Grade 1 teaching resources for Canada
Busy Learning About Shapes Worksheets
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Each shape receives its own focused practice page. Learners say and trace the name, colour the figure, write the word, locate matching examples, and choose the correct label or property. Repeating the routine across eight forms supports comparison while preserving one clear target per page. The set mixes conventional geometric figures with familiar visual forms such as a star and heart, so instruction can distinguish formal shape vocabulary from everyday classroom shape names.
Author KD's Kids School Shop
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Tags Learning About Shapes, Shapes Worksheet, Tracing Shapes, Coloring, Preschool Geometry
Camping Dot Painting - A Fine Motor Art Activity
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Thirteen labelled camping picture pages for dot painting, covering twelve words from tent and fire to marshmallow, compass and binoculars, with hiking given two pages of its own.
Author The Connett Connection
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Tags Fine Motor Art, Fine Motor Skills, Dot Painting, Summer Dot Painting, Camping Dot Painting
Careers Worksheet
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We Can Do Different Jobs introduces career vocabulary through visual clues. Students study each worker’s setting, clothing, tools, customers, or actions and write the occupation they think is shown. The directions emphasize that many types of work are available, keeping the activity exploratory rather than prescriptive. Because some scenes may support more than one reasonable job label, discussion can focus on the evidence behind a choice and on how related careers differ in responsibilities.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Have Fun Teaching
Cause and Effect Anchor Chart – Reading Reference Set
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A completed cause-and-effect anchor chart is followed by two fill-in-the-blank versions of the same signal-words layout and sentence-frame structure, for display or interactive notebook use.
Author First in Line
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Tags Cause And Effect, Reading Notebook, Reading Lesson, Fill In The Blank, Anchor Chart, Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Interactive Notebook
CH, SH, TH, WH Digraphs – 6 Phonics Worksheets
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Six worksheet activities practice the CH, SH, TH, and WH consonant digraphs in both beginning and ending word positions, from circling and identifying the digraph to writing original sentences.
Author Clever Crafters
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Tags Consonant Digraphs Worksheets, CH SH TH WH Phonics, Beginning Sounds, Ending Sounds, Early Literacy
Character Setting Plot Activity
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This activity is great for helping students build their reading comprehension skills by finding examples of character, setting, and plot as they read. It's a great resource for any teacher looking to help their students improve their reading comprehension.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Plot, Story Elements, Text Features
Character Traits Anchor Chart – 4-Chart Set
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Two paired anchor charts teach students to infer a story character's traits from thoughts, feelings, actions, and how others describe them.
Author First in Line
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Tags Anchor Charts, Reading Printable, Reading Chart, Character Traits, Reading Notebook
Character Traits word search, scramble and crossword puzzle
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Fifteen trait adjectives — brave, kind, honest, loyal, greedy, selfish, courageous, arrogant, humble, jealous, patient, rude, polite, curious, lazy — are clued by short synonyms across a crossword, a scramble and a letter grid.
Author Lapiiin Art Activities
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Tags Word Search, Word Scramble, Printable Puzzles, Educational Games, Activity Sheets, Brain Teasers, Kids Puzzles, Classroom Resources, Teacher Resources, Crossword
Characters Anchor Chart
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An anchor chart defines characters and identifies the main character as the story's most important, central figure, provided in both a completed reference version and a fill-in-the-blank version.
Author First in Line
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Tags Characters, Reading, Books, Language Arts, Anchor Chart, Character Anchor Chart
Characters, Setting & Big Events Worksheet
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Characters, Settings, and Big Events of a Story Worksheet turns a read-aloud into a three-part story-elements response. Learners identify who appears in the story, where it takes place, and something important that happens, using both a picture and a sentence for each part. The matching character, setting, and big-event sections support a complete response without asking learners to retell every detail.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Story Elements, Identifying Story Setting Worksheets Pdf
Child Abuse Prevention Month word search puzzle worksheet activity
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Protective vocabulary appears inside a large word-search grid designed for introduction or review. Its term bank includes ideas about safety, trusted support, rights, speaking up, advocacy, shelter, healing, and empowerment. The page does not teach a reporting protocol or replace safeguarding guidance; it is a vocabulary puzzle only. A completed companion page supports checking while keeping every marked location out of the visible description.
Author Lapiiin Art Activities
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Tags Word Search, Word Scramble , Puzzles, Worksheet, Activities, Vocabulary, Holidays, Printable, Games, Morning Work
Christmas Day Storyboard
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A six-panel sentence-starter storyboard has students recount their Christmas Day, from Christmas Eve through lunch to bedtime, filling in each panel with their own sentences.
Author Elementary Resources 4 U
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Tags Graphic Organizer, Christmas, Winter, Holiday Writing, Back To School, January, Grammar, Sentence Writing
Christmas Word Search Puzzle + Answers included
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Christmas vocabulary is divided between two twenty-word search grids. The first includes terms such as chimney, icicles, carols, gingerbread, and garland, while the second uses sleigh, ornaments, mistletoe, snowflake, and Rudolph. Directions require searching across horizontal, vertical, and diagonal paths. Corresponding solved grids preserve each puzzle’s exact vocabulary set for checking completed searches. Across both grids, the two forty-term lists broaden the seasonal vocabulary beyond a single cluster of familiar words.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags Word Search, Christmas Word Search, Christmas Activities, Winter Activities, Christmas Games, Christmas Vocabulary, Winter Vocabulary, Winter Games
Cinderella Word Search
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Seventeen Cinderella-themed vocabulary words are hidden in a word-search puzzle, provided in both PDF and editable PowerPoint versions.
Author Good Human Project
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Tags Cinderella, Word Searches, Reading Word Search, Fairy Tales, Literature Activity, Words
Circle Living Things Worksheet
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Circle Living Things Worksheet uses a direct visual sorting task to distinguish living things from nonliving objects. Learners examine every picture on the page and circle the items that belong in the living category. Because the response is marked on the mixed picture set, the completed page shows both selected living examples and the nonliving items that were deliberately left unmarked.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Living And Non-Living Things, Circle Living Room
Circle Numbers 1 to 100 – Black and White Printable
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Black-and-white circles isolate every numeral from 1 through 100 on an individual flashcard. The uniform shape allows selected values to be sorted, compared, or placed into an ascending sequence without a competing visual theme. Nineteen printable pages distribute the cards across manageable sheets before cutting or display. Their monochrome treatment also keeps the number forms clear when learners search for a requested value.
Author EDITORIAL LAURA EDUCA
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Tags Numbers, Numbers 1 To 100, Circle Numbers, Numbers For Kids, Flashcards Numbers
Circling Examples of Green Worksheet
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Circling Examples of Green uses visual discrimination rather than colouring production. In every row, learners compare the pictured choices, identify which one is green, and circle it. Repeating the decision across several sets reinforces stable colour recognition while requiring attention to one target among distractors. The compact response is useful for students who are still developing pencil control or for a quick check that the colour word green is understood independently of a matching crayon cue.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Colors, Green Worksheet
Citing Text Evidence Anchor Chart – 3-Chart Set
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R.A.C.E. — restate, answer, cite, explain — is laid out as a display chart in three versions: bare steps, guided steps and a fill-in-the-blank copy. Three versions of the same R.A.C.E. chart move from a plain step list to guided wording to a fill-in-the-blank recall check.
Author First in Line
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Tags Reading Printable, Reading Poster, Anchor Chart, Text Evidence, Reading Questions, Citing Textual Evidence Practice Pdf, How To Teach Text Evidence, Citing Text Evidence, Cite A Chart, Citing Textual Evidence, Citing Textual Evidence Activities For Middle School
Classroom Behaviour Chart
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A four-level clip chart — Wow!, Way to Go, Ready to Learn, and Stop & Think — pairs with numbered magnet tabs so the teacher can move students between behaviour levels.
Author O'Hoppy Day
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Tags Behavior Chart, Classroom Decor, Graphics, Classroom Management, Classroom, Behavior, Chart, Behavior Management
Collaboration Worksheet
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The page explains that learners should follow group rules while reading a text aloud or discussing a topic. Four identical monitoring forms each provide space for a name and five observable collaboration behaviours. Stars can be filled as a student takes turns, responds to questions, asks questions, remains on topic, and respects others’ ideas. The design supports real-time observation of participation rather than a written reflection or content quiz.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Speaking And Listening
Colour by Code Worksheets for Addition Facts
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Addition facts ranging from simple single-digit sums up to totals of 20 are solved and then colour-coded to reveal a picture across a set of colour-by-number pages.
Author LAMO
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Tags Centers, Printables, Math, Numbers, Worksheets, Coloring
Monster Addition Doubles Facts – Colour by Number
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The ten addition doubles facts from 1+1 through 10+10 are scattered across four monster-themed colour-by-number pictures.
Author WORDS ASIDE
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Tags Color By Number, Monster Addition, Doubles Facts, Math Worksheets, What Is A Doubles Fact, What Is Double Facts Addition, Addition Doubles
Combining and Expanding Sentences – Writing Practice
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Five sentence pairs or short ideas serve as starting points for revision. Learners combine related information or expand a basic statement, choosing adjectives and adverbs as well as more precise nouns and verbs. Because wording can vary, the work emphasizes richer expression and logical sentence construction rather than one fixed response. A second page offers completed possibilities for checking while recognizing that other well-formed revisions may also succeed.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Parts Of Speech, Expanded Sentences Worksheets, Sentence Expansion Activities, How To Expand Sentences, Expanded Sentences, Expanding A Sentence, Expand Sentences Worksheet
Community Helpers Stick Puppets – 16 Character Set
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Twelve community-helper stick-puppet characters, in both black-and-white and colour versions, pair with a bonus community-map worksheet for a social-studies unit on neighbourhood jobs.
Author Kindergarten Cafe
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Tags Community, Helpers, Stick, Puppets, Activity, Printable Community Helper Puppets Template, Free Printable Community Helper Puppets Template