Year 1 maths and phonics

187 skills in 43 topics from the NSW syllabus, each practised until it sticks — with pictures, and a button that reads each question aloud for a child still learning to read.

Three Year 1 questions, answered

Maths · Near Doubles

6 + 5 = ?

  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 15
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11

The two numbers are next to each other. Double the smaller one, then add one more.

Maths · What Comes Next?

What comes next? 🍌 🍒 🍌 🍒 …

  • 🍌
  • 🍊
  • 🍐
  • 🍒
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🍌

Say the pattern out loud and point to each picture. Find the part that repeats.

English · sh, ch and th

👍 Which word is spelt correctly?

  • tumb
  • cumb
  • thumb
  • chumb
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thumb

Say the word slowly. Is the sound sh, ch or th?

Everything in Year 1

43 topics · 187 skills · 3,377 questions

Maths · 25 topics

Number & place value

  • Counting to 20 — How Many at a Glance, Counting Things to 20, Ten Frames, One More and One Less, Numbers as Words
  • Counting On and Back to 120 — Before, After and Between, Counting On, Counting Back, The Hundred Chart, Number Lines
  • Tens and Ones — Making Tens, Teen Numbers, Tens and Ones with Sticks, The Nearest Ten, About How Many?
  • Comparing and Ordering — Who Has More?, The Biggest Number, Putting Numbers in Order, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Odd and Even

Adding & subtracting

  • Number Bonds to 10 — Parts of a Number, Making Ten, Ways to Make a Number, Doubles, Near Doubles, More Than, Less Than
  • Adding to 20 — Adding with Pictures, Counting On, Adding to 10, Make Ten First, Adding Three Numbers, Adding Ones to a Bigger Number
  • Taking Away to 20 — Taking Away with Pictures, Counting Back to Take Away, How Many More?, Take-Away Facts, Adding and Taking Away Go Together, Taking Ones from a Bigger Number
  • Equals and Story Problems — Turnaround Sums, The Missing Number, Equals Means the Same, Add or Take Away?, Adding Stories, Taking-Away Stories

Multiplying & dividing

  • Skip Counting and Equal Groups — Counting by 2s, Counting by 5s, Counting by 10s, Counting by 3s, Equal Groups, Gaps in a Skip Count
  • Sharing and Grouping — Sharing Equally, How Many Groups?, Left Over, Half of a Group

Fractions & decimals

  • Halves and Quarters — Equal Parts, One Half and One Quarter, Half a Length, A Quarter of a Length

Patterns & algebra

  • Repeating Patterns — What Comes Next?, Patterns of Three Things, The Missing Piece, Growing Patterns

Measurement

  • Length — Longer and Shorter, Tallest and Shortest, Measuring with Blocks, Bigger Units, Fewer of Them, Ordering Lengths
  • Heavier and Lighter — Heavier and Lighter, Using Two Balances, Weighing with Cubes, Ordering by Mass
  • Capacity and Volume — Which Holds More?, Filling with Cups, Counting Cubes, Which Uses More Cubes?
  • Area — Which Covers More?, Counting Squares, Bigger Tiles, Fewer of Them, Comparing Areas
  • O'clock and Half Past — O'clock, Half Past, Which Clock?, Digital Times, An Hour Later
  • Days, Months and the Calendar — Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Weeks, Months and Years, Reading a Calendar
  • Coins — Sorting Coins, Size Is Not Value, Counting Coins of One Kind, Who Has More Money?

Shape & space

  • 2D Shapes — Naming Shapes, Counting Sides and Corners, Turned Shapes, Shape Riddles, Same Name, Different Look
  • Slides, Flips and Symmetry — Slides and Flips, In a Mirror, Lines of Symmetry
  • 3D Objects — Naming Solids, Solids All Around Us, Does It Roll?, Flat Surfaces
  • Position and Directions — Left and Right, Above, Below and Between, Paths on a Grid, Quarter Turns

Data & chance

  • Picture Graphs and Tallies — Reading a Picture Graph, Most and Fewest, How Many More?, Tally Marks
  • Will It Happen? — Will, Might or Will Not, Spinners

English · 16 topics

Reading

  • Reading Short Stories — Who, What and Where, What Happened First?, Reading Facts, Matching a Sentence to a Picture

Spelling & word study

  • Letter Sounds — The First Sound, The Last Sound, The Middle Sound, Reading Short Words
  • sh, ch, th, ck and Double Letters — sh, ch and th, ck at the End, ff, ll, ss and zz, ng and nk, wh, qu and x
  • Blends — Blends at the Start, Blends at the End, Three-Letter Blends
  • Build the Word — Three-Letter Words, Four-Letter Words, Building with Sounds, Finish the Word, Look, Hide and Write
  • Long a and Long e — Magic e: a_e, ai or ay, ee or ea, y Says ee
  • Long i, o and u — i_e, igh and y, o_e, oa and ow, oo or ew, u_e or ue
  • ar, or, er, ir, ur and air — ar and or, er, ir and ur, air, are and ear, ear and eer
  • oi and oy, ou and ow, aw and au — oi or oy, ou or ow, aw or au
  • tch, dge, ge and kn — tch or ch, dge or ge, Soft g, Silent k and w
  • Adding -s, -es, -ed and -ing — s or es, y to ies, Adding ed and ing, Double, Then Add, Drop the e
  • Compound Words, -er, -est and un- — Compound Words, Someone Who Does It, er and est, un and re, Adding y
  • Tricky Words — Spelling Tricky Words, Who, What, Where, When

Vocabulary & word play

  • Opposites, Same Meanings and Groups — Opposites, Words That Mean the Same, Words in Groups, One Word, Two Meanings, Words That Sound the Same

Grammar & punctuation

  • Capital Letters, Full Stops and Question Marks — Starting and Ending a Sentence, Capital Letters for Names, Full Stop or Question Mark?, Words in Order, A Whole Sentence
  • Naming, Doing and Describing Words — Naming Words, Doing Words, Describing Words, a or an, Yesterday Words

Thinking skills · 2 topics

Logic & reasoning

  • Clues and Ordering — Who Is Tallest?, Who Is It?, Who Is Where in the Line?

Patterns & puzzles

  • Odd One Out and Same and Different — Which Picture Does Not Belong?, Which Word Does Not Belong?, Spot the Two That Match

Every topic, year by year