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Reading Worksheets for 1st Graders

4 strands4 ready to print150 worksheetsUS Letter or A4

Leveled reading passages, short stories, story skills, main idea, cause and effect, fiction and nonfiction, and word searches.

The reading year, in order

From short leveled passages to longer stories, story skills and nonfiction, in the order most first grade classes teach them. Each strand links to its worksheets.

  1. Reading comprehension

    29 sheets ready

    Read leveled passages and short stories and answer questions about key details.

    Reading comprehension passages

    Original short stories and nonfiction passages at three reading levels, each with questions and an answer key, plus read-aloud pages and question pages for any book.

    19 worksheets

    Short stories

    Eight original illustrated stories and two poems, each with a page of questions and an answer key.

    10 worksheets

  2. Story skills

    73 sheets ready

    Put events in order, describe characters and settings, and find causes and effects in stories.

    Story sequencing

    Picture stories to put in order, first, next and last pages, and beginning, middle and end stories to read aloud, with no cutting and an answer key for each.

    36 worksheets

    Characters and setting

    Story maps, retell pages and favorite part pages for any book, plus short read-aloud stories that teach characters, setting, problem and solution.

    26 worksheets

    Cause and effect

    Match causes and effects, choose what happened or why, finish because sentences and find causes and effects in a story, with answer keys.

    11 worksheets

  3. Nonfiction reading

    35 sheets ready

    Find the main idea and details, use text features and tell fiction from nonfiction.

    Main idea

    Find the main idea of pictures and paragraphs, sort details, write titles and fill in main idea and details organizers, with answer keys.

    12 worksheets

    Fiction and nonfiction

    A fiction and nonfiction anchor chart, book cover sorts, real or make-believe sentences, storybook, poem or information pages, and compare two texts.

    23 worksheets

  4. Word play

    13 sheets ready

    Read and find theme words in puzzles with picture word banks.

    Word searches

    Themed word search puzzles with picture word banks and answer keys: seasons, animals, school, food, weather, community helpers and transportation.

    13 worksheets

About reading worksheets for 1st graders

First grade is the year children become readers. They move from sounding out single words to reading short stories and nonfiction on their own, and from listening to stories to talking about characters, events, main ideas and the lessons stories teach.

These reading worksheets for 1st graders follow that path. Leveled reading comprehension passages grow from 50-word stories to full pages of text, and original short stories give children longer reads with questions. Story skill pages cover sequencing, characters and setting and cause and effect. Nonfiction pages teach main idea and details, text features and how fiction and nonfiction differ.

Every passage and story is original. Pages print in black and white on US Letter or A4, and every page with right answers has an answer key.

Questions

What should a first grader be able to read?

By the end of first grade, most children read short stories and simple nonfiction on their own, retell them with key details, describe characters and settings, and name the main topic of a nonfiction text.

How do I know which reading level to use?

Start with Level 1 passages. If your child reads the passage smoothly and answers most questions, move up. If the reading is slow and choppy, stay at that level a little longer.

Are these reading passages original?

Yes. Every passage, story and poem was written for this site, and all of them are free to print.

Do the worksheets have answer keys?

Yes. Every page with one right answer has an answer key. Writing answers show an example.