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English: 1st Grade
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First Grade English Tutoring

Starting first grade is a big step. It’s when children begin building foundational skills in reading, writing, and spelling. Our online English tutoring for 1st graders provides the structure and support your child needs to develop strong literacy skills. Each lesson is designed to build confidence and make learning enjoyable.

Why 1st-Grade English Can Feel Challenging

In first grade, students move from recognising letters to reading full sentences, writing short stories, and understanding grammar rules. They’re learning:

  • Short and long vowel sounds
  • Sight words
  • Sentence punctuation
  • Spelling patterns
  • How to express ideas through writing

It’s a lot to take in, especially while they’re still building confidence in how English works. Without the right support, it’s easy for them to fall behind - sometimes without parents even realising it.

That’s why early intervention matters. Read More

How APLUS America Builds Early-Literacy Confidence

  • Getting Started with English: We begin by understanding your child’s current reading and writing abilities. Our tutors review their skills to identify where they’re confident and where they need more support. From there, we create a personalized Weekly Lesson Plan that targets the right areas, whether it’s phonics, grammar, comprehension, or essay writing, to help them grow with clarity and confidence.
  • Personalized Weekly Lesson Plan: Combines revision, consolidation, and extension tasks to support consistent progress at just the right level. Every Monday, your child receives an updated plan tailored to their needs, so they’re always working on what matters most.
  • Interactive Lessons and Games: Includes over 65 games and 1,500 step-by-step activities to keep your child motivated and confident. From building vocabulary to mastering sentence structure, each task is designed to be fun, clear, and easy to follow.
  • Tutor Support: Our tutors go beyond just answering questions. They review your child’s progress each week, provide regular feedback, and are available to chat with parents to adjust the workload or approach as needed. When it comes to writing, your child can submit structured tasks for tutor review and receive detailed feedback to improve grammar, clarity, and structure.
  • Rewards That Motivate: Points earned through lessons and activities can be exchanged for real rewards like gift cards, giving your child an extra boost to stay engaged and keep making progress.

What We Cover in Our 1st Grade English Tutoring Program

  • Recognising and using short and long vowel sounds
  • Mastering sight words to improve reading fluency
  • Understanding basic sentence structure and punctuation
  • Spelling common one-syllable words
  • Writing simple narratives with clear beginnings, middles, and endings
  • Building listening and speaking skills to support reading comprehension

These are the essential building blocks for future skills like paragraph writing, grammar usage, and independent reading.

Why Parents Trust Our 1st Grade English Tutors

  • Weekly progress reports show exactly how your child is improving in reading, writing, and spelling, so you’re never in the dark about their progress.
  • Our rewards system lets children earn points as they complete lessons, which can be exchanged for real rewards like gift cards. It’s a fun way to keep them engaged and excited to learn.
  • Every lesson is aligned with the U.S. Common Core standards, helping your child build strong early literacy skills that reinforce what they’re learning in school.
  • Our platform works from anywhere, at any time - so it fits into your family’s routine

Ready to Help Your Child Love Reading and Writing?

Support your child’s confidence and build strong foundations with our online 1st grade English tutoring. With a personalized learning plan, your child will always know what to work on next, and you’ll always know how they’re progressing.

Need support with math too? Visit our 1st grade Math tutoring page to help your child grow in confidence with both English and math skills. Read Less

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Our Programs Include:

35,000+
questions
200+
tests
1,500+
lessons
65+
games
English Wiz
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Explore 1st Grade English Curriculum

GRADE 1

Common Core Standards Curriculum

  1. Unit: English Wiz
  • Step 1: Listen and Read
  • Step 2: Spelling and Writing
  • Games to Play
  • ...and more
🎮 2 Games 📝 20 Tests 📘 114 Lessons
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Step 1
Student Assessment

 Every child learns at a different pace and has different tutoring needs. We assess your child to identify what your child does and does not know, including the knowledge gaps holding your child back.

Step 2
Personalized Learning

 Every week we create a new online lesson plan especially for your child. Our lesson plans target the knowledge gaps, so that they are ready to forge ahead. No guessing what to do next, simply log in and do the lessons set especially for you.

Step 3
Tutor Support

 Our interactive lesson plans are supported by our tutor team. Just pick up the phone and speak to one of tutors to discuss your child’s progress. Kids can even speak to our tutors for extra help with any question on the program.

Step 4
Rewards & Motivation

 Earn points as you learn. Cash in points for real rewards such as iTunes vouchers. It is amazing how effective a little reward and recognition can be.

Enter your details to receive 2 weeks free English tutoring

+By entering your details, you give APLUS America permission to contact you to discuss its tutoring via phone, SMS and/or email and record such communication for training and compliance purposes. You understand that the 2 weeks free tutoring is only available to children that have not previously received any free tutoring from APLUS America.

"The programs can give parents a great sense of direction and a sense of structured involvement which will give them great satisfaction. Most children will learn much better. It’s interactive, individualized, special, and it works."
DR JANET HALL, PSYCHOLOGIST
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