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1st Grade Classroom Supplies and Books Teachers Love
Here is everything you need to set your growing learners up for success this year.
There is so much to look forward to in teaching first grade. From the great books you’ll stock your bookshelves with to the daily 1st grade teacher supplies you’ll use, we’ve collected the classroom essentials that teachers find most useful for a successful year.
Whether you're preparing your classroom for your first year of teaching, you just switched grades, or you're an experienced teacher looking to refresh your classroom, these books and supplies will make the upcoming school year run even smoother.
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When it comes to creating your classroom library, book sets and collections are an important part of captivating students’ attention. When you introduce kids to new characters and worlds, they'll want to keep reaching for the next book in the series — which is where collections come in handy.
With first grade book sets, you’ll save on large-quantity purchases of leveled readers, picture books, and more. It’s a great way to quickly build up your classroom library!
Here are the most popular first grade book sets and collections teachers choose:
If you could have any animal's hair, or ears, whose would you choose? Explore the outrageous and ridiculous illustrations and informative text in this collection of titles which introduces children to animal traits.
Titles include Diary of a Pug: Scaredy-Pug, Flat Stanley, Owl Diaries: Eva's Treetop Festival, and more!
A creative young boy wants a pet for The Amazing Pet Show, so he catches a fly-little knowing that Fly Guy will become a great friend!
Field trips have a whole new meaning since the indomitable Ms. Frizzle entered the world! Her students get a "bird's eye" view of the inside of bodies, hurricanes, and waterworks-things and places they couldn't dream of are revealed from the inside out in these stories that are jammed full of science and fun.
Fiction is a fantastic way to engage your students’ imagination. This genre encourages students to think outside the box, get creative, and explore new worlds through books.
It’s also a great way to engage students in read-alouds. These books will add levity, creativity, and wonder to your classroom library.
Here are the most popular first grade fiction books teachers choose:
Is it time yet? This STEM-focused romp about pupation will tickle little ones who know how hard it is to wait.
When a little girl is told by her brother that unicorns don't exist, she doesn't believe it for a second. She sets off to prove her brother wrong. From the farm to the park to the beach, she looks for unicorns everywhere. Could her brother be right? Or is a unicorn hiding right around the corner?
A silly read-aloud story with funny rhymes and hilarious illustrations.
This inclusive picture book rejoices in the specialness of each person's beauty and ability.
An expertly crafted new series featuring twists on beloved fairy tales destined to be instant classics!
Carmen Agra Deedy, New York Times bestselling author and one of Scholastic"s most talented and cherished storytellers, retells a hilarious folktale wickedly funny and inspiring picture book that proves the smallest of creatures can sometimes possess the most surprising strength!
The laughter is nonstop as everyone's favorite greedy and selfish pug is sent to obedience school in this picture book from #1 New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Aaron Blabey.
In a story brimming with love and light, Jon J Muth shows how we can all heal the world a little bit at a time -- just the right message for now -- and always!
Sunny's dad enters Super World as none other than King Viking himself! In order to get off a faraway island, King Viking has to become the HERO and help Captain Trevor fix his boat. But since Dad is not very good at playing the game, King Viking struggles to find all the supplies. Will King Viking be able to save the day and defeat the island monster? And where does Super Rabbit Boy show up in this zany adventure?
The third hilarious book in the series features a has-bean trying desperately to fit in, until the cool beans show him that it's cooler to be kind.
Nonfiction books teach kids about the world around them. Whether your students are fascinated by animals or learning about climate change, nonfiction books will supplement your curriculum for science, math, history, and more.
Here are the most popular first grade nonfiction books teachers choose:
WHAT IF YOU HAD ANIMAL HAIR? is a follow-up to the adorable WHAT IF YOU HAD ANIMAL TEETH? Each spread will feature a photographic image of the animal and its hair on the left and an illustration of a child with that animal's hair on the right. As in ANIMAL TEETH, the illustrations will be humorous and will accompany informative text.
It's time for a field trip! Fly Guy and Buzz are going to a weather station to learn all about weather. With straightforward text, humorous asides, and kid-friendly full-bleed photographs throughout, young readers will love learning about tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, and much more!
Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to an scientific trailblazer. The second book in an exciting new nonfiction series, You Are a Star, Jane Goodall focuses on Jane's lifelong mission to understand the chimpanzees and protect the planet.
An inspiring picture book authored by creator of the More Than Peach Project which aims to offer a wide array of skin-toned crayon colors with every kid in mind.
Poetic text and awe-inspiring illustrations guide readers on a journey explaining the causes of climate change and how people can make the world better.
Join the epic adventure! Follow along as monarch butterflies make their amazing journey from Canada to Mexico in this rhyming bilingual picture book.
From fun facts about fairy circles to the delicious secret behind pizza, this book is the perfect read for young scientists. It even contains a Q & A section with a real-life mycologist!
No need for tedious workbooks in your classroom! When sharpening your students’ skills during quiet time or independent learning time (especially if you have fast finishers in the class), engaging workbooks are essential first grade classroom supplies.
Practicing reading comprehension, writing skills, math, and science will become second nature as your students engage with fun characters, games, puzzles, and more in their favorite activity books.
Here are the most popular first grade workbooks teachers choose:
This book will help increase familiarity through games and activities designed to boost students' recognition of the top 100 sight words!
More than 40 ready-to-use, skill-building practice pages with easy-to-follow directions and fun, motivating exercises!
High-interest topics and engaging exercises designed to stimulate and encourage children as they develop the necessary skills to become independent writers. Includes strategies with grade-appropriate skills that can be used in daily writing assignments such as journals, stories, and letters!
Practicing grammar skills has never been so easy! Perfect for classroom or at-home use, this exciting ready-to-use resource provides invaluable reinforcement and practice with key grammar topics.
Perfect for classroom or at-home use, this exciting practice book provides invaluable reinforcement and practice with key addition and subtraction skills.
As children progress through the book, they’ll familiarize themselves with sight words and strengthen their spelling skills-paving the way for reading success!
Make early math concepts fun with this colorful workbook.
Each workbook reinforces the 100 words that children need to know - and it helps them master comprehension, spelling, writing, and usage of each word.
This large collection of fun and engaging practice pages is designed to help students master essential skills in reading, writing, vocabulary, math, and more. With more than 300 skill-building practice pages, students are well on their way to succeed in school! Includes ready-to-use flash cards for extra skills practice.
300 skill-building pages that give kids practice with sight words, handwriting, phonics, addition, subtraction and everything they'll need to succeed as students.
Developing reading comprehension and fluency requires a set of complex skills that help readers decode and understand words in a text. Give your first grade students the support they need to flourish as lifelong readers with instructional solutions based on the science of reading.
Here are the most popular Science of Reading resources for first grade teachers choose:
Give children the tools they need to soar as readers with this irresistible set of highly decodable stories! Inside the bright box, you’ll find 12 funny books that provide targeted practice with simple, short-vowel words plus a tip-filled parent guide, mini-workbook, and motivating stickers.
Set children on the road to literacy success with these playful, highly decodable stories! Inside this bright box, you’ll find 12 funny books that provide targeted practice with must-know blends and digraphs plus a tip-filled parent guide, mini-workbook, and motivating stickers.
Lay the foundation for literacy success with this super-engaging set of highly decodable stories! Inside the bright box, you’ll find 12 funny books that provide targeted practice with simple, long-vowel words plus a tip-filled parent guide, mini-workbook, and motivating stickers.
The fun, easy-to-read stories in this collection give your child practice with must-know phonics skills, such as short vowels, long vowels, consonant blends, digraphs, and more.
Each box contains laminated cards that target and teach must-know concepts including short vowels, long vowels, blends, digraphs, and more.
Support reading fluency with these large full-color cards! Each phoneme card features a large photo of a child demonstrating the correct position of the tongue, teeth, and mouth when making one of the 44 sounds in the English language.
Finding the right first grade classroom materials to supplement your curriculum is key to helping your students fully understand the subject matter.
Whether it’s learning the days of the week, navigating maps, or understanding how to tell time, these materials will quickly help your students understand new concepts taught in first grade.
Here are the most popular first grade supporting materials teachers choose:
Full-color photo cards include 10 subject cards, 5 blank cards, and 1 title card. Also includes a 2-page activity guide.
For use with your Scholastic Daily Schedule Pocket Chart.
Teach important sight words with 25 short and playful poems! Each poem targets a key Dolch sight word and includes multiple opportunities for children to practice reading that word-helping them boost word recognition, automaticity, and fluency.
Reproducible pages on the back of each chart! Plastic-coated for color-fastness and durability!
Help children learn numbers 0-20 with this colorful bulletin board set. Each number is presented as a numeral, in word form, and on a 10 frame.
Highlight important days and celebrations with this must-have classroom calendar. The simple icons make the calendar easy-to-read for even the littlest learners and the serene color palette transforms your space into an oasis of learning.
Develop calendar skills with this dynamic chart featuring 25 adorable songs set to familiar tunes!
Having smart first grade teacher supplies for the year ahead can make all the difference — something experienced teachers know well! During the school year, it’s important to make sure your students (and you!) are equipped with everything they’ll need to succeed, from your own teacher planner to substitute teacher folders and stickers just for fun.
Here are the most popular 1st grade classroom supplies teachers choose:
Manage your class schedule with this modern planner interspersed with pages featuring inspirational sayings.
Rediscover the joy of teaching with this planner that doubles as a gratitude journal. This beautiful spiral-bound organizer is thoughtfully designed with everything a busy teacher needs, plus writing prompts and inspirational quotes to help her remember and appreciate the little moments that made her fall in love with teaching.
Essential for teachers and substitutes alike, this bright, durable two-pocket folder helps organize sub plans and offers activities for substitutes to use in a pinch. Features a 16-page booklet with reproducible pages, forms, tips, and reports. Adaptable to a variety of grade levels.
This durable two-pocket folder helps students keep their schoolwork neat and organized.
These colorful, fun stickers give practical study information to reinforce basic language and math skills.
Something as simple as storage means more for keeping your books in excellent condition than you might think, as bins protect delicate pages from dust, accidental tears, and more while not in use. Your classroom library needs the proper methods of storage to maintain books for many years to come. Experienced teachers typically stock up on library bins to help keep books in tip-top shape.
Here are the most popular first grade storage supplies teachers choose:
Convenient and sturdy plastic bins for storing books and teaching materials help keep your classroom resources neat and organized!
Taking the time to sharpen your own skills will help advance your curriculum and create new lesson plans throughout the year. Tools for professional development will keep you in the loop on the latest teaching methods and schools of thought in education.
Here are the most popular professional development books teachers choose for first grade:
Professional Book
3-Minute Reading Assessments: Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension: Grades 1-4
Leveled passages with ready-to-use assessment pages help teachers quickly screen students for reading problems, such as low word recognition, poor fluency rate, and inadequate comprehension.
Professional Book
Week-by-Week Homework for Building Reading Comprehension & Fluency: Grade 1
Bestselling author Mary Rose has selected short readings perfect for first graders. Kids take these home with the companion comprehension activity and practice reading with the support of a grown-up.
Build classroom community and honor the identities of everyone in your class with thoughtfully chosen multicultural mentors texts, such as Alma and How She Got Her Name, Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao, In My Mosque, and more.
Literacy champions Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp provide teachers with the advice they need to transform the classroom library into a true instructional partner.
This simple, research-proven early intervention program builds reading proficiency, word recognition, and overall comprehension.
Dr. Gholdy Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework-one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education.
Award-winning children's author and acclaimed educator Lester L. Laminack provides guidelines, lessons, and resources for making every read-aloud experience intentional and instructional to engage students in deep thinking about fiction and nonfiction books.
Games and manipulatives are an important part of 1st grade classroom essentials, and a fun way for students to continue practicing their knowledge from their earlier lessons. While your students play and solve puzzles, they’ll have fun learning the ins and outs of word- and sentence-building and structure, counting, and more.
Here are the most popular first grade classroom games and manipulatives teachers choose:
Give children a head-start in math with these colorful, double-sided flash cards that teach essential skills. Each set includes activity cards with helpful tips and suggestions for making learning fun.
Give children a head-start in math with these colorful, double-sided flash cards that teach essential skills. Each set includes activity cards with helpful tips and suggestions for making learning fun.
Here's a new fun way to lead children on the road to literacy! Colorful mats and word tiles make learning and practicing telling time and counting money fun.
The 20 self-checking, 5-piece puzzles in the set are designed to help children recognize and generate rhyming words.
Start building a foundation for academic success with the Learning Mats: Sight Words kit.
Stock up your classroom library with these budget-friendly books. Early elementary schoolers are growing readers so it is important to expose your students to a variety of books. From funny rhyming tales to empowering stories — there is something for everyone!
Many claim to have caught a mermaid, but can YOU?
How do you catch a mermaid?
You must be very clever.
With mirrors, crowns, and pearls galore,
this quest can't last forever!
On the first day of first grade, there will be lots of fun! This is the perfect book to share with a kindergartner getting ready for the step up to "big kid" school!
Parr's bestselling books have reminded kids to embrace differences, to be thankful, to love one another, and to be themselves. This follow-up to It's Okay to Be Different embraces life's happy accidents, the mistakes, and mess-ups that can lead to self discovery.
With a simple, witty story and free-spirited illustrations, Peter H. Reynolds entices even the stubbornly uncreative among us to make a mark, and to follow where it takes us.
On the first day of school, a boy falls asleep and dreams that he is assigned to Mrs. Green's class. In his nightmare, Mrs. Green is a monster with a tail and smoke coming out of her nostrils. He is so happy when he awakes to see the real Mrs. Green that he gives her a hug.
First grade is a time when many kids learn important life skills like manners and emotion regulation. These social-emotional books have eye-catching illustrations and relatable characters that will help your students stay engaged. Teach your students valuable lessons with these inspiring stories!
Sometimes I Kaploom masterfully explores how hard it can be for children when they're nervous or scared and have to transition to new places and faces when they just don't feel quite ready. In another poignant, honest, and insightful story, readers learn along with Katie that bravery and fear are not mutually exclusive.
This rhyming guide to social skills is a good introduction for young children to the power of kindness. Includes helpful times and activities.
Told through creative language play, and with depth and whimsy, this picture book reminds readers of their own agency and the power they have to direct their own path. Marc Colagiovanni's lyrical text and Peter H. Reynolds's stunning art create an enduring message of strength and perseverance that is both universal and personal, and one that readers will be drawn to over and over again.
Being kind can be a little difficult, even for dinosaurs. But with a little practice and some heartfelt humor, our prehistoric pals can develop empathy and compassion for others. Join in the hilarity as the bestselling duo Jane Yolen and Mark Teague teach young readers and dinosaurs that being kind is important and cool!
With themes of self-acceptance, identity, and home, this powerful, lyrical picture book will resonate with readers young and old, from all backgrounds and of all colors-especially anyone who ever felt that they don't belong.
When Esperanza finds a heart-shaped rock, she is reminded to be kind and forgiving. But when her work in the school play is flawed, will she remember to be kind to herself?
The complexity of mixed feelings are addressed in this brightly colored, empathetic picture book with a section for caregivers.
