Letters & phonics
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.
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
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
Literacy Intervention Packet: Letter Sound Correspondence | Differentiated Activities
A 108-page literacy intervention packet of 10 differentiated activities for teaching letter-sound correspondence, designed for small groups, interventions, or centers.
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.
Reading, retelling & listening
Nursery Rhyme: One Two Buckle My Shoe
An early-literacy center resource built around the nursery rhyme 'One Two Buckle My Shoe', used to build phonemic awareness, story structure, retelling skills, vocabulary and cause-and-effect understanding.
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.
Writing & sentence building
Literacy Center Printables
A no/low-prep literacy center packet ('Paint a Sentence') where students paint over a printed sentence with watercolors, draw a picture depicting it, and write their own original sentence about the same topic.
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
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.
Sight words & vocabulary
Write the Room - Five Senses!
A low-prep 'write the room' literacy center packet using the five senses theme to build letter recognition, beginning-sound phonemic awareness, and pencil grip.
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.
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.
Reading, retelling & listening
Nursery Rhyme: Jack and Jill
An early-literacy center resource built around the nursery rhyme 'Jack and Jill', used to build phonemic awareness, story structure, retelling skills, vocabulary and cause-and-effect understanding.
Writing & sentence building
Literacy Center Packet
A no/low-prep literacy center packet ('Paint a Sentence') where students trace a simple decodable sentence, draw a picture depicting it, and write their own original sentence about the same topic.
Letters & phonics
Literacy Intervention Packet: Letter Identification Activities | Differentiated Alphabet Support
A 116-page literacy intervention packet of 11 differentiated activities for teaching uppercase, lowercase, and mixed-case letter identification, designed for small groups, interventions, or centers.
Writing & sentence building
Kindergarten Writing Center - Numbers and Colors Beginners Writing
A kindergarten writing-center resource that combines handwriting practice with number and color vocabulary through sentence tracing.