Activities for English Language Arts in 1st grade

Design Your Own Book Cover! Inspire imagination and artistic expression in this engaging activity.

Students are curious kiddos. Teach them how to research with the GAS strategy. G - Goals, what do you want to learn? A - Answers, find the answers. S - Share, share what you learned. Knowing what they are supposed to look for helps them stay focused when searching for the answers. Then they can share what they learned by summarizing it real quick on the last page with a video, voice comment, or voice typing.

This activity, "Jack's Challenges," guides users through the engineering design process, encouraging them to design, test, and refine their ideas. It presents various design challenges, such as creating a treehouse, a pollution picker-upper, a robot, an explorer's suitcase, or a vehicle for the future. The activity emphasizes research, imagination, planning, collaboration, and continuous improvement of designs based on feedback.

This blank handwriting template is perfect for practicing your writing skills!

This blank handwriting template is perfect for practicing your writing skills!

Get your students to write a letter to themselves at the start of the new school year. This is a really easy way to share some powerful messages with them, and it's a great way to boost their confidence and motivation for the rest of their year.

Use this template to show off student work and work on proper peer feedback with Sonia's Gallery Walk using the TAG strategy. T - Tell your classmates something you like about their work. A - Ask them a question about it. G - Give a suggestion for how they can improve their work. Students can place a snapshot, screenshot, video, or show their work in the space provided, and then peers can provide multimedia feedback on the side. Use Kami's Split and Merge to create a portfolio collaborative activity or to remove the directions page to assign individually, then merge them all together after the work is done.

Once the research is done and they know what the presentation is going to showcase, give students this template to help them make a simple presentation in a flash. They can insert images, text, draw on it, and even add stickers to make it fun! Then they can present with confidence!

This interactive CVC template is a fun and engaging way for students to practice making words. Students can drag and drop the consonants and vowels to create the word to match the picture.

Use the Grid Method to create a student-centered, competency-based framework for any subject.

Teach your students the letters of the alphabet with this fun and engaging workbook. Ask them to draw, trace and write each letter of the alphabet to reinforce what they have learned in their lessons. This template is perfect for your young learners!

This Dolch words activity is designed to help students improve their reading fluency and vocabulary.

Journey through books with our handy reading log template! Track your literary adventures and celebrate the joy of reading.

Try EduProtocols Cyber Sandwich! Perfect for beginners, this partner activity builds reading comprehension. Start with shared reading, then let students take on more responsibility until they're working on their own. Use it again and again to power through texts and boost understanding.

Let your students give their mother something to be thankful for this year with a letter filled with love, gratitude, and appreciation that she can save in a keepsake scrapbook or put on the fridge.

This blank writing template with colorful flowers makes it easy to add words and photos for each student to personalize and make their own.

Uncover the story's sequence with our easy and fun activity!