Grade 1 Grammar Worksheets
First grade names the parts of a sentence a child has been using all along. Work here is finding nouns and verbs in short sentences, capitalising names and the word I, and choosing the punctuation mark a sentence ends with.
Seven printable grade 1 grammar worksheets, 70 questions across six skills. Every sheet prints a rule reminder above the questions and its answer key on a separate page, and none of them needs an account.
What a grade 1 sheet asks for
10 questions per sheet, with the answer key on a separate page.
What is on this page
Seven sheets on this page were written for grade 1 specifically. Sheets for the grade either side are linked separately under Nearby grades and are not counted here. The skills covered, largest first, are Parts of Speech (2), Capitalization Rules (1), Punctuation (1), Sentence Structure (1), Pronoun Usage (1) and Verb Tenses (1).
Between them the grade 1 sheets come to 70 questions across three question types: 7 × identify, 4 × sort and 3 × fill in the blank. Nothing at grade 1 is answered on ruled lines — every response is circled, sorted, or written into a printed blank — which is why these sheets mark quickly and fit on one side.
The topics a grade 1 sheet covers
Seven distinct topics are covered at grade 1: complete sentences and fragments, end punctuation, nouns, present tense, pronouns, pronouns and their antecedents and sentence beginnings and the pronoun i. Each has its own sheet, its own rule box and its own answer key, so none of them is a variation on the one above it.
How a grade 1 sheet asks its questions
Grade 1 sits in the k-2 band, which this site calls recognition work. Simple identification. The student circles, underlines, matches or chooses from two or three printed options. Any writing is a single word or a short sentence copied and corrected — never composed from nothing.
21 rule statements are printed across the grade 1 sheets, in a box above the questions rather than assumed from a lesson last week — so a sheet tests whether the rule can be applied, not whether it was remembered. Altogether a student reads about 852 words to work through everything on this page.
Sentences of 4 to 8 words, one clause, high-frequency vocabulary a 5 to 8 year old reads independently. Concrete subjects: animals, family, school, food, weather, play. That is the reading level these sheets are written to, and it is worth checking against a particular class before printing a set: a sheet pitched right on the grammar and wrong on the reading fails the same child either way.
Skills at this grade
Parts of Speech
All parts of speech →Finding Nouns in Sentences Worksheet — Grade 1
Grade 1 students identify nouns in short sentences about animals and school, then sort single words as nouns or not, building early writing skills.
Recognizing Pronouns and the Words They Replace — Grade 1
Grade 1 pronouns worksheet where students circle pronouns in short sentences and sort words as pronouns or not, building early word-recognition skills.
Sentence Structure
All sentence structure →Punctuation
All punctuation →Verb Tenses
All verb tenses →Capitalization Rules
All capitalization rules →Pronoun Usage
All pronoun usage →Nearby grades
Written for the grade either side of grade 1 and listed here for a class working just below or just above it. They are not counted in the grade 1 total above.
- KindergartenFinding Nouns in Sentences — Kindergarten
- Grade 2Common and Proper Nouns Worksheet — Grade 2
- KindergartenEnd Punctuation Worksheet — Kindergarten
- Grade 2Finding Verbs in a Sentence Worksheet — Grade 2
- KindergartenSentence Beginnings and the Pronoun I — Kindergarten
- Grade 2Complete Sentences and Fragments Worksheet — Grade 2