Addition Story Problems – Year 1

Unit overview and inclusions

• 20-slide editable PowerPoint presentation: Story Problems Using Addition
• two colour classroom displays: Addition Stories and Read, Draw, Add, Check
• My Addition Story Check student reference card
• two-page Addition Story Match game
• Build an Addition Story game and recording mat
• five worksheets: Find the Parts, Draw and Add, Number-Line Stories, Match Story, Picture and Equation, and Write Your Own Addition Story
• answer pages for all five worksheets
• 22-slide editable PowerPoint quiz with 10 question-and-answer pairs
• two-page Story Problems Using Addition assessment
• answer pages for both assessment pages
• Story Problems Using Addition Rubric with five achievement levels
• 23-page printable unit plan PDF
• combined 65-page Preview PDF

Help Year 1 students build a clear, practical approach to addition story problems. This complete unit teaches children to identify the two parts and the total, decide what information matters, recognise addition clue words, choose a useful model, write an addition sentence and check that the total answers the question.

The editable presentation supports explicit whole-class teaching and guided practice. Colour displays and the student reference card keep the strategy visible. Two games make practice hands-on, while five low-ink worksheets provide a purposeful progression into independent work. The quiz, two-page assessment, answer pages and five-level rubric make checking understanding straightforward.

Learning focus

• identify the two addends and the total
• distinguish known information from what needs to be found
• recognise addition clues such as altogether, in all, total, more and joined
• model addition stories with drawings, number lines and ten-frames
• write and solve addition sentences within 20
• check a total and answer in a complete sentence
• create and explain an original addition story

Classroom use

Use the presentation to model each step, display the reference resources during guided practice, rotate the games through maths groups, assign the worksheets for supported or independent work, and use the quiz and assessment to check understanding.

Formats and count

PDF and editable Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx). The core files contain a 23-page unit plan, a 20-slide presentation and a 22-slide quiz: 65 pages/slides in total.

Answer support

Answer pages are included for all five worksheets and both assessment pages. The quiz places each answer immediately after its matching question.

Digital product and licence

This is a digital teaching resource; no physical item is supplied. It may be used by the purchasing teacher with their own classes. Please do not share, resell, upload or redistribute the files.