Free 1st Grade Phonics Centers (by date, latest first)

This KN beginning digraph word card set can be used for dozens of activities! Great for phonics, writing, ELL students and more!

Possible uses include: reading small groups, reading fluency, vocabulary, writing folders, writing centers, word wall words, labeling, flash cards, matching, sorting, pocket chart centers, reading stations, and phonics games.

Featuring 13 kn- words and 19 pages of word charts and individual word cards in both color and black and white! Word cards and word charts also included highlighted letter patterns on colored pages and underlined letter patterns on the black and white pages. Pages without highlighted letter patterns are also available. Each word has a visual next to it, making this resource great for ESL and ELL students!

Kn Beginning Digraph Words Included:

1. Knapsack
2. Knead
3. Knee
4. Kneel
5. Knife
6. Knight
7. Knit
8. Knob
9. Knock
10. Knot
11. Know
12. Knuckle
13. Knothole

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VC words are simple, two-letter words made up of a vowel followed by a consonant, such as "at," "in," or "up." These words are beneficial for early readers because they introduce basic phonics skills, helping students recognize and blend vowel and consonant sounds. Mastering VC words builds a strong foundation for decoding more complex words, improves reading fluency, and boosts confidence in early literacy development.

Benefits

• Mastering sound blending

• Developing fluency in reading phonetically regular words

• Supports early literacy skill development

• Lays the groundwork for advanced reading comprehension

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Do you use Benchmark Literacy? Are you looking for extra activities to use with your kids? This Four in a Row game is perfect to use in your classroom! It goes along with Benchmark Literacy Phonics Unit 1 - l-family blends (cl, bl, fl, pl, and sl). In this product you will find four different versions to use in your classroom. The first two pages of this document have only the decodable words for this unit. The third and fourth page of this document have decodable words along with the sight words. How I use Four in a Row in my classroom: The students play with a partner and each group gets a set of double sided counters. Our counters are yellow and red. One student is red and the other student is yellow. The students take turns and say a word. If the word is read correctly, the student can put a counter on that space. The other student gets a turn and place a counter on the space if they say the word correctly. If a student says a word incorrectly, they do not get to place a counter on the space and it is the other person’s turn. The game continues until one student has four counters in a row across, diagonally, or up and down. Unit 1 "BANG" game Other 1st Grade Benchmark Literacy Phonics Activities *** How to get TeachShare credits to use on future purchases *** Go to your My Purchases page. Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button, click it and you will be taken to a page where you can leave a quick rating and a short comment about the product. Why is feedback so important? Each time you provide feedback, you’ll earn TeachShare credits that can be applied to future purchases to save you money! Plus, the feedback you provide helps me make my products better suit your needs! *** How To Follow My Store *** Click the green star beside my name at the top of this page OR at the top of my store page. Following me notifies you when I post a new item and you will receive customized email updates about my store.

This product is a supplemental activity to make your lessons more engaging! This product is the BANG! word game using decodable words and sight words from 1st Grade Benchmark Literacy Phonics Unit 1. Benchmark Literacy Phonics Unit 1 is beginning l-family blends (cl, bl, fl, pl, and sl). This produce includes four pages. The decodable words are on the first two pages and the sight words are on the last two pages. There are a total of 40 card which includes 16 decodable words, 14 sight words, and 10 "BANG!" cards. The cards can also be used as flashcards! Directions on how to play: • Students take turns drawing the cards from a face-down pile and try to say the word on the card. • If they can say the word correctly, they get to keep the card. If they cannot, the card goes on the bottom of the card for someone else to have a chance. If playing with only two students, the partner gets a turn and can keep the card if they know it. • When a Bang! card is drawn from the pile the student who drew it has to return all their cards to the bottom of the pile. The Bang! card is not put back into the can. • The game ends when all the cards are drawn. The student with the most cards is the winner! This game is perfect for partner work or small groups! Unit 1 Four in a Row Units 1-10 "BANG" game Bundle Other 1st Grade Benchmark Literacy Phonics Activities *** How to get TeachShare credits to use on future purchases *** Go to your My Purchases page. Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button, click it and you will be taken to a page where you can leave a quick rating and a short comment about the product. Why is feedback so important? Each time you provide feedback, you’ll earn TeachShare credits that can be applied to future purchases to save you money! Plus, the feedback you provide helps me make my products better suit your needs! *** How To Follow My Store *** Click the green star beside my name at the top of this page OR at the top of my store page. Following me notifies you when I post a new item and you will receive customized email updates about my store.

This packet includes 2 activities to practice short vowel sounds aligned to UFLI lessons 8-18 from the Vital Vowels Short Vowel Series which has all 5 activities. Learning the vowel sounds and why they make the sounds they do is VITAL to fluent reading. Vital Vowels is a daily practice in saying vowel sounds. This packet includes 2 activities to practice short vowel sounds aligned to UFLI lessons 8-18. These activities are intended to be used daily as a quick practice. They can be used in whole group instruction on the projector, in small group instruction differentiated to what students need, in a center rotation, or even for homework. Use the corresponding lesson AFTER it is explicitly taught and continue to use the same activity until the next vowel is taught, then move to the next level.

This FREEBIE pack includes two activities for practicing the short vowels up through lesson 53. Each activity in this pack includes the breve symbol for the short vowel sound. A blank chart is included for each activity to create your own targeted instruction. Slide it into a clear cover and write your own.

If your students enjoy these activities, check out all 5 activities in the full Short Vowel Packhere.

Check out the rest of the Vital Vowels Series that includes long vowels, vowel teams, diphthongs, and advanced vowels through lesson 118. *COMING SOON*

Have you ever wished students in the prereading and early reading stage could have opportunities to be fluent and build automaticity? How can students who barely know letter names and sounds become fluent? Ready Reads are just what you are looking for.

Ready Reads are warm up activities for the eyes and the brain and can support any curriculum. Ready Read charts cumulatively follow the scope and sequence of UFLI and support the Science of Reading. Use these in small group, whole group on the projector, in partners for accountability, or for students to whisper read to themselves. They can easily be adapted in an I read, We read, You read or Your turn, My turn format. Ready Reads can be used for students to say the letter name and/or the letter sound practicing grapheme recognition as well as phoneme recall. For pre-readers and early readers alike, this activity builds the left to right progression of reading and builds fluency for letters and concepts already learned. This is the building block for automaticity and fluent reading.

This freebie gets you started up to lesson 3. Get the full resource for Kinder, 1st, and 2nd to build your students' automaticity here! Kinder here 1st-2nd *Coming Soon*

Build a CVC Word- A Digital Resource for Google Slides

Build a CVC Word is a fun resource designed to make phonics practice exciting and interactive for your early learners! Perfect for both classroom and distance learning, this resource is hosted on Google Slides, providing a hassle-free way to reinforce CVC word recognition. Students will drag and move the letter tiles to build each CVC word. Teachers can easily integrate this resource into their Google Classroom assignments. This set also contains a BONUS printable version of Build a CVC Word that can be used for additional practice!

This FREE short a word families phonics reading passage with activities, fluency, and comprehension questions are the perfect addition to your phonics instruction and phonics and reading small groups for intervention. These phonics worksheets will work for kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and even for upper grades intervention. This resource has 1 short a word family passage with 5 different activities per passage to help your different learners practice blending, reading fluency, and gaining practice with Short A words.

This Product Includes:

► 1 short A phonics reading passage

► Blending practice

► Circling word family words in passage

► Multiply choice comprehension questions

► Written response comprehension questions

► Read and illustrate a picture

With This Product You'll Get:

⭐ -AT FAMILY

Need more passages?

• Short A Word Families Phonics Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions

• Short E Word Families Phonics Reading Passages with Comprehension Activities

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Letter Aa Fun Activity. Create Mr. Happy Apple.

How to Play: Match the letters on the pumpkin patch. You may choose to use uppercase or lowercase letters.

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I created this worksheet to go along with UFLI for students who need additional practice with the focus letters, practicing heart words, and reading words.

Directions: Roll the dice. Read the word. Color the box.

Includes:

Letters: A, a

Heart Words: the

Looking for some fun CVC activities to add to your small group or reading stations this spooky season? Look no further!

This freebie is a sample of my Spooky Stations BUNDLE that can be found in my store! Enjoy 20 pages of Halloween themed short vowel CVC matching cards perfect for reading small groups, centers or tutoring. Each vowel has 8 matching cards and all cards are available in full color or printer friendly black and white.

Need something more specific? Check out the links to each individual product found in the Spooky Stations bundle below. Each product has four CVC activities in color and black and white for every vowel sound.

Short A CVC Spooky Stations

Short E CVC Spooky Stations

Short I CVC Spooky Stations

Short O CVC Spooky Stations

Short U CVC Spooky Stations

Feel free to email me at lucyslittlelearnersTeachShare@gmail.com with any questions or suggestions.

Short A- Easy Guided Reading Small Group Lesson Plans for 1st Grade- Print & Go!

CVC Words & Reading Fluency included!  Guided reading instruction & planning made EASY, consistent, effortless, and engaging!

Take the guesswork, hours of planning, & the headache out of prepping for your small group guided reading instruction!

Teaching word families and practicing nonsense cvc words has a dramatic impact on reading fluency in early readers.  Year over year, over 80% of my students achieve benchmark or higher in reading fluency and nonsense cvc word fluency using this amazing resource I created.

What you get with this Short A- Easy Guided Reading Small Group Lesson Plans for 1st Grade- Print & Go! unit:

A week's worth of researched-based, classroom-tested word family sorts

Labels for word family sort envelopes (These are the envelopes I use)

Word work pages to work on segmenting, blending, and handwriting

Reading fluency passages and assessment

Nonsense cvc word practice and assessment

Word family BINGO and word family coloring pages

Sample small group schedule and tracking sheets to help plan your small groups or for use at home

Just print & teach! EASY!✔️

Word Families included:

at

an

and mixed short a

Check out all the Short Vowel Small Group plans here:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Small-Groups-Made-EaSY-Short-Vowel-Unit-Bundle-4500806

Save by purchasing all 32 word family units here:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Word-Families-made-EASY-Resources-for-the-YEAR-CVC-Words-Reading-Fluency-too-5813750

These resources work well with any curriculum (homeschool curriculum, reach for reading, wonders, etc)

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Sparkling Letter A Activities: Engaging Worksheets for PreK & Kindergarten!

Are you looking for fun and educational activities to teach the letter A? Look no further! This downloadable pack is packed with engaging worksheets that will help your PreK and Kindergarten students master letter recognition, sounds, and formation.

Activities Included:

• Tracing & Coloring: Develop fine motor skills and letter recognition with trace and color activities (uppercase & lowercase).
• Matching & Sorting: Strengthen visual discrimination skills with picture matching, letter sorting, and sorting by uppercase/lowercase.
• Phonics & Word Work: Build foundational phonics skills with activities that explore the "A" sound, including "Color by Letter" and "Word Match."
• Creative Fun: Encourage creativity with "Draw a Picture Beginning with A" and shape coloring activities.
• Bonus Activities: Challenge young learners with additional worksheets like "Connect the Dots," "Letter Mazes," and picture puzzles.

What You Get:

• A variety of engaging worksheets (over 20!) to keep students interested and learning.
• Clear instructions for each activity.
• Age-appropriate content perfect for PreK and Kindergarten students.

Help your students embark on a captivating adventure through the alphabet with this exciting Letter A activity pack!

"Welcome to 'The Letter A! Alphabet Letter of the Week' series, where we embark on an exciting journey through the alphabet, one letter at a time. In this captivating series, we delve into the world of letters, starting with the remarkable letter A. Each week, we explore the wonders of the alphabet, uncovering the sounds, shapes, and significance of each letter. Join us as we discover words and objects that begin with the letter A, igniting curiosity and fostering a love for learning in young minds.

Our product contains a diverse range of engaging activities designed to enhance learning and creativity:

• 2× Trace the letter
• 2× Color the letter
• 2× Color the picture
• 2× Connect the dots
• 2× Color by letter
• 2× Color by number
• 2× Letter puzzles
• 1× Add the missing A
• 1× Match and add letter A
• 1× Sort the pictures
• 1× Letter sort
• 1× Draw a picture beginning with letter A
• 2× Color the shapes
• 1× Add the missing letter (uppercase and lowercase)
• 1× Word match
• 1× Picture puzzle
• 1× Letter maze

From apple to astronaut, from ant to armadillo, 'The Letter A! Alphabet Letter of the Week' promises to engage, entertain, and educate both children and adults alike. Get ready to dive into the alphabet with enthusiasm and excitement as we celebrate the beginning of our journey with the remarkable letter A!"

CVC -at Words Family Crowns Craft

Empower your little learners to become CVC word champions with this engaging hat/headband craft activity!

In this download you will receive:

• PDF files includes 8 Crowns.
• Crown extenders to staple around students heads.

This resource is perfect for:

• Literacy centers
• Independent practice
• Whole-group activities

⭐ This download is a sample from my:

CVC Words Middle A Crown Craft, Color & Write Hats Headband Phonics Activity

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FREEBIE Dolch Sight Words Pre-Primer Board Game

Make learning sight words fun and engaging with this Dolch Sight Words Pre-Primer Board Game! Designed for early readers, this interactive game helps students practice and master pre-primer sight words in an exciting way.

Perfect for:

• Literacy Centers,
• Small groups, or
• for at-home practice.

This FREE resource is sample of our SIGHT WORDS BOARD GAME

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These reading and writing activity cards are perfect for beginning readers! Children get to blend words, color the matching picture and practice writing the words. These cards can be used in centers or for one to one support. This freebie includes 14 cvc words. For more cards check out my full bundle in my store!

This Summer Roll and Read Phonics worksheets for R-Controlled Vowels (or bossy r) will help students improve reading fluency and decoding skills. This game includes the ER, IR and UR pattern. Use it for Summer phonics activities, end of the year review, literacy centers, guided reading, morning work, Daily 5, literacy activities and more! These games are great for kindergarten, first grade and second grade students.

⭐ Save 25% with the Summer Roll & Read Bundle! ⭐

⭐ Save 30% with the R-Controlled Vowel Roll & Read Growing Bundle! ⭐

What's included:

• 1 er, ir & ur roll & read game
• Directions page
• Color & black and white options

How to play:

• Roll a die, read a word on the corresponding sun and color it!
• Keep rolling and reading until one whole sun is colored first OR all of the suns are colored!

More EOY Roll & Read Resources:

R-Controlled Vowels

Long Vowel Teams

Hard & Soft C & G

CVCe Long Vowels

CVC, Blends & Digraphs

More End of the Year Resources:

Awards

Memory Book

Craft Crowns

100 Chart Mystery Pictures

This apple themed roll and read phonics worksheets for CVC words will help students improve reading fluency and decoding skills. Use it for a first week of school phonics activity, literacy center, guided reading activity, morning work, Johnny Appleseed activity, and more! This games is great for kindergarten, first grade and second grade students.

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⭐ Save 25% with the Back to School Roll & Read Bundle! ⭐

⭐ Save 30% with the Roll & Read Seasonal Growing Bundle! ⭐

What's Included:

• 1 mixed CVC short vowel board
• Directions page
• Color & black and white option

How to play:

• Roll a die, read a word on the corresponding apple and color it!
• Keep rolling and reading until one whole apple is colored first OR all of the apples are colored!

More Back to School Roll & Read Games:

CVC, Blends & Digraphs

CVCe Long Vowels

Long Vowel Teams

R-Controlled Vowels

Hard & Soft C & G

More Back to School Resources:

Back to School Activities for 1st-3rd Grade

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Birthday Crowns, Certificates & Pencil Toppers

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