Printable checklist

Year 1 English — what your child learns

These are the 38 English topics Year 1 covers on TheLearnDen, following the National Curriculum for England. Print the list, stick it on the fridge, and tick topics off as they come up. Each topic name matches its page on this site, where you will find checked videos, lessons, worksheets and practice. Many are free; any account or subscription requirement is shown before you open a resource.

• Use Previous Knowledge Or Background Information
• Listen To And Discuss Texts
• Grapheme Awareness
• Phonological Awareness
• Read Common Exception Words
• Read Words With Contractions And Apostrophes
• Check Own Work For Sense
• Spell Common Exception Words
• Spell The Days Of The Week
• Punctuate Sentences
• Use Capital Letters
• Use Grammatical Terminology
• Read Aloud
• Leave Spaces Between Words
• Join Words And Use Joining Clauses
• Write Simple Dictated Sentences
• Sequence Sentences
• Use Ing Ed Er And Est
• Read Words Of More Than One Syllable
• Discuss Word Meanings
• Discuss Book Titles And Events
• Make Inferences
• Spell Words Containing Phonemes
• Name The Letters Of The Alphabet
• Distinguish Different Spellings Of Same Sound
• Add –S Or –Es
• Use The Prefix Un
• Make Inferences
• Make Predictions
• Write Sentences
• Back To School
• End Of Term 2
• Core Subjects
• End Of Term 3
• End Of Year
• End Of Term 1
• Phonics Screening Test
• End Of Topic

Topic order follows the site's Year 1 English listing. Schools teach topics in their own order, so treat this as a coverage map, not a timetable.