1st Grade Language Arts Worksheets

Prep your little ones with our free 1st grade language arts worksheets. Build a strong foundation for kids to pick up valuable communication skills with the help of these printable worksheets that dabble in topics from the areas of grammar, phonics, vocabulary, figurative language, and reading and writing.

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Identifying Root Words

A root word is the most basic word without any prefix or suffix. Read each word and identify the root in these printable worksheets.

Circling Consonant Digraphs

In these grade 1 ELA pdfs, young learners have to look at the picture, say the name aloud, and circle the correct digraph that comes at the beginning of the image.

Circling Consonant Digraphs

Filling in Missing Uppercase Letters

Step into the shoes of a letter detective as you search for the missing uppercase letters in the alphabet lineup. Piece together the absent letters to reconstruct the full alphabet spectrum.

Filling in Missing Uppercase Letters

Checking Pictures That Alliterate

Say the names of the pictures aloud, check the pictures whose names alliterate, and cross the pictures whose names don’t.

Checking Pictures That Alliterate

Counting and Sorting Syllables | Cut and Glue

Engage in an interesting syllable puzzle, piecing together vibrant fruit picture cards! Detect and count the number of syllables in each fruit name, and cut and glue the fruit pictures in the appropriate box.

Counting and Sorting Syllables - Cut and Glue

Completing Sentences with A or An

Learn how to use articles with sentences by completing the sentences using either "A" or "An" in these grade 1 language arts worksheets pdf.

Completing Sentences with A or An

Matching Rhyming Pictures

Read the name of each picture on the left and match it to its rhyming partner on the right in this collection of first grade English worksheets.

Compound Words Charts

With these printable charts on compound words, kids can learn the compound words easily by breaking them down into two words.

Recognizing and Coloring Long A Words

Cut down on your prep time with this printable set! Identify the words containing the long "a" sounds and color the chicks featuring those words.

Recognizing and Coloring Long A Words

Identifying Prepositions

Read each sentence, recognize the preposition, and underline the preposition in this bundle of pdfs from our ELA worksheets for grade 1.

Identifying Prepositions