What’s the secret to finding the right first grade workbook? Kids really love things that are colorful, engaging, and include helpful illustrations. We’ve put together our list of best first grade workbooks that include all of these elements PLUS good teacher reviews!
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Best Math First Grade Workbooks
Spectrum Math Workbook 1st Grade
This 160-page, six-chapter workbook covers fact fmilies, adding, and subtracting through 100. Students will also work on composing 2-D and 3-D shapes, place value, comparing numbers, and taking measurements.
Real review: “This is a good book for first graders starting out to supplement their school curriculum. The illustrations are cute, fun, and well done and support the lessons’ critical thinking components.”
Star Wars Workbook: 1st Grade Math
This workbook aligns with Common Core standards and reinforces key math concepts, including addition and subtraction, counting by ones and skip counting, two-dimensional shapes, and more.
Real review: “The content is good and grade-appropriate, and it even encourages some stretch work that I wouldn’t expect from a first-grader.”
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1st Grade Jumbo Math Success Workbook
You’ll have three books in one with this great workbook that’s jam-packed with 320 pages of kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed exercises.
Real review: “The real skill of this book is its ability to engage the child and allow them to feel empowered and on their own journey of discovery of math.”
Big Book of Math Practice Problems Addition and Subtraction
This workbook contains lots of math worksheets with over 4000 problems that include addition facts, subtraction facts, double-digit and triple-digit addition and subtraction with and without regrouping, adding three double-digit numbers in stacks, and more!
Real review: “Much needed math practice book for teaching adding and subtracting. Double digit and triple digit problems. Solutions in back. Practice makes perfect…..and this book is a good example.”
Math, First Grade: Learn and Explore
This workbook covers topics including adding and subtracting up to 20, symmetry, giving change, patterns, bar graphs, and other areas of math taught in a first grade classroom.
Real review: “The book covers major first grade math topics well, in my opinion. I am happy with this product and would highly recommend it.”
Best Reading First Grade Workbooks
Star Wars Workbook: 1st Grade Reading
Designed to align with national Common Core State Standards, this workbook uses the Force to bring Star Wars to the classroom. Kids will love the “A is for Anakin” approach to phonics!
Real review: “Great product! I ordered this as an additional learning resource for e-learning for my son and I couldn’t be happier with the result.”
180 Days of Reading: Grade 1
These quick diagnostic-based activities come with data-driven assessment tips, a Digital Resource CD with assessment analysis, and electronic versions of the daily practice activities.
Real review: “The resources is well thought out. I love the CD which includes PDF files off the activities.”
Scholastic Success with Reading Comprehension, Grades 1
This standards-based first grade workbook contains targeted, skill-building practice that kids need. Also more than 40 ready-to-reproduce practice pages.
Real review: “This book is filled with really helpful reading practice worksheets. The pages are perforated, making it easy to tear them out and work outside the book.”
Spelling and Writing for Beginners, Grade 1
Each workbook is filled with 64 pages of age-appropriate activities, puzzles, and games. Skills covered include secret codes, word searches, word scrambles, crossword puzzles, and more!
Real review: “This book is wonderful to teach your child how to spell and write sentences, along with other fun things. It was easy at first then it became more challenging.”
My Sight Words Workbook
The activities in this workbook make it fun and accessible for first-grade students to learn the top 101 sight words and increase their reading speed and comprehension.
Real review: “It supplements school learning and introduces reading without pressure.”
Best Handwriting & Writing First Grade Workbooks
Handwriting: Word Practice
This workbook contains word-writing practice and activities and puzzles, combined with digital video tutorials to help kids build vocabulary and handwriting skills.
Real review: “This book is super sturdy…and the lessons are short enough that they don’t get discouraged with too much work. This was a great purchase.”
Handwriting Without Tears: My Printing Book
These lessons emphasize the correct use of lowercase letters in words and sentences while practicing writing on varying styles of lines. The accompanying activity pages combine handwriting instruction with other language arts lessons.
Real review: Great book for struggling writers and readers.
The Print Handwriting Workbook for Kids
This first grade workbook is filled with great exercises to help kids in grades K-2 learn to print with detailed letter guides and illustrated pages.
Real review: “Excellent book for beginners or to simply reinforce handwriting.”
Handwriting Workbook for Kids
Kids will learn how to trace and then copy the letters of the alphabet (upper and lowercase), basic words and full sentences with this workbook.
Real review: “This is a must-have for beginner writers to help them strengthen their penmanship.”
Star Wars Workbook: 1st Grade Writing Skills
Take learning about nouns, verbs, and more to a whole new level with curriculum-based exercises and activities from a galaxy far, far away.
Real review: “Good handwriting practice, well-spaced. Some grammar thrown in too: verbs, nouns, adjectives. Not repetitive work, they mix it up nicely.”
Kumon: Grade 1 Writing
This workbook introduces kids to first grade vocabulary and writing skills in an easy-to-follow and engaging way!
Real review: “It’s great for fine motor practice, writing concepts, and review of reading concepts such as consonant blends like “ch, sh, th”, long and short vowels.”
Best Science & Social Studies First Grade Workbooks
Science, First Grade: Learn and Explore
Perfect for first grade students, this science workbook contains curriculum-aligned exercises on topics including day and night, animal homes, types of soil, and more.
Real review: “My son homeschools (1st grade). He absolutely loves the assignments and hands on experiments in this book!”
180 Days of Science: Grade 1
Encourage students to build their higher-order thinking skills with activities designed to help them analyze and evaluate scientific data, understand scientific methods and practices, and more!
Real review: “The book is very easy to use and well sectioned.”
Human Body Activity Book for Kids
From eyes and ears to skin and bones, there’s a lot to discover about the human body for kids!
Real review: “The illustration style is age appropriate: detailed enough to show concepts like cell structure but simplified in an appealing way. The art is color throughout, which makes it more enjoyable than black and white.”
Geography, First Grade: Learn and Explore
This first grade workbook contains curriculum-aligned exercises on topics including the seven continents, the 50 states, capitals and large cities, mapping a neighborhood, and more.
Real review: “I used this with my home-schooled first-grader who really enjoyed it.”
Best Overall for Summer Workbooks for First Grade
My First Grade Workbook
From word searches and crosswords to color-by-sum and secret code puzzles, this first grade workbook is filled with loads of enjoyable games and activities that help kids learn as they play.
Real review: “This book was easy to read, nicely organized and kept my son very entertained. It was very bright and colorful and very educational.”
First Grade Big Fun Workbook
Each page provides another fun opportunity to build confidence and master skills. Students will develop alphabet memorization, writing, reading, counting, addition, subtraction, science, and more!
Real review: “The activities in these workbooks are super fun and engaging.”
First Grade Big Workbook
From phonics and spelling activities to space, measurement and time, students will have a blast developing skills in English and math. Activities include phonics, reading, writing, length, mass, capacity, and more.
Real review: “Lots of fun activity for first grades!!”
Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 1 & 2
Kids can learn all summer long with this workbook! It’s filled with activities based on reading, writing, addition, subtraction, telling time, earth science, geography, communities, and more.
Real review: “They actually like to practice their skills from last year with these!”
The Big Book of Reading Comprehension Activities, Grade 1
This great first grade workbook contains 120 activities including fun stories, coloring pages, crosswords, and more. Great for building comprehension skills progressing from easy to harder levels.
Real review: “This book exceeded my expectations.”
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