Title card for Spelling Worksheets Grade 1 with two tilted pages, a look cover write check page and a missing letters page, and notes: 30 weekly word lists, 4 pages each week, tests and answer keys.
  • Title card for Spelling Worksheets Grade 1 with two tilted pages, a look cover write check page and a missing letters page, and notes: 30 weekly word lists, 4 pages each week, tests and answer keys.
  • Four small pages in a row showing the weekly set: Look, cover, write, check; Missing letters; Fix the word; and Spelling test.
  • Eight panels naming the patterns in order, including short a, e, i, o, u; sh, ch, th, -ck; L, R and S blends; a_e, i_e, o_e; ee, ea; and ai, ay, oa, ow.
  • The week 21 Look, cover, write, check page listing skin, spend, spent, stand, stay, step, stop and stuff, each with writing lines and check boxes.
  • Two pages side by side: the week 13 spelling test with blank lines and a score box, and its answer key with words such as rub, cup and hut in green.
  • A missing letters page with a word bank and answers in green such as came, late and same, beside text on words chosen by code.
  • Panel listing the files: a US Letter PDF of 217 pages and an A4 PDF of 217 pages, plus a Start Here PDF, with a word list of all 240 words by week.

Spelling Worksheets

This set plans first grade spelling as 30 weeks of 8 words each, 240 words in all, and no word appears in two weeks. A week takes four pages. It opens with Look, cover, write, check, then Missing letters, then Fix the word, with its letters jumbled, and last a spelling test. A grown-up reads the test from its answer key and the child writes the words on the lines. The weeks follow patterns, starting with short a words like cat and map, and moving on through blends, then silent-e words, then vowel pairs like ee, ea, ai and oa. Code drew the words from a pronunciation dictionary and a frequency list, and a script then tested each word against its week. Neither Dolch nor Fry lists were used, so some common words are not in it. Each week stands alone, so you can skip or repeat any week.

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What's included

  • Spelling-Grade-1-Weekly-Lists-Letter.pdf, 217 pages
  • Spelling-Grade-1-Weekly-Lists-A4.pdf, 217 pages
  • Start-Here-Spelling-Grade-1.pdf, which file to use, print settings

How it works

  1. Four small pages in a row showing the weekly set: Look, cover, write, check; Missing letters; Fix the word; and Spelling test.
    Four pages every week Four pages of one week in a row: Look, cover, write, check, Missing letters, Fix the word and Spelling test.
  2. Eight panels naming the patterns in order, including short a, e, i, o, u; sh, ch, th, -ck; L, R and S blends; a_e, i_e, o_e; ee, ea; and ai, ay, oa, ow.
    30 weeks, simple to harder Panels naming the spelling patterns in order, from short a, e, i, o, u through sh, ch, th, blends and a_e to ai, ay, oa and ow.
  3. The week 21 Look, cover, write, check page listing skin, spend, spent, stand, stay, step, stop and stuff, each with writing lines and check boxes.
    Look, cover, write, check One look, cover, write, check page with eight words, each with boxes to say it, cover it, write it, check it and write it again.
  4. Two pages side by side: the week 13 spelling test with blank lines and a score box, and its answer key with words such as rub, cup and hut in green.
    A test and its key One spelling test with blank numbered lines, beside the key page with the eight words in green.
  5. A missing letters page with a word bank and answers in green such as came, late and same, beside text on words chosen by code.
    Missing letters key A missing letters page with a word bank and green answers, such as came, late and same.

Compatibility and file formats

Print PDF. Page sizes in the files: US Letter 612 x 792 pt and A4 595 x 842 pt. A script confirmed the sizes, that the fonts are embedded and that no ink falls within 0.25 inch of the page edge. Test printing on a real printer has not been recorded for this file.

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Questions

Do the words come from a Dolch or Fry list?

No. Neither list was used. A word such as the or said may therefore be missing, because each week follows one spelling pattern.

How does the test work?

A grown-up opens the answer key for that test and reads the words in order. The child writes them on the lines.

Is there a key for each page?

Missing letters, Fix the word and the test each have one. Look, cover, write, check has nothing to mark, so it has none.

Printer and paper are not included. These are practice pages, not lesson plans and not a reading test. They make no promise about results. Digital files cannot be returned once downloaded; if a file does not open or a link is broken, send a message through Etsy. License: for your personal use only. No resale or sharing of this file. AI helped write the listing text, the how-to text, the page directions, the choice of keep words and the code that builds this file. Scripts tested: each word against its week's spelling and its sound in CMUdict, that no word is in two weeks, that each missing-letters pattern fits one word only, that each scramble has the same letters as its word, and that a key equals its page plus green. No person is claimed to have checked it unless stated here.