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Year 1 Creative writing and fiction worksheets

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Writing task: Your first day back at school

Writing task: Your first day back at school

Can you remember your first day back to school this year? How did you feel? Did you have a new teacher? Can you describe your teacher? What did you do on your first day? Did you make any new friends? Write a few sentences to describe what your first day was like.
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Planning a story with a spider diagram

Planning a story with a spider diagram

A Year 1 English worksheet created by an experienced teacher to help your child plan a story by creating a spider diagram.
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Writing lists practice worksheet

Writing lists practice

Help Wendy Witch write a list of all the ingredients she’ll need to include in her new potion.
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Cover KS1 SATs English 2024

Key Stage 1 - 2024 English SATs Papers

Help your child prepare for the optional English KS1 SATs, taken at the end of Year 2, with some at-home practice. These complete Y2 SATs past papers from 2024 are the official Department for Education papers used in schools.
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Cover KS1 SATs English 2023

Key Stage 1 - 2023 English SATs Papers

Help your child prepare for the English KS1 SATs, taken at the end of Year 2, with some at-home practice. These complete Y2 SATs past papers from 2023 are the official Department for Education papers used in schools.
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Year 1 English Challenge Pack

Year 1 English Challenge Pack

Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 1 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
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Book reviews activity pack

Book reviews activity pack

Help your child explore books and language with TheSchoolRun's Book reviews activity pack, a huge collection of reading comprehension and creative writing resources for Year 1 to Year 6.
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KS1 creative writing toolkit

KS1 creative writing toolkit

Help your child harness their imagination and share their stories in writing with our KS1 creative writing learning pack. Bursting with fill-in prompt sheets and inspiring ideas to get even the most reluctant writer started, it's the perfect way to encourage children aged 5 to 7 to put pen to paper.
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Introduction to onomatopoeia worksheet

Introduction to onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia is when we want to describe a sound and we use a word that actually makes that sound. It can be used for water (splash, drip), air (whoosh, swish), a collision (bang, crash), voice (whisper,
murmur), animals (moo, tweet), vehicles (zoom, chuff). Cut out the words in the table below and see if you can work out where they should go:
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Writing your own version of The Hare and the Tortoise

Writing your own version of The Hare and the Tortoise

Think of two of your favourite animals. What would happen if they ran a race? Who would win in the end, and why? Write a story about it!
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Writing task: Your first day back at school

Writing task: Your first day back at school

Can you remember your first day back to school this year? How did you feel? Did you have a new teacher? Can you describe your teacher? What did you do on your first day? Did you make any new friends? Write a few sentences to describe what your first day was like.
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Writing task: write as Goldilocks

Writing task: write as Goldilocks

Imagine you are Goldilocks. What do you do in the three bears’ house? Write your own version of the story.
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Book characters crossword puzzle

Book characters crossword

Classic characters are unforgettable, whether they're falling down unusual rabbit holes, prowling through the jungle or breaking their slates over unfortunate classmates' heads. How many famous characters from children's literature can you identify in this crossword puzzle?
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Revising and improving sentences

Revising and improving sentences

Write some sentences about what you did at the weekend. Now write some interesting words you know from stories you’ve read. Go back to your sentences. Can you add some of the interesting
words into your news writing?
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Planning a story with a spider diagram

Planning a story with a spider diagram

A Year 1 English worksheet created by an experienced teacher to help your child plan a story by creating a spider diagram.
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Continuing stories worksheet

Continuing stories

Read the beginning of this story. What do you think happens next? Write and draw it!
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Writing: improving sentences worksheet

Writing: improving sentences

Here are some sentences. Using some of the words below, and some of your own, too, can you try to improve them?
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Character thought bubbles worksheet

Character thought bubbles

Using a story book you know well decide what the characters might be thinking at certain points in the story. Write their thoughts in the bubbles, then Blu Tack them onto the page.
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Character speech bubbles woksheet

Character speech bubbles

Using a story book decide what the characters might say at certain points in the story. Write their words in the speech bubbles.
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Writing non-fiction: labelling a picture

What’s your dream meal? Fill this plate with all your favourite foods and then label them so that everyone can see what they are.
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Writing lists practice worksheet

Writing lists practice

Help Wendy Witch write a list of all the ingredients she’ll need to include in her new potion.
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Labelling and describing words

Draw a picture of a family member then label it and add some words to describe them around the picture.
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Favourite words for stories worksheet

Favourite words for stories

For children to succeed in literacy, it’s crucial they have a love of words. Here they need to think about how their favourite words are used.
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