FIRST GRADE ACTIVITIES

Calling all 1st grade teachers looking for printable worksheets, activities, games, and more! These quick and easy Clutter-Free Classroom teaching resources for first grade teachers will help you effectively and confidently teach standards-based grade level concepts and skills across content areas to your students through fun and engaging hands-on learning opportunities like center rotations, differentiated small group lessons, projects, PBL tasks and more. Learn more about these resources here!
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A Chair for My Mother Writing Prompts
Are you looking for vocabulary & phonics activities & lesson ideas for the picture book A Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams for 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade or homeschool students? This Clutter Free Classroom Making Words resource exposes kids to spelling patterns & word families after listening to a read aloud about socioeconomic diversity, saving money, goal setting & family. Use this packet as homework morning work sub plans intervention guided reading instruction or centers. Grab these worksheets!
Thank You, Mr. Falker Writing Prompts
Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco is a good read aloud to teach first, second, & third graders social emotional learning lessons about self-esteem, bullying, perseverance, positive self-talk and learning differences. These digital and printable activities by Clutter Free Classroom provide meaningful & interactive ways to practice phonics skills by Making Words using word families & vowel patterns based on this picture book. The editable worksheet is great for word study centers.
Lizzie and the Last Day of School Writing Prompts
The picture book Lizzie and the Last Day of School by Trinka Hakes Noble is a great mentor text to start social emotional learning lessons about the last day of school. Clutter Free Classroom's book companion makes it easy to come up with lesson plans because it’s packed with printable pages, comprehension questions, prompts and teaching ideas. The making words worksheet shown here is just one of the standards-based activities in this differentiated and interactive supplemental resource!
Mother Bruce Writing Prompts
Clutter Free Classroom’s picture book companion (digital & printable worksheet PDFs) for the read aloud Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins includes an editable Making Words activity to differentiate for 1st 2nd or 3rd graders and homeschool kids. Use it to practice vocabulary, spelling patterns & phonics. These word study ideas are for fans of Jan Richardson & Patricia Cunningham. The mentor text teaches about sequencing, character traits, migration and lifecycles. This children’s book has it all!
Last Day Blues Writing Prompts
Engage 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade students in an interactive read aloud with the picture book Last Day Blues by Julie Danneberg for the last day or week of school. Use the phonics activities to develop word study lessons for your intervention or enrichment groups. This resource has teaching ideas to get your kids expanding their vocabulary using simple recording sheets & templates. Grab this quick & easy activity packet for the end of this year to help your kids transition! Add a craft too!
A Letter to My Teacher Writing Prompts
After you read aloud the mentor text A Letter to My Teacher by Deborah Hopkinson to your 1st, 2nd or third grade students. Use Clutter Free Classroom’s Making Words phonics, spelling & vocabulary activities. Our literature-based word study lessons have digital & printable worksheets. The thematic lesson plan ideas, comprehension questions, writing prompts & resources will enrich and inspire all learners. It’s a great book for the end of year or the last day of school.
When it's the Last Day of School Writing Prompts
When it's the Last Day of School by Maribeth Boelts is a great mentor text for teaching the end of the school year. Your elementary students in first grade second grade third grade fourth grade and fifth grade, as well as homeschool will love listening to this picture book read aloud to them. Check out this standards-based book companion resource created by Clutter Free Classroom that’s offered in digital and printable formats. The 30 prompts make it easy to lesson plan.
Thank You, Mr. Falker Writing Prompts
This standards-based book companion for Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco will help you deliver meaningful writing lessons through an interactive read aloud. Teaching writing with picture books engages, inspires and motivates 1st 2nd 3rd 4th and 5th grade students as well as homeschool learners. Make time for discussions about learning disabilities and differences plus bullying by downloading these Clutter-Free Classroom differentiated printables to help you lesson plan!
A Letter to My Teacher
This Last Day of School digital book companion created by Clutter Free Classroom is for A Letter to My Teacher by Deborah Hopkinson. It includes writing prompts for teaching narrative, persuasive, opinion, informative, descriptive, creative, procedural & more. This mentor text & the elementary activities will engage your 1st 2nd 3rd 4th & 5th grade students as well as your homeschool children. Grab these standards-based lesson ideas & printable worksheets based on the End of Year read aloud.
Last Day Blues Writing Prompts
Include Julie Danneberg picture book Last Day Blues on the last day of school or as a mentor text for teaching writing. The teachers at Clutter Free Classroom make it easy to write lesson plans for first, second & third graders. Use the 30 writing prompts based on ideas from the read aloud to improve student’s craft during writer’s workshop, writing centers or for journal morning work homework or easy sub plans. The book companion includes activities for kids in digital & printable PDF formats.
Lizzie and the Last Day of School Writing Prompts
This digital & printable Clutter Free Classroom book companion resource is based on the social emotional read aloud Lizzie and the Last Day of School by Trinka Hakes Noble & includes differentiated activities for first second third fourth fifth grade & homeschool kids. One of the resources is a list of thematic writing prompts based on the mentor text that lend themselves to teaching writing with picture books. Grab these teaching ideas so you can develop fun & interactive literacy lessons!
Mother Bruce Writing Prompts
This Clutter Free Classroom book companion is based on the read aloud Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins which features the lifecycle of geese starting as eggs. It includes writing prompts ranging from narrative or opinion to persuasive or informative, teaching ideas & printable & digital activities for kids. They can be modified to work for 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th grade or homeschool students. Download the templates to start lesson planning & teaching writing skills using this mentor text!
Turkey's Eggcellent Easter Writing Prompts
The picture book Turkey's Eggcellent Easter by Wendi Silvano is a spring mentor text to read aloud to 1st 2nd & 3rd graders. Open a discussion about problem solving, illustrations and genre. Use the Making Words activity worksheet (printable or digital with hands on manipulative letter tiles from Clutter Free Classroom packet to plan interventions, morning work, small guided reading group instruction, literacy center & word study tasks. Integrate phonics, spelling, vocabulary in one lesson!
The Easter Bunny's Assistant Writing Prompts
The Easter Bunny's Assistant by Jan Thomas is a funny picture book teaching self regulation, character traits, problem & solution, and making connections. Use the Clutter-Free Classroom standards-based digital & printable activity packet based on the spring read aloud for morning work, word study centers, sub plans or homework for first, second, and third graders. The Making Words recording sheet templates will motivate kids to practice writing, vocabulary, spelling and phonics skills.
The Easter Egg Writing Prompts
The Easter Egg by Jan Brett is an Easter picture book about compassion, empathy and trying your best. It can be used to teach spelling, word study, and phonics lessons in first, second, or third grade using this making words recording sheet. These digital and printable Clutter Free Classroom activities and lesson ideas turn this picture book into an interactive read aloud that will inspire and engage your learners. Students will love this spring themed text.