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Practice reading and building CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words and short vowel sounds through five literacy center activities.
Includes: CVC word/picture Match: cut-apart cards for matching, memory game, or read/write-the-room use · CVC Sentence writing activities: rebus sentence cards with corresponding completed-sentence versions shown, for reading, matching, and independent…
Give middle school students hands-on practice with grammar conventions (complete sentences, capitalization, punctuation) through three interactive, hands-on learning centers.
Includes: teacher directions for preparing/laminating hands-on center pieces · Center 1: Complete Sentences - subject/predicate matching cards, definition poster, interactive notebook foldable, answer key · Center 2: Capitalization Practice - common/proper…
A multi-file writing center starter kit for grades 3-5 covering Opinion, Informative, and Narrative writing aligned to Common Core writing standards, meant to supplement (not replace) a writing curriculum.
Includes: 60 leveled task cards (opinion, informative, narrative) · sentence-starter cards for each writing type · posters per writing type
A memory-matching (concentration) card game that helps students practice identifying cause-and-effect pairs, usable as a whole-class game or independent reading-center activity.
Includes: assembly/play directions · cause definition card · effect definition card
A printable QR-code listening center offering links to 32 fairy tale and fractured fairy tale read-aloud videos on YouTube, for use as an independent listening/reading station.
Includes: cover/title collage page listing all 32 book titles · fairy tale theme/vocabulary word web page (e.g. 'Once Upon a Time', 'Happily Ever After', 'Royalty', 'Good vs. Evil') · directions page for printing, laminating, and using QR codes with a…
Practice matching adjectives and nouns to form phrases and use them in sentences, for a literacy/grammar center.
Includes: noun cards (e.g., ball, boat, dog, tree, window, basket, mouse) · adjective cards (e.g., big, red, funny, five, warm, mighty, silly) · recording sheets for drawing a picture and writing a sentence using the chosen phrase
Provide a literacy center matching activity where students match individual ACE-family words and simple ACE-word sentences to a labeled mat.
Includes: ACE Family Word Mat with 6 matching word cards to cut out (face, lace, mace, race, place, space, trace, ace) · ACE Family Sentence Mat with 6 matching sentence cards to cut out
Looking for a Science of Reading aligned literacy resource that combines phonics, writing, decoding, and hands-on learning? This Ultimate Decodable Monthly Writing Center Activities pack is designed to help preschool, Pre-K, kindergarten, and first-grade students develop foundational reading skills through engaging center-based…
Practice recognizing and matching pre-primer sight words using a dominoes-style tile matching activity for phonics and literacy centers.
Includes: 3 sets of 20 domino word-matching tiles (pre-primer sight words), printed across the activity pages · terms-of-use and credit pages (excluded from content description)
A multi-activity literacy-center set using real photographs to teach beginning-sound recognition, letter writing, and sorting for the letter T.
Includes: full-page alphabet posters/cards, pages 3-22, with real-photo words: table, tag, tank, tap, tape, tea set, telescope, tent, tick, tie, tiger, toast, tomato… · tracing cards, pages 23-24
A set of print-and-go literacy centers for practicing beginning, middle, and ending phonics sounds, rhyming, and CVC word building.
Includes: Beginning Sound Match cards · Ending Sound Match cards · Middle Sound Match cards
A multi-part literacy center for practicing recognition, handwriting, and beginning-sound identification of the letter G using labeled word/picture cards.
Includes: print instructions page (page 2) · 16 full-page alphabet posters/cards, one per word: game, garbage, gorilla, gate, gauge, gears, gecko, gift, girl, goat, gold, goldfish, goose, gopher, guitar… · tracing cards for writing center (pages 19-20)
A hands-on literacy center game practicing adding suffixes (-ed, -ing, -s) to base words.
Includes: 1 recording sheet (5 items: write words tossed, form combined word, and write a sentence)
Beginning-sounds and handwriting literacy-center resource using photographs of P-words for letter recognition, tracing, sound sorting, and matching.
Includes: 24 full-page alphabet posters/cards with real-photograph vocabulary: pail, paddle, paint, palm, pan, peach, peanut, pear, peas, pelican, pencil, penguin… · 2 tracing cards ('Laminate these cards and place in a writing center')
A hands-on lowercase alphabet letter-recognition matching activity using burger and fries themed counters, for phonics/literacy centers, aligned to CCSS L.K.1a and RF.K.1d.
Includes: 1 page of plate mat · 6 pages of burger/fries counters (lowercase letters a-z) · 2 pages of calling card circles
Phonics center activity using dice/cube games to practice building, reading, and writing '-ap' word-family (CVC) words.
Includes: cube/dice templates (onset-letter cubes and consonant cubes) · multiple dice recording sheets · picture-based recording sheet
Practice recognizing and matching 100 high-frequency ('pre-primer' through common Dolch/Fry-style) sight words using a construction-themed digger/sand matching activity for a literacy center.
Includes: 100 sight words, each printed on a matching pair of template pages (digger/sand), for a literacy-center matching game · terms-of-use and credit pages (excluded from content description)
A set of dice-based phonics center games for practicing reading, writing, and spelling CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words in the 'an' word family (e.g., can, fan, man, pan, ran, tan, van).
Includes: Two cube (die) templates: one printed with the 'an' rime on all faces, one with initial consonants c/f/r/m/p/t/v · Multiple 'Dice Recording Sheet' game mats (color, trace, cover/graph formats) covering word sets including can/fan/man/tan/pan/ran…
An early-literacy center resource built around the nursery rhyme 'This Little Piggy', used to build phonemic awareness, story structure, retelling skills, vocabulary and cause-and-effect understanding.
Includes: Nursery Rhyme Book (sequencing/coloring take-home book) · Magnet Board Characters (retelling center pieces) · One Page Rhyme Chart (poster for whole-group use)
Provide dice-based phonics center games for practicing reading, spelling, and writing CVCe (magic-e) 'ace' family words.
Includes: 2 sets of foldable dice/cube templates · 7 different recording mats (color/cover/trace/write variants)
A hands-on pre-primer sight-word recognition matching activity using burger and fries themed counters, for phonics/literacy centers, aligned to CCSS RF.K.3 and RF.K.3c.
Includes: 1 page of plate mat · 4 pages of sight-word calling card circles · 1 page of instruction sheet with objective, required resources, preparation, and how-to-play steps, and stated Common Core alignment (CCSS RF.K.3, RF.K.3c)
A train-themed multi-center resource for letter C covering beginning-sound sorting, capital/lowercase sorting, letter tracing/writing, and picture sorting.
Includes: beginning-sound-sort activity (train engine + cargo cards) · letter-recognition-sort activity (capital/lowercase train cars) · 4 train mat pages
A mitten-themed CVC matching game/literacy center for practicing short vowel CVC word reading, with leveled worksheets and answer keys.
Includes: color matching set of CVC mitten cards per vowel · blackline (print-friendly) matching set of CVC mitten cards per vowel · recording sheets per vowel
Multi-activity literacy-center set using real photographs to practice letter E recognition, handwriting, and beginning-sound sorting.
Includes: instructions page for printing (poster / 2-up / 4-up) · 14 full-page alphabet posters/cards with real-photo word pairs (eagle, ear, earrings, easel, eclipse, eel, egg, eggplant, elephant, eleven, elf, empty… · 2 pages of laminate-ready tracing cards