Year 1 Following and writing instructions to make a sandwich: reading and writing worksheet

“Designing my sandwich” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 English unit “Following and writing instructions to make a sandwich: reading and writing”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 16 to 17 of the year, 5 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Designing my sandwich

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · English · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can label a sandwich design using nouns, adjectives and captions.

A Look back3 min

1.
A sentence starts with a capital letter. Circle the mark that ends it.
full stopcommaapostrophe
2.
Circle the word that names a feeling.
happytablejump
3.
Put these words in order to make a sentence. Write 1, 2 and 3 in the boxes.
1. down.
2. sat
3. Ben

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ali is designing a sandwich. The design needs a title, a drawing and captions that name the parts.

A plain plate with a sandwich cut in half on a kitchen table

Watch me

Ali draws the sandwich cut in half.

Ali writes the title: My sandwich.

Ali writes captions: white bread, sweet jam.

Now you

1.
Ali's bread is white. Circle the word that describes the bread.
whitebread
2.
Sam's filling is crunchy cucumber. Circle the noun.
crunchycucumber

C Your turn6 min

Look at each word group. Do the job in the row.

A lunch table with bowls of bread, cheese, cucumber and a jar of jam

1.
In 'sweet jam', circle the word that describes the jam.
sweetjam
2.
In 'creamy cheese', circle the noun.
creamycheese
3.
Write each card in the right column.
jamstickycheesecreamy
Nouns Adjectives
4.
Circle the caption that has an adjective in it.
cheesefresh cucumberjam

Say it out loud: Which word names the thing, and which word tells you what it is like?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A kitchen counter with a loaf of bread, a knife and a jar of cheese spread

Kit says: “Creamy is a noun because it is a food.”

1.
Is creamy a noun or an adjective? Circle the right word.
nounadjective

E Think deeper4 min

A picnic table with a basket and a cloth on the grass in a sunny park

1.
Make up your own caption for a sandwich in the picnic basket. Use one describing word. Write it on the lines.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Designing my sandwich · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. full stop

2. happy

3. 1 Ben · 2 sat · 3 down.

B

1. white

2. cucumber

C

1. sweet

2. cheese

3. Nouns: jam, cheese · Adjectives: sticky, creamy

4. fresh cucumber

D

1. adjective your child said noun because creamy sounds like a food. Creamy tells you what the cheese is like, so it is an adjective. Ask: is this word a naming word, or a describing word?

E

1. Look for: A short caption that names a food and uses one describing word, such as crunchy lettuce.

Words to use

Say“Which word names the food, and which word tells us what it is like?”

Instead of“Just tell them the answer is adjective, without asking what the word does.”

After the sheet

Look in the fridge or cupboard together. Say a naming word for each food, then a describing word for it, and write one caption on paper.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

4 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Parts of instructions(with a plan)
Sandwich steps in order(with a plan)
Start of sandwich instructions(with a plan)
Tell me how, in order(with a plan)

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