Literacy centers

Classroom teachers have a ton of daily tasks to guarantee that students are engaged and learning. It's a tough job, and a stressful one, too. Teachers wear out easily if their classrooms aren't well managed. Creating a classroom that runs itself while you teach in smaller groups is the best way to keep students engaged.

Simple kindergarten literacy stations that will last you ALL YEAR! Let me show you how to simplify your students learning. Writing, stamping, listening, and so many other center ideas are in this blog post to help your students gain independence.

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Help your students build strong phonemic awareness and phonics skills with these fun and hands-on beginning sounds activities and worksheets.

Combining sight words and word families is the perfect way to start a child's reading journey. Download free printable worksheets and centers!

Learn quick and easy ideas to help you with setting up reading centers and literacy centers in your classroom. Get them organized for the year.

A great variation to this would be to make a game of it. BINGO would make a great class activity, but this would be better suited for a small group of 4-6 players in small group centers. Have the cards either in a pile in the center of the table, or inside a box where they'd have to be drawn out. First person to cover all their squares correctly wins! Of course, the other kids can check that person's card to make sure the squares were covered correctly.

This sentence building literacy center is a fun (and sometimes hilarious) way to have your students build high quality sentences. Each of the sentences include pronouns, determiners, adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs and prepositional phrases. It will provide them with the opportunity to play with words and see how specific words can add and change the meaning of a sentence.There are 2 board options included (see thumbnails) as well as recording sheets for your students to write out the…

Learn how to easily get started with your science of reading literacy centers to reach every reader and move them forward without the stress!

These pumpkin CVC puzzles make the perfect fall literacy center for kindergarten and first grade students. Students will love putting pumpkin puzzle pieces together to build words that match each picture! Teachers will love the easy set up and engaging game for their students! #CVCwords #literacycenters #fallcenters