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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Practice reading and building CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words and short vowel sounds through five literacy center activities.
Give middle school students hands-on practice with grammar conventions (complete sentences, capitalization, punctuation) through three interactive, hands-on learning centers.
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.
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.
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.
A 108-page literacy intervention packet of 10 differentiated activities for teaching letter-sound correspondence, designed for small groups, interventions, or centers.
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.
Practice letter Y recognition and the beginning /y/ sound through train-themed sorting, tracing, and matching centers.
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.
A pre-K/kindergarten literacy center and worksheet set using a train theme to teach recognition of the letter P (uppercase and lowercase) and its beginning sound.
These are Three Little Pigs Alphabet Match Cards. You will print, laminate and cut the cards.
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.
A multi-part literacy center resource for letter recognition, beginning sounds, and handwriting practice for the letter I.
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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.
A set of print-and-go literacy centers for practicing beginning, middle, and ending phonics sounds, rhyming, and CVC word building.
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.
Provide a spinning-wheel paper craft for each letter of the alphabet: students color and cut out a two-layer wheel and attach it with a brad so that spinning it reveals different pictures/words that begin with the target letter.
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.
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.
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.
A mitten-themed CVC matching game/literacy center for practicing short vowel CVC word reading, with leveled worksheets and answer keys.
Quick letter-A recognition and writing/coloring activity, usable as a whole/small group or independent art/letter-center activity.
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.