Here’s a free printable list of 1st grade spelling words.
There are 32 weekly spelling lists with 10 first grade words per list.
About These 1st Grade Spelling Words
First graders will learn to spell 320 words throughout the year.
These first grade spelling lists include 174 FRY words (the first 100 plus 74 others). And 138 of the words are Dolch sight words.
Most of the weekly spelling lists are based on word families. This makes it easier to progressively teach kids the phonics and sounds they need to know to learn how to spell these 1st grade spelling words.
All these elementary spellings lists are secular.
How to Teach Grade 1 Spelling
A typical school year has 36 weeks.
The grade 1 spelling words are divided into 32 weeks.
The first 4 Weeks
Before jumping into learning to spell, kids need to begin to build a foundation in phonics. Spend the first 4 weeks focusing on:
- the alphabet
- the sounds the letters make
- learning to write letters
- beginning to read, etc.
The Next 32 Weeks
You can download the master spelling list for grade one at the bottom of this page. It’s free to download and print.
Online Option
You could also view the words online at the links below. The links include the phonics skills to teach kids weekly. There is also a free printable weekly word shapes puzzle to go along with the weekly words:
Spelling Workbook
There’s also a printable 204 page spelling workbook to help kids learn these words. It has:
- the grade 1 spelling words
- word shape puzzles
- phonics worksheets
- sentence dictation
- vocabulary
- handwriting
- and more
It makes it really easy to teach your 1st grader spelling.
Free Printable 1st Grade Spelling Words
The free printable pdf of the 32 weekly spelling lists for first grade can be downloaded here:
More Spelling Lists by Grade
Here are the spelling words for future grades:
- grade 2 spelling words
- grade 3 spelling words
- grade 4 spelling words
- grade 5 spelling words
- grade 6 spelling words
The spelling lists for grades 2 – 6 are all theme based. No more boring lists of random words to learn.
Kajanitha
Wednesday 12th of October 2022
I love these!!.it's very helpful.it's really easy to teach 1st graders.
Mercy E. Aggrey
Wednesday 5th of October 2022
Thanks, for this great opportunity. I have been trying to get grade one two and three spelling list including the phonics note. Am so happy to meet you. Can you please sent the notes to my email for these three classes? Phonics and spelling.
Sami Jo
Wednesday 21st of September 2022
Hi I put my name and email in and when I click to open the link there is nothing there. This is our first year homeschooling and these words would be a wonderful help. Thank you!!
Precious
Friday 3rd of June 2022
Good morning Im new here, just wanted to send my gratitude because as a tutor of second grade and also a parent of a grade 1 learner, ive just downloaded this words and i can already see that they will be a great help to me both ways as im sharing this words with school teachers. Thank you and keep it up.
From Precious, Soweto
Gontse
Monday 16th of May 2022
Informative and more practical. I love it.