Support first graders with developing their basic language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard rewritten as a positive I can statement, students are encouraged to work hard toward reaching these clear...

It's important for youngsters to understand common prepositions; use this drawing worksheet to give them some practice. They follow directions which, for pre-readers, will need to be read to them. There are four prompts here directing...

Help your early elementary learners write complex or compound sentences using conjunctions. They use the listed conjunctions to combine five different sentences. They then use the space provided to compose a complex sentence of their own.

Get young writers in the practice of editing their work using this punctuation and grammar worksheet. They first read eight sentences with grammar issues, rewriting or checking off as correct. The sentence errors involve subject-verb...

Youngsters add some shapes to this castle drawing before analyzing its geometry. They count the circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares. The objectives here include drawing, recognizing, and counting shapes as well as writing numbers...

Sarah Stewart’s The Gardener and Food from Farms by Nancy Dickmann display the importance of community farms. After reading these short picture books, class members draw connections between farms and the food we eat each day. As a...

Young scholars write a declarative and an interrogative sentence and capitalize the first words in the sentences, then use the correct punctuation. They write two complete sentences.

Ensure that your learners have a strong grasp of when to use -s versus -es when making a word plural. For this instructional activity, class members match words to their correct endings.

Take young learners on an undersea adventure with this fun collection of primary grade activities. Intended to accompany the Kids Under the Sea CD, this resource includes lyrics as well as counting and tracing activities...

Learn all about your new learners' exciting summer breaks with this simple writing exercise. Young learners complete a series of three sentence frames about their summer vacation and their hopes for the new school year before...

Celebrate your students' individuality with this simple back-to-school activity. Offering six sentence frames asking for students' favorite subject, book, lunch, and more, this activity will help break the ice during the first days...

Pre-readers follow directions to better understand relative position and the preposition between. They draw a ball between four sets of objects, then a shape between two sets of shapes. Tip: Have little ones line up, then move them...

Explore positional prepositions as learners follow directions by adding four details to this picture of a fairy. Each instruction includes both an object and its location, so scholars get plenty of review. Consider also allowing them to...

First graders go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find.

Young scholars explore English by completing an interactive computer activity. In this alphabet lesson, students research the Internet to create a picture dictionary which they share with classmates. Young scholars locate digital images...

In this sentence construction activity students read and use 12 common words to build sentences. Students write as many sentences as possible including a mixed up example on the lines provided on the one page sheet.

Pupils listen to a teacher reading of The Little Red Hen, identify the story elements and sequence them. They talk about different jobs associated with providing food and act out a play based on the story. Be aware that although several...

Is that the Easter bunny hiding an egg? First graders use the lines provided on an illustrated wroksheet to tell a story about what they see. A reference web site for additional activities is given.

First graders engage in a reading of poems in colorful language. They become with the interrelation of using Spanish and English words interchangeably in a text. The lesson also builds multicultural appreciation for young students.

Rewrite titles to correct the capitalization. [PDF]

Use any of these sixteen printable worksheets to practice capitalization skills. Most focus on the correct capitalization of book titles.

Provides coloring pages for each letter of the alphabet in three styles: traditional, cursive, and modern. Each page features a printed upper and lower case letter of the particular style as well as an illustration of something that...

Practice initial letter sounds with this game from Scholastic.

This interactive alphabet site challenges students to put a group of words in alphabetical order.