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1st Grade English Worksheets Workbook

Five genre sections make up a first grade English workbook: Aboriginal Dreaming stories, folktales from Japan and Sweden, poems including haiku, a procedure and recount about fingerprinting, and informative and persuasive texts about reading.
1st Grade English Worksheets Workbook preview: Five sections of reading texts with activity pages
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Look Inside · 10 pages · answer key included

Cover of The English Series: 1st Grade English Workbook by Brenda Gurr, labeled Photocopy Masters
Front cover of the 46-page English workbook
Workbook contents list five sections, from Dreaming Stories to informative and persuasive texts, plus answers
Contents for the five sections and answer key
Teachers’ notes explain reading, writing, oral language, and text comparison activities across five sections
Teacher guidance for the workbook sections
Section One: Dreaming Stories introduces the workbook’s first section of readings and related activities
Opening page of the Dreaming Stories section
Dreaming story opening: How the Kangaroo Got Her Pouch follows a mother helping a wombat and facing a hunter
First part of the kangaroo reading passage
Kangaroo story conclusion: the mother finds her joey, and the Spirit rewards her with a bag that becomes a pouch
Conclusion of the kangaroo reading passage
The Frill-Necked Lizard and the Flood reading tells how an ignored lizard calls rain that floods the land
Second Dreaming story and its reading directions
Thinking About Characters 1 asks students to describe Mother Kangaroo, Joey, and Wombat and explain the gift
Character activity for the kangaroo story
Thinking About Characters 2 asks about the lizard’s traits, talking animals, and feelings when others ignore him
Character activity for the lizard story

Answer key included

Answer key included
Grades
Grade 1, Elementary
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Updated Oct 19, 2026

Subject
ELA, Reading
Topic
English workbook, poetry punctuation
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The English Series: 1st Grade English Workbook is a 46-page download. It covers a range of English skills for 1st grade students. There are 5 sections in this workbook: dreaming stories, folktales, poetry, a procedure and a recount, and informative text and persuasive text. Within each section, there are texts for students to read. Then there are worksheets for students to complete to enhance their grammar skills.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Sequence events in a story
  • Compare folktales from different cultures
  • Identify the stages of a procedure and a recount

Skills covered

  • Character analysis — describing characters in the Dreaming stories
  • Poetry writing — punctuating lines and writing a poem after reading haiku
  • Persuasive writing — writing an opinion after 'Books Are Better Than Movies'

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Core concepts

  • Folktales
  • Haiku
  • Procedure text
  • Recount
  • Persuasive text

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English workbook poetry punctuation haiku poems folktales reading lessons

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