1st grade Reading Fiction Printable Worksheets

Take your young reader on an adventure in the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Color the illustrations and practice reading and counting skills too!

Can you haiku? Put your syllable knowledge to good use and count the beats with these seasonal haiku poems.

It’s time to put your prediction power to work! However, no one prediction is guaranteed to be correct. In this worksheet, students come up with three possible things that might happen in the book they select.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Predictions.

What better way to learn about characters in stories than to become one? In this activity, students take on the role of a character as they act out scenes with a partner.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

It's always perfect weather for writing poems! Engage students in writing poetry with this fun activity. Go outside and start thinking creatively!

Reading is awesome! It’s even more fun when you’re reading about subjects and stories that interest you. Help students find books they love in this fun activity.

As students learn to read independently, they’ll undoubtedly run into words they have trouble decoding. This worksheet helps students to reflect on the tricky words they run into and how they can decode them.

As students retell stories, have them use symbols to highlight certain parts in their book, such as question marks to note questions and hearts to indicate their favorite parts.

Students become authors as they dream up the best book ever with this worksheet.

It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of learning how to read. This worksheet has students slow down and reflect on what they’ve learned, as well as what they’d like to work on next.

This reading response worksheet gives the "evil" stepsisters a chance to defend themselves.

As students begin to read independently, they may have questions about what they read. These questions should be encouraged! Have students record their questions about their reading or any unknown words on this graphic organizer.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Predictions.

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Help your young reader hone his critical thinking skills with this worksheet that challenges him to write his own book review.

As students practice reading independently, they’ll run into tricky words. Help them learn how to identify which books are “just right” for their reading level by recording how many tricky words they run into.

Have students practice reading fluency by reflecting on what they’ve read using this fun worksheet. After reading independently, students are encouraged to share what they’ve read, ask questions, and make predictions.

As students read independently, they’ll run into words they have trouble decoding. Have your kids cut out these fun “tricky word” bookmarks to help them to recognize and record these words so that they can practice decoding them!

This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.

Teach kids the art of book recommendations with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet.

This engaging activity helps students practice retelling stories by recounting the details of a favorite story, movie, or TV show. Students are asked to write a paragraph about the beginning, middle, and end of the story, as well as illustrate one of the