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Fun With CVC Words | Literacy Center Activities
Practice reading and building CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words and short vowel sounds through five literacy center activities.
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Essay Writing Conventions | Interactive Centers for Middle School
Give middle school students hands-on practice with grammar conventions (complete sentences, capitalization, punctuation) through three interactive, hands-on learning centers.
Answers included
Writing & sentence building
Writing Center | 3rd, 4th & 5th Grades KIT | Common Core Aligned | Neon or B+W
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.
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Reading, retelling & listening
Cause and Effect Concentration Game
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.
Answers included
Reading, retelling & listening
Fairy Tales Listening Center With QR Codes (32 books)
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.
Sight words & vocabulary
Warm Fuzzies Adjectives and Nouns Activity
Practice matching adjectives and nouns to form phrases and use them in sentences, for a literacy/grammar center.
Letters & phonics
ACE Words Matching Mats
Provide a literacy center matching activity where students match individual ACE-family words and simple ACE-word sentences to a labeled mat.
Letters & phonics
Themed Phonics Writing Center Activities Preschool Pre-K Kindergarten
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…
Sight words & vocabulary
Sight Words Dominoes Activity
Practice recognizing and matching pre-primer sight words using a dominoes-style tile matching activity for phonics and literacy centers.
Letters & phonics
Letter T Phonics and Writing Centers with Real Photographs
A multi-activity literacy-center set using real photographs to teach beginning-sound recognition, letter writing, and sorting for the letter T.
Letters & phonics
CVC Literacy Centers
A set of print-and-go literacy centers for practicing beginning, middle, and ending phonics sounds, rhyming, and CVC word building.
Letters & phonics
Letter G Phonics and Writing Centers with Real Photographs
A multi-part literacy center for practicing recognition, handwriting, and beginning-sound identification of the letter G using labeled word/picture cards.
Sight words & vocabulary
Toss An Ending Interactive Game
A hands-on literacy center game practicing adding suffixes (-ed, -ing, -s) to base words.
Letters & phonics
Letter P Phonics and Writing Centers with Real Photographs
Beginning-sounds and handwriting literacy-center resource using photographs of P-words for letter recognition, tracing, sound sorting, and matching.
Letters & phonics
Burger and Fries Alphabet Matching
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.
Letters & phonics
AP Word Dice Games - A CVC Phonics Center
Phonics center activity using dice/cube games to practice building, reading, and writing '-ap' word-family (CVC) words.
Sight words & vocabulary
Sight Words Digger and Sand Matching Game
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.
Letters & phonics
AN Word Dice Games - A CVC Phonics Center
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).
Reading, retelling & listening
Nursery Rhyme: This Little Piggy
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.
Letters & phonics
ACE Word Dice Games - A CVCe Phonics Center
Provide dice-based phonics center games for practicing reading, spelling, and writing CVCe (magic-e) 'ace' family words.
Sight words & vocabulary
Burger and Fries Sight Word Matching
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.
Letters & phonics
Letter C Trains Worksheets and Centers
A train-themed multi-center resource for letter C covering beginning-sound sorting, capital/lowercase sorting, letter tracing/writing, and picture sorting.
Seasonal literacy practice
CVC Matching Game - Mitten Themed
A mitten-themed CVC matching game/literacy center for practicing short vowel CVC word reading, with leveled worksheets and answer keys.
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Letters & phonics
Letter E Phonics and Writing Centers with Real Photographs
Multi-activity literacy-center set using real photographs to practice letter E recognition, handwriting, and beginning-sound sorting.