What Grade 1 coversEverything your Grade 1 child meets this year, and practice for each part of it.
What they learnGrade 1
Year one is where the pieces join up: sounds become words, counting becomes adding, and children start explaining how they got an answer.
Math
Adding and subtracting fluently, and seeing how tens and ones work.
- Addition and subtraction within 20
- Place value to 100
- Counting by twos, fives and tens
- Telling time to the hour and half hour
- Measuring length
- Halves and quarters
Browse math exercises Advanced math
The accelerated route, which reaches into next year for most of the year.
- Shapes and understanding fractions — reaches into Grade 2
- Make a ten
- Place value — reaches into Grade 2
- Addition and subtraction within 20 — reaches into Grade 2
- Addition and subtraction within 100 — reaches into Grade 2
- Measurement and telling time — reaches into Grade 2
- Elapsed time and money — reaches into Grade 2
- Putting it together on one project
Browse advanced math exercises Reading
From sounding out to reading a page and saying what happened.
- Blends and digraphs
- Reading short passages
- Retelling a story in order
- Answering who, what and where
- Reading with expression
Browse reading worksheets Spelling
Patterns rather than lists, so new words become guessable.
- Word families
- Short and long vowels
- Common tricky words
- Writing a full sentence with a capital and a full stop
Browse spelling worksheets Vocabulary
Working out what a word means from the sentence around it.
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Context clues
- Compound words
- Sorting words into categories
Browse vocabulary worksheets Science
Asking a question, then looking for the answer on purpose.
- Plant and animal needs
- Habitats
- Solids, liquids and gases
- Weather patterns
- Light and sound
Browse science exercises Critical thinking
Reasoning practice that is not tied to any one subject.
- Number puzzles and missing numbers
- Putting events in order
- Comparing and contrasting two things
- Simple logic grids
- Explaining how they worked it out
Practised across the worksheets aboveHandwriting and study habits
Neatness and independence, so the work can speak for itself.
- Consistent letter size
- Copying a sentence accurately
- Following multi-step instructions
- Checking their own work
Practised across the worksheets above