1st Grade Reading Activities

On Education.com, first-grade reading activities help young learners develop essential reading skills like phonics, sight word recognition, and comprehension through engaging exercises such as sight word hopscotch, scavenger hunts, story sequencing with puppets, story flip charts, and act-out stories. Each activity promotes retelling, character and setting identification, prediction-making, and blending sounds to build academic confidence in early readers.

Explore printable worksheets, games, practice exercises, and lesson plans designed to make reading instruction fun and effective. These resources are created by educational experts to support phonics practice, sight word acquisition, reading rhythm, and comprehension skills, providing structured opportunities for students to practice skills independently or with support.

Educators and parents can use this collection to reinforce classroom lessons or support at-home learning. Structured yet playful activities save time planning by providing ready-to-use resources that foster reading skills, spark a love of reading, and build confidence in young learners.