Phonics & word families
AB Word Family Sentence Matching
A literacy-center activity where students read decodable sentences containing -ab word family words and match each sentence to its corresponding picture card.
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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.
Phonics & word families
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
Build A Caterpillar Sight Word - Primer (Dolch)
A hands-on center activity where students build Dolch Primer-level sight words using printable caterpillar head and body pieces.
Phonics & word families
Pre-Primer Dolch Words Activity Packet
Three hands-on literacy-center activities for practicing the 40 Pre-Primer Dolch sight words: a magnetic 'sight word fishing' game confirmed in detail, plus a spatula-flip activity and a flyswatter-swat activity described in the catalog.
Alphabet
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.
Phonics & word families
AG Word Family Sentence Matching
A sentence-and-picture matching literacy center activity giving students practice reading decodable sentences containing AG-family CVC words.
Sight words
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.
Literacy center collections
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
Build A Caterpillar Sight Word - (Dolch)
A hands-on center activity where students build Dolch third-grade sight words using printable caterpillar head and body pieces (product is titled 'Dolch' generically but the file itself is the Third Grade set).
Phonics & word families
CVC Literacy Centers
A set of print-and-go literacy centers for practicing beginning, middle, and ending phonics sounds, rhyming, and CVC word building.
Alphabet
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.
Phonics & word families
AN Word Family Sentence Matching
A sentence-and-picture matching literacy center using decodable sentences built from 'an' word family (CVC) words and early sight words, for reading comprehension and fluency practice.
Phonics & word familiesSight words
Sight Words Dominoes Activity
Practice recognizing and matching pre-primer sight words using a dominoes-style tile matching activity for phonics and literacy centers.
Comprehension & listening
Back To School Listening Center With QR Codes (28 Books)
a listening-center resource pairing 28 back-to-school and school-social-skills picture books with QR codes that link to read-aloud videos, for use during independent reading rotations
Phonics & word familiesSight words
Build a Caterpillar Sight Words - 2nd Grade
A hands-on center activity where students build Dolch second-grade sight words using printable caterpillar head and body pieces.
Phonics & word families
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.
Phonics & word families
It's Winter! Kindergarten Math & Literacy Center: CVC Words
It's Winter! Kindergarten Math & Literacy Center: CVC Words Specifically developed for educators aiming to provide interesting, engaging, and grade-appropriate lessons, these worksheets help encourage children in whole group settings or as part of their independent homework assignment. This comprehensive resource fully complies with…
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Toss An Ending Interactive Game
A hands-on literacy center game practicing adding suffixes (-ed, -ing, -s) to base words.
Sight words
Football Sight Word Compound Match Up
A football-themed compound-word matching activity pairing sight-word halves to build and identify real compound words.
Comprehension & listening
Garden Growing Sensory Table
A hands-on sensory-table resource for a plants/spring/farm thematic unit, integrating reading, math, and writing with sensory play.
Literacy center collections
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.
Alphabet
Three Little Pigs Alphabet Match Cards
These are Three Little Pigs Alphabet Match Cards. You will print, laminate and cut the cards.
Phonics & word families
Halloween CVC Words Build Cards
Teaching students to sound out letters in the early stages of reading is a beginning to decoding and blending of CVC words that will eventually help build reading fluency.