First grade is an adventure! Kids are excited to learn and always ready for more. With that in mind, we’ve gathered together learning links and fun activities that will help kids build skills in literacy, math, science, and social studies—plus some that are just for enjoyment. This list of first grade websites and activities is something kids can easily do at home with their families.

This video lesson reviews contractions, what they mean and how they are made. The accompanying handouts provide students with multiple opportunities to practice identifying and writing contractions.

This video lesson explores the difference between fiction and non-fiction materials and provides multiple examples of both in which the students are asked to identify whether a story or passage is fiction or non-fiction.

This visual is an excellent reminder for grade one students of the different strategies to follow when encountering new words while reading.

This video lesson reviews and has students identify nouns and verbs. The accompany handouts provide practice with verbs and nouns and writing sentences containing them.

This resource is a checklist that teachers/parents could use to determine if their grade one student(s) are able to use before, during and after reading strategies independently or with prompting. It includes space for comments.

These worksheets help students explore and practice making plurals by adding an s to the end of many words.

This video lesson reviews "ed" word endings and the three sounds that they make . The accompanying handout has students sort words according to the sound of the "ed".

This video lesson reviews the "ing" ending. The accompanying handout has students form "ing" words and draw pictures of what they drew.

This video lesson explores compound words and gives students the opportunity to interactively find them in a variety of ways.

This video lesson introduces the drop"e" rule when adding "ing" to words. The accompanying handout provides practice with adding "ing" to a word that ends in "e".

This video lesson explores how and why it is helpful to have words in alphabetical order. The accompanying handout has students put the colour words in alphabetical order.

This video lesson models for students how to write a story from a picture prompt by considering what happens before, during and after the picture.

This video lesson offers students the opportunity to identify words rhyming with "my" in a story that is read to them. The instructor then goes through "my" rhyming words.

This video lesson reviews using adjectives to describe nouns, as well the use of precise verbs and sentence endings (phrase) when creating interesting sentences. The accompanying handout has students manipulate sentence parts to make sentences.

This short video reviews when consonants have to be doubled when adding "ing". The accompanying handout reviews the rule about adding a suffix such as –ing, -y, -ed, or –er to a CVC word and provides practice.

This short video lesson reviews what homophones are and gives examples. The accompanying handout has students match words that sound the same but have a different spelling/meaning.

With this assessment checklist, teachers assess student's "Oral Literacy Levels and Behaviours" based on whether they perform listening and speaking characteristic independently or require a prompt. It will help teachers to determine if students are early emergent, emergent, fluent or mature listeners and speakers.

These handouts are a great way to have students self-edit and reflect on their writing.

This graphic organizer helps grade one students plan a story with:
- A title or topic
- Beginning: Make it sound interesting!
- Middle: 3 details!
- Ending: Something for reader to remember!