12 free reading resources for 1st Grade, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
Reading comprehension is about more than finding the answer in the text. Students need to read literally (what does it say?), inferentially (what does it mean?) and evaluatively (what do I think, and why?). Each passage here comes with questions at all three levels and model answers for the open ones.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
A compound word is made when two small words join together to make one new word, like rain + bow = rainbow. Children put word pairs…
Children find the missing letter in short runs of the alphabet, choose which word comes first in ABC order and then put three words in…
Adding un- to the front of a word changes its meaning: happy becomes unhappy (not happy) and lock becomes unlock (the opposite of lock).…
Put words in alphabetical (ABC) order, first by the first letter, then by the second and third letters. Starts with the most common words…
Join two small words to make a compound word, and split compound words into their parts. Starts with the most common words and the…
Choose the word that means the same (synonym) or the opposite (antonym) to build vocabulary. Starts with the most common words and the…
Join two small words to make a compound word, and split compound words into their parts. Starts with the most common words and the…
A passage with questions.
A short, friendly story about a windy day at the beach, followed by questions that check what happened, why it happened and what some…
A very short information text about the bats that live under a bridge in Austin, Texas, and fly out at sunset to catch insects. Children…
A very short recount in which a child tells about a family trip to a Texas rodeo, in order from morning to night. Children find facts, put…
An original three-part story about Tess, who plants a seed and waits for it to grow. Children number the events 1, 2 and 3, answer…
A short original story about Max flying a new kite on a windy hill. Children learn that who asks about a person or animal, what asks about…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.
