Literacy Center Activities for Kindergarten

Literacy center activities for Kindergarten with sight word and CVC centers
The literacy work stations my students have been busy with this rotation are outlined below.
If you like them, there are several freebies included!
Literacy centers and word work activities for Kindergarten and First Grade

GRAB & DAB

Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!
I put magnetic letters into a drawstring bag {that students could not see into}. They took turns reaching inside and drawing a letter. The letter was put on a magnetic board so that everyone in the group could see what it was.
Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!
Using bingo markers, students found the letter on their sheet and marked it with a dot. The activity continued until all the letters had been found & stamped. It's part of my literacy centers activity pack!
This page could also be used as a magazine search, where students cut out letters from magazines and glue them onto the alphabet page.

SPIN-A-WORD

Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!
This activity was beyond fun!

I made a sheet of sight words and put it into a paper tray.
Students took turns spinning a top, then recording on a graph what word it landed on.
Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!

Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!
Play continued until one of the columns was filled in.

Here's an alphabet version of this activity:
Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!
Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!

SIGHT WORD BOOK

Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!
My sight word lesson format is described in this post.
This time, we worked on Hubbard's Cupboard sight word book called Seeds.
Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!
It introduces our new sight word, which we proceeded to put on our High-Five chart.
Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!

CVC SPELLING

Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!

Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!
I made this CVC, CCVC, CVCC set where students use letter tiles or magnetic letters to create words.

I had my students make the words on the CVC cards, then print the word onto their sheets.
Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!

Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!
They sounded out CVC words and sorted if the words were silly or real.
Hands-on literacy centers for young learners & word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!
Hands-on literacy centers for young learners& word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!

LISTENING CENTER

Hands-on literacy centers for young learners& word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!
This round our listening center includes the story Arthur's Tooth.
Hands-on literacy centers for young learners& word work activities perfect for Kindergarten!
Students listened to the story, then filled in this listening center story response page .

15 comments

  1. Great ideas! Thanks for sharing! =)

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  2. These are amazing, thanks for taking the time to share...

    KinderKiddies1.blogspot.com

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  3. Lots of activities! Thanks for sharing!
    Lori
    Conversations in Literacy

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  4. cute ideas.....thanks for sharing!

    Sue :)
    theverybusykindergarten

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  5. Thank you for the freebies. I LOVE your blog and truly appreciate your generosity. It's been a long day and I look at blogs as my way to unwind. It is so fun to get some new recording sheets!!!
    Erika

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  6. I love all of your ideas! I can't wait to work on getting some together this summer. I am switching to a prek/k classroom next year so your blogs are going to be a huge help to me!

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  7. Love the idea of a spinning top and graphing for sight words! Thanks! :)

    Mary
    Mrs. Lirette's Learning Detectives

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  8. I can't figure out how to print these!?!

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  9. @Kris
    I'm not sure what you're having trouble printing...but everything that's written in orange is the link to the printables.

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  10. Anita,

    Thank you for sharing your literacy ideas with us. This are great and I can not wait to incorporate them into my kindergarten classroom. I too look forward to being able to share ideas with you as well. I am new to the blogging world and would love it if you would follow my blog.

    http://kindnesscountinkindergarten.blogspot.com

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  11. http://kindnesscountsinkindergarten.blogspot.com
    I forgot the "s"

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  12. I am new to blogging and I try real hard to mention where I find my ideas however when on pinterest I don't always pin ideas and sometimes write them but if I forget where I found the idea I say I saw it on pinterest. I dont think there is away but if you see the idea thayb originated from your page you can say I love your idea I do something like that as well and link it to yourbpage and people should make a connection.

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  13. Hi there...love your alphabet sheet for stamp-a-letter. Do you have it with lower case letters too? If so, would you mind sharing?

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  14. Anita, Thanks for sharing some of your word work activities and freebies! I was wondering if you could email me an editable version of Spin-a-Word? I'd love to be able to change the sight words, so I could use this activity with my Kinders more than once. Thanks! Bgossett@usd497.org

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