1st grade vocabulary worksheets

9 vocabulary skills at 1st grade, one sheet each, free with its answer key: action words, body parts, compound words, and more.

Word relationships

Compound words A compound word is two words joined into one new meaning: sun + flower = sunflower.
Opposites, new Two pictures, one word written. The second picture shows the opposite, and its word is in the bank.
Picture compound words, new Name both pictures, then push the two words together. The word you get is the compound word.
Shades of meaning 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 words into groups, animals here, foods there, is thinking made visible. Every word belongs somewhere, and saying why is the real work.

Action words, new An action word says what somebody is doing. Look at the picture and ask: what is happening?
Body parts, new Point to it on yourself first. Then find its word in the bank and write it on the line.
Positional words, new The same cat is in every picture. What changes is where it is, and that is the word to write.
Weather words, new Every picture is a kind of weather. Say what the day is doing, then find that word in the bank at the top.

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