1st grade vocabulary worksheets

Synonyms, antonyms, word parts, and words with more than one meaning. Every vocabulary skill we teach at 1st grade, one to a page. Each prints as a PDF with its answer key, and no two prints are the same.

Vocabulary skills for 1st grade

Compound words Fix it & Choose the word · answer key A compound word is two words joined into one new meaning: sun + flower = sunflower.
Shades of meaning Sorting · answer key Words come in strengths. Glad is a birthday card; thrilled is fireworks. Sorting everyday words from their stronger cousins tunes your word volume knob.
Word sorts (categories) Sorting · answer key Sorting words into groups, animals here, foods there, is thinking made visible. Every word belongs somewhere, and saying why is the real work.

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