1st Grade Phonics Centers (by date, oldest first)

Students can use this blending board to "drive" small cars to each letter, stopping at the circles to state the letter sounds. Students can "drive" the cars faster or more slowly to practice blending sounds to make words.

Now digital and printable!

Serve up some phonics fun with this pizza-themed vowel sound sorting activity! Print, laminate, and cut out the pizza crusts and pepperonis. Your students will sort the pepperonis onto the correct pizzas by matching the pictures to the vowel sounds they contain. These fun pizzas will help your students learn to differentiate vowel sounds for all vowels. Clip art from Pink Cat Studio, Anika, and Preschool Curriculum

For more foodie fun, download my Sight Word Spaghetti!

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Popcorn Pathway is a fun way to help students practice CVC words with the short O sound. This is a perfect game for small group stations or to play during free time. Directions are included, but you are encouraged to change up the rules to according to your students' needs.

Print and laminate alphabet arc, picture cards, and arrow. Punch a hole where indicated on the alphabet arc and attach the arrow to the arc with a brad. 

Students will draw a picture card, place it in the box under the arc, and match the picture to its beginning sound (with the exception of boX for X) by rotating the spinning arrow to point to the correct letter. Alternately, students could turn over a card and place it in front of them, rotate the arrow to the correct letter, and then write the letter with a dry erase marker in the box below the arc for additional writing practice. Pictures coordinate with the key words from the Phonics First program, but this product is in no way related to Orton-Gillingham or its affiliates.

Clip art from PicMonkey

Font is KG Red Hands

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Grab some red and white checked table clothes, play some Italian music, and grab these activities for a super simple, super FUN Italian restaurant themed classroom transformation.

NO PREP; SOR ALIGNED HIGH-FREQUENCY WORD PAGES| When we know better we do better! High-frequency words need to be mapped in our brains! I use this sheet as a quick practice for my students during small group or center time! I use the 107 Zeno word list because these words comprise 50% of all text. No need to teach 300 words! That is more work for you and your students! With this resource, you can easily differentiate what words you are teaching! Throw away the boring flashcards and opt for a resource that ACTUALLY WORKS!

To get a pattern to STICK in a new readers brain we need to read AND spell with a word and provide context. These self-correcting picture cards are perfect to achieve that goal!

Within this product your child will be exposed to beginning and end blends with short vowels. You can have the child read the card and flip it over to see if the picture matches the word or you can use the spelling mats to have the child look at the picture, say the word, and spell the word. When they are done they can flip the card over to check their spelling.

Early readers need to read text that is decodable! If your child is working on reading CVC words and high-frequency words these passages are perfect! When they read a decodable reader it gives them confidence in reading stories and it helps them practice the phonics skill they are working on! These decodable passages have two options. One is scaffolded so that they can practice reading the words in isolation that they will see in the text. Tip-you can highlight the CVC words and high-frequency words they read in isolation in the text.

Included:

10 vowel-specific passages

8 Mixed vowel passages

Comprehension for all stories

Scaffolded Passage and Regular Passage

Reading and orthographic mapping (spelling) go hand in hand! If you want your students to master the ability to read phonetic patterns they need to read words with the pattern, identify meaning, and map the sounds via spelling! These sheets are perfect to practice this skill! This product includes words with th, sh, ch, wh, and ck. All of the words have short vowels so these are great for those kiddos that haven't mastered reading other vowel patterns! I have a page for each digraph and pages where the digraphs are mixed!

These are great to use in centers, interventions, or as practice after teaching a lesson working with each digraph! The best part-NO PREP! Print and get to work!

This Letter Puzzle is an engaging letter game designed to develop first-sound fluency and letter-sound recognition in young learners. Each puzzle presents a colorful illustration of an animal, object, or character, accompanied by a selection of black and white pictures representing the sounds heard at the beginning of the word. The objective is simple: match the correct picture to the corresponding sound of the letter.

As children explore the puzzles, they're not only honing their ability to identify initial sounds but also reinforcing their understanding of letter-sound correspondence. With a range of vibrant and appealing visuals, the game offers an immersive learning experience that captures children's attention and motivates them to participate actively.

Why You Will Want to Use This Letter Puzzle:

1. Foundational Literacy Skills: The Letter Puzzle provides an interactive platform for children to develop essential literacy skills from an early age. By focusing on first sound fluency and letter sound recognition, it lays a solid foundation for future reading and writing success.
2. Engaging and Interactive Learning: Unlike traditional flashcards or worksheets, The Letter Puzzle transforms letter practice into an exciting adventure. Children are drawn into the game's world of colorful illustrations and playful challenges, making learning feel like play.
3. Positive Reinforcement: Every correct match in the Letter Puzzle is met with immediate feedback and encouragement, fostering a sense of accomplishment and boosting children's confidence in their letter-sound skills.
4. Great for Centers: Playing with the Letter Puzzle can be a great way to work on the alphabet and keep them engaged. No more wondering and coming to interrupt small groups!

In conclusion, the Letter Puzzle offers a delightful way for children to practice first sound fluency and letter sound recognition, paving the way for successful literacy development. With its engaging gameplay and educational benefits, parents can feel confident in using this puzzle game to support their early literacy journey.

Use in centers, small groups, or as an early finisher activity. My kids are always begging me to play this game!

This game includes all 107 Zeno Sight Words. I teach the 107 Sight Words because they are the most narrowed-down list of the most commonly used words in texts. It is important your child can read these words quickly and accurately for success in reading! 

I broke the words up into 8 sets so that each set would have 52 cards to keep the game engaging and not too long! This also allows you to easily differentiate the game by choosing the set that has more words that your child needs to work on! Each set is color-coded so if cards get mixed up you can easily find their place!

Included:

• Go Fish Rules

• 8 sets of cards

• Each set has 52 cards

• Endless amounts of fun!

*Prep time is needed. I suggest you print these on card stock and laminate them for more durability. Printing on normal paper will work too! Print the set of cards and cut them out!

NO PREP Letter Matching Practice! Practice recognizing upper and lowercase letters with this cut-and-paste page! Perfect for small groups or centers! Print and work on letters they need as many times as they need!

This is a great way to work on first sound fluency and letter sounds!

Reading and letters can be FUN! These games are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! I give different tips and tricks to work on each skill! I would use these as a Friday fun day during small-groups and my students loved them! These games don't have any prep! Print and play! I would suggest laminating or sticking in a sheet protector to keep them nice for a longer period of time!

Includes:

All 26 letters of the alphabet

Letter names and sounds

Reading words with word families

Reading words with short vowels (a, e, i, o, u)

Reading 1-25 Zeno High-Frequency Words

Roll and Read

Board Games

Bingo

Learning and practicing letters can be FUN! These games are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! I give different tips and tricks to work on the skill! I would use these as a Friday fun day during small groups and my students loved them! These games don't have any prep! Print and play! I would suggest laminating or sticking in a sheet protector to keep them nice for a longer period of time!

Includes:

All 26 letters of the alphabet

Letter names and sounds

Vowel Sounds (a, e, i, o, u)

Roll and Read

Board Games

Bingo

Reading and learning high-frequency words can be FUN! I use the 107 Zeno Word list because they comprise 50% of all text. No need to work on 300-plus words like other lists! These games are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! I give different tips and tricks to work on the skill! I would use these as a Friday fun day during small groups and my students loved them! These games don't have any prep! Print and play! I would suggest laminating or sticking in a sheet protector to keep them nice for a longer period of time!

Includes:

Reading 1-25 Zeno High-Frequency Words

Roll and Read

Board Games

Bingo

Let's be honest, phonemic awareness can be SO boring for our students! Whenever we are working on it they want to use the words in sentences or want to see a picture of what that word means! Now they have a picture to connect to the word!

These cards are so much fun my students beg me to work with them! I let them choose their manipulative; whether it is play-dough to tap, legos, chips, or blocks! This also gives those kiddos struggling with blending and segmenting a concrete method to gain those skills!

The cards are broken into each vowel so that you can easily practice phonemic awareness with the vowel you are working on. You can also mix them up so they can practice the skill for each vowel!

-Includes

-vowels; ar,or,er,ur,ir

-R-controlled vowel words with a picture

-Sound boxes on the front

-The word and amount of sounds on the back for self-correction!

First sound fluency is the ability to identify the first sound in a word. To learn to read children need to be able to break words into their sounds! This is a great way to think about sounds in words and the letters that represent those sounds! No prep, print, and cut and paste!

These are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! Slide them in sheet protectors or laminate and you can reuse them! You can print these cards double-sided (on the short side) so that students can self-correct!

This creates meaning for words that follow the phonics pattern they are learning. This is important in helping the child turn these words into sight words!

These are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! Slide them in sheet protectors or laminate and you can reuse them! You can print these cards double-sided (on the short side) so that students can self-correct!

This creates meaning for words that follow the phonics pattern they are learning. This is important in helping the child turn these words into sight words!