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Writing Worksheets for 1st Graders

5 strands5 ready to print135 worksheetsUS Letter or A4

Writing prompts and planners, sentence writing, nouns, verbs and adjectives, capital letters, punctuation and handwriting.

The writing year, in order

From writing prompts to sentences, grammar, capitals and punctuation and handwriting. Each strand links to its worksheets.

  1. Writing pieces

    24 sheets ready

    Write stories, opinions and informative pieces, with planners, journals and research pages.

    Writing prompts

    Story, opinion and informative prompts with a picture box, a word bank and first grade lines, plus planners, journal pages and research pages.

    24 worksheets

  2. Sentences

    43 sheets ready

    Build complete sentences, join ideas with and, but and because, and expand sentences with details.

    Sentence writing

    Trace, build and fix simple sentences: capitals, finger spaces, end marks, question words, naming and action words, plurals and position words.

    43 worksheets

  3. Grammar

    36 sheets ready

    Use nouns, pronouns, verbs and adjectives in sentences.

    Nouns

    Find nouns, sort them, tell common from proper, make plurals and possessives, and use pronouns, with answer keys.

    16 worksheets

    Verbs

    Find action verbs, sort nouns and verbs, use past, present and future, add -ed and -ing, match verbs to one or more, and choose verbs with just the right meaning.

    10 worksheets

    Adjectives

    Find describing words, describe pictures, sort words by the senses, match opposites, order words by strength and compare with -er and -est.

    10 worksheets

  4. Capitals and punctuation

    17 sheets ready

    Capitalize the first word, I, names and dates, and use end marks and commas.

    Capitalization

    Capitalize the first word of a sentence, the word I, names of people and pets, days and months, and fix the capitals, with answer keys.

    8 worksheets

    Punctuation

    Choose the right end mark, tell telling from asking sentences, add commas in lists and dates, and fix the punctuation, with answer keys.

    9 worksheets

  5. Handwriting

    15 sheets ready

    Write letters, words and sentences neatly on first grade lines.

    Handwriting

    Letters, words and sentences to trace and write on first grade lines, copy work, and blank first grade writing paper.

    15 worksheets

About writing worksheets for 1st graders

In first grade, children start writing real pieces: a story about their weekend, an opinion about the best pet, a page teaching how to plant a seed. To get there they need complete sentences, capital letters and end marks, the parts of speech that make sentences work, and handwriting that others can read.

These writing worksheets for 1st graders cover all of it. Writing prompts with picture boxes, word banks and planners help children write stories, opinions and informative pieces. Sentence writing pages build, fix and expand sentences. Grammar pages teach nouns, verbs and adjectives, and conventions pages practice capital letters and punctuation. Handwriting pages use first grade lines.

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

Questions

What writing skills should a first grader have?

By the end of first grade, most children write a few connected sentences on a topic, tell events in order, give an opinion with a reason, and use capital letters and end marks.

What grammar do first graders learn?

Common, proper and possessive nouns, pronouns, verbs for past, present and future, adjectives, joining words like and, but and because, and words like a, an, this and that.

What lines do the writing pages use?

First grade lines: 5/8 inch from the top line to the baseline, with a dotted middle line.

Do the worksheets have answer keys?

Yes. Every page with one right answer has an answer key. Writing prompts have no key because answers vary.