help your child to write an acrostic poem.
Writing worksheets - Loony Limericks
This writing worksheet will help your child to investigate rhyme and humorous verse and write a limerick
Reading and writing - Kennings
This reading and writing activity will help your child to practise using few words to create a highly descriptive account.
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Free worksheets - To Be You
This free worksheet will help your child to use their imagination about their everyday experiences to write a poem.
Key Stage 2 worksheets - The Magic Door
This Key Stage 2 worksheet will help your child write a poem.
English worksheets - Sounds Alive!
This english worksheet download will help your child to use rhythm in words and movement to present a poem to an audience.
Grammar worksheets - Similes
This grammar worksheet will help your child to understand similes and develop their writing.
Comprehension worksheets - Making Changes
This comprehension worksheet is for your child to do on his or her own.
Literacy worksheets - Body Listening
This literacy worksheet will help your child to experiment with a range of words, choosing those that create the best effect in a poem.
Fun with phonics - What a lot of Weather!
This fun with phonics activity will help your child to make patterns of sounds to create effects.
Reading and writing - Patchwork poems
This reading and writing activity will help your child to explore and play with words and use an easy format for writing fun poetry.
Phonics worksheets - Jolly Jingles
This phonics worksheet download covers work from the English curriculum.
Grammar worksheets - What's in a name?
This grammar worksheet covers the english curriculum
Worksheets - In one second
This worksheet will help your child to understand the concept of time and use it as a simple format to write poetry.
Learning games - Guessing Game
This learning game forms part of the English curriculum. It will develop understanding of speaking and listening skills.
National curriculum - In the swim?
This national curriculum activity will improve your child's speaking and listening skills.
Listening activities - Can you see with your ears?
This listening activity will improbe your child's speaking and listening skills.
Key Stage 1 English SATs - Reading question booklet
This test is part of the Key Stage 1 English sats reading exam.
Free printable worksheets - Obstacle course
This free printable worksheet encourages children to create an obstacle course. This activity is for you and your child to do together. Please let him/her take the lead.
National curriculum - Exercises
This national curriculum activity will encourage children to take part in various exercises.
Writing worksheets - Capital Letters
This writing worksheet will help your child to recognise and use capital letters
Free worksheets - Punctuation
This free worksheets will help your child to punctuate a sentence correctly.
Grammar worksheets - Verbs
Grammar worksheets will help your child to learn that a verb is a doing word and practise using them in sentences.
Spelling test - Spelling
This spelling test will help your child spell simple words correctly and make sensible guesses at more difficult ones.
Handwriting practice - Capital Letters
This download will help your child practice their handwriting skills by encouraging them to form capital letters correctly and develop good hand control.
Cursive handwriting - Pencil patterns
This cursive handwriting activity will help your child to practise basic letter shapes and develop a fluent style by tracing and copying patterns.
Handwriting worksheets - Starting to write
Handwriting worksheets will help your child to practise basic letter shapes.
English worksheet - No comment
This english worksheet will provide an opportunity to listen attentively and to evaluate critically the speaking skills of someone who is recognised as a skillful speaker.