CKLA-Aligned Grade 1 Skills Unit 3 Worksheets (Lessons 1–19)

95 full-page activities for CKLA-aligned Grade 1 Skills Unit 3, Lessons 1–19: five pages for each lesson, one activity per page. Unit 3 moves first graders into the vowel digraphs, and these pages follow it lesson by lesson: oo (Lesson 1, with tricky oo words in Lesson 7), ou (9), oi (12) and aw (15), plus the tricky words because (Lesson 2), could, should and would (7) and down (10).

Every page is written to its lesson. Student-read words are checked against the sounds taught so far, so a child never meets a spelling that has not been taught yet. The stories are original fables with animal characters, and every story question asks the child to choose or write, and to name the sentence that proves the answer: nothing is filled in ahead of time.

How the pages work: word-work pages show exactly one gray worked example, and place-or-write pages let children put a card in a box or simply write the word. No cutting is ever required, and every write-in box is sized for first-grade handwriting. Page types change from page to page: spelling words, word chains, sorts, word hunts, tricky-word color-by-word, path puzzles and bingo, verbs and now-or-before pages, planning, drafting and editing a fable or a book report, fluency rows and short stories with questions.

Each lesson at a glance:
• Lessons 1–5: oo, the tricky word because, and planning and drafting a fable
• Lessons 6–8: oo words, could, should and would, and a book report
• Lessons 9–11: ou, the tricky word down, spelling and review
• Lessons 12–19: oi, aw, past and present verbs, review and a unit wrap-up

Two editions in one purchase: Color and Printer-Friendly (black-and-white pictures, identical text). The answer key is a separate PDF, so you can hand out the student pages without it. All content is original. It follows the scope of the Core Knowledge Foundation's free first-edition Grade 1 Skills sequence, Unit 3. It is not tied to any other edition of the program, and none of its text is copied.

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What's included
• 95 student activity pages: 19 lessons, 5 pages each (97 pages per PDF with the cover and closing page)
• Color and Printer-Friendly editions (two PDFs, identical text)
• A separate 9-page answer key
• Vowel digraphs oo, ou, oi and aw, plus 5 tricky words
• Place-or-write sorts, tiles and word cards: no cutting required
• Original fables with comprehension questions, word chains, writing pages and fluency rows