A full year of 1st grade spelling lists: 36 weeks, 344 words, each week built on one phonics pattern with two heart words. Every list is free below. Weeks 1, 9 and 19 come with all six worksheets free; the rest are in the pack.
Five short sessions, about ten minutes each. The same six sheets every week.
Every week’s worksheets in one file, the same six sheets every week, so your child knows what comes next.
The words with their spelling pattern underlined, and a strip for home.
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Write each word under its spelling. With answer key.
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Say each picture, write one sound in each box, then the word. With answer key.
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A sentence for every word. With answer key.
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Read, trace, write, then cover and write. Optional.
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The words, two new words and a sentence, with a read-aloud page.
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The words with their spelling pattern underlined, and a strip for home.
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Write each word under its spelling. With answer key.
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Say each picture, write one sound in each box, then the word. With answer key.
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A sentence for every word. With answer key.
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Read, trace, write, then cover and write. Optional.
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The words, two new words and a sentence, with a read-aloud page.
Download PDF
The words with their spelling pattern underlined, and a strip for home.
Download PDF
Write each word under its spelling. With answer key.
Download PDF
Say each picture, write one sound in each box, then the word. With answer key.
Download PDF
A sentence for every word. With answer key.
Download PDF
Read, trace, write, then cover and write. Optional.
Download PDF
The words, two new words and a sentence, with a read-aloud page.
Download PDFThe pattern words come first, then the two heart words (♡). Free to copy and use.
Each week follows one phonics pattern, in the order 1st grade phonics is usually taught: short vowels and double letters, digraphs, blends, silent e, two-part words, soft c and g, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, and word endings. Every word on a list, and every word in its sentences, uses only spellings taught by that week.
Two words a week from the 1st grade sight word list. A heart word has a part that does not follow the rules a child knows yet, so that part is learned by heart. The word list marks them with a heart.
Two words on the Friday test are not on the list but use the same spelling pattern. If your child spells those, they have learned the pattern, not just memorized ten words.
Eight in weeks 1 to 8 (six pattern words and two heart words) and ten from week 9 (eight and two), so the first weeks of 1st grade are not too much writing.
Yes. Every free PDF has its answer key on page 2, and the test comes with a read-aloud page for the grown-up that is also its key. The pack has every key at the back, four to a page.
One print-ready PDF with all 36 weeks: the word list, word sort, sound boxes, fill in the blank, practice sheet, test and read-aloud page for every week, a four-page list of every week's test words and sentences, blank word list and test templates, and the answer keys, 287 pages in all. The download link comes right after checkout and by email.
The spelling patterns follow the same order as our decodable readers and phonics worksheets, so a week’s list matches what your child is reading. For heart words, see the sight word worksheets. Older children: 2nd grade spelling words.
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