2nd Grade Centers (by date, latest first)

Your students will love these back to school-themed alphabet centers designed to help students learn to identify the letters and letter sounds of the alphabet. Perfect for beginning-of-year literacy stations, these activities provide hands-on learning experiences that make learning your letters fun!

Each activity is available in color and black and white and each activity includes a recording sheet. This saves you time and allows students to be more independent while you are teaching small groups!

This is designed to help students develop their phonemic awareness and identify letters and letters sounds. The perfect beginning of year center for your reading block is right here!

Perfect For:

• Kindergarten classrooms
• Beginning of year review sessions
• Tutoring programs
• ESL/ELL student support

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Your students will love these back to school-themed CVC word centers designed to enhance phonics skills and reading fluency. Perfect for beginning-of-year literacy stations, these activities provide hands-on learning experiences that make decoding CVC words fun!

Each activity is available in color and black and white. Use the same recording sheet for all 5 activities, this saves you time and allows students to be more independent while you are teaching small groups!

This is designed to help students develop their phonics skills and better decode CVC words. The perfect beginning of year center for your reading block is right here!

Perfect For:

• Kindergarten classrooms
• Beginning-of-Year review sessions
• Tutoring programs
• ESL/ELL student support

Contact me at brittany@lucyslittlelearners.com

Check out my blog! Click here to visit LucysLittleLearners.com

Don’t forget to leave a review! It really helps my store reach more educators like you! I appreciate you!

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Keywords: CVC words, centers, Back to School, school supplies, beginning of year, August, September, Kindergarten, First grade, reading centers, reading stations, ELAR, phonics, consonant vowel consonant, sight words

Help your students master** CVC words** with these 20 engaging worksheets focusing on short vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u). Perfect for Kindergarten and 1st Grade phonics centers, morning work, or homework, these activities will help build decoding and spelling skills in a fun, hands-on way.

⭐ What’s Included:

✅ 20 printable worksheets

✅ Word searches for CVC words

✅ Cut & paste activities

✅ Short vowel (a, e, i, o, u) practice

✅ Picture and word matching

✅ Writing missing sounds

✅ CVC word scramble activities

⭐ How to Use:

✨ Use in small group phonics instruction

✨ Place in your literacy centers

✨ Send home for independent practice

✨ Use as morning work or early finisher activities

⭐ Why You’ll Love It:

✅ Easy prep – just print and use!

✅ Builds foundational phonics and spelling skills

✅ Engaging for young learners

✅ Clear, kid-friendly designs

CVC words

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Kindergarten phonics

first grade phonics

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cut and paste

word search

spelling practice

reading practice

Empower students with these 25 engaging Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and motivational coloring pages! Each sheet features bold, easy-to-color illustrations paired with encouraging messages like "You Matter," "Dream Big," and "Progress Not Perfection."

These pages are perfect for: ✅ Morning work ✅ Mindfulness centers ✅ Counseling sessions ✅ Early finishers ✅ Classroom décor ✅ Brain breaks or calm-down corners

Help your students build confidence, resilience, empathy, and gratitude while enjoying a relaxing and creative activity. Ideal for elementary classrooms, homeschool, and counseling offices.

Why you'll love it:

• Promotes growth mindset & emotional intelligence
• Clear, kid-friendly designs for all ages
• Print-and-go—no prep required
• Great for whole class or individual use

Total Pages: 25

✨ These coloring pages are no-prep, print-and-go, and designed to bring calm, creativity, and learning to your day. Great addition to the beginning of the school year, your classroom SEL lessons, or anytime!

Make reading fun and engaging with this How to Catch a Class Pet Reader’s Theater & Literacy Activities Pack! This companion resource is designed to support comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and writing—perfect for small groups, literacy centers, or whole-class lessons.

This Reader’s Theater for How to Catch a Class Pet includes two scripts—designed for 2 or 3 student roles—making it easy to adapt for different group sizes. Build fluency, expression, and confidence as students take on character parts and retell the Easter story in their own voices.

What’s Included:

Reader’s Theater Scripts

• Two versions: one for 2 students and one for 3 students
• Supports fluency, expression, and collaboration

Vocabulary Activity

• Students match key vocabulary words from the story to their definitions
• Includes an answer key

Rhyming Words Match

• Fun and engaging rhyming word activity based on the story
• Includes an answer key

Writing Prompt

• “What class pet should we get and why?”
• Encourages opinion writing and text-to-self connections

Word Search

• Features key words from the story
• Includes an answer key

This low-prep resource is perfect for extending your How to Catch a Class Pet read-aloud and helping students build critical literacy skills through meaningful, story-based activities.

About the Book

A group of clever kids sets out on a mission to catch their classroom's runaway pet using creative traps and teamwork. As the students put their plans into action, chaos and laughter follow with each unexpected twist. This fun, rhyming story celebrates problem-solving, persistence, and the joy of working together.

I hope you enjoy using this reader’s theater with your students.

AR Test No. 517605 Grade Level 2.7

Make Mother's Day literacy time engaging and educational with this Mother's Day Reader’s Theater Companion for The Night Before Mother's Day by Natasha Wing! Perfect for primary classrooms, small groups, or intervention settings, this resource brings the story to life with interactive scripts, comprehension practice, and fun bonus activities.

This Reader’s Theater for "The Night Before Mother's Day" includes three scripts—designed for 2, 3, and 4 student roles—making it easy to adapt for any group size. Build fluency, expression, and confidence as students take on character parts and retell the Easter story in their own voices.

What’s Included:

• Reader’s Theater Scripts for 2, 3, and 4 students

• Comprehension Questions featuring:

  • Multiple Choice
  • Short Answer

• Rhyming Words from the book

• Mother's Day Word Search featuring vocabulary from the book

• Answer Keys for both comprehension and word search

• **6 Different coloring page **and Mother's Day cards for your students

This Mother's Day Reader’s Theater activity is perfect for:

• Small group reading instruction
• Fluency practice
• Literacy centers
• Substitute plans
• Spring reading celebrations

Whether you’re looking for a low-prep Mother's Day reading activity or a fun way to build reading skills around a seasonal book, this pack has everything you need!

About the Book

It's the night before Mother's Day, and Dad and the kids are determined to show Mom just how much they love her. They whip up a cake from scratch, and offer a special coupon for a day at the spa, right in their own kitchen! Kids and moms will love reading this sweet story aloud together for a fun way to celebrate Mother's Day.

I hope you enjoy using this reader’s theater with your students.

AR Test No. 136256 Grade Level 2.7

Teach your students the "magic" of the silent e long vowel letter pattern with these fun and engaging fairytale themed activities and recording sheets. Great for centers, stations, small groups and more! Perfect for girls and boys alike, take your students on a fantasy adventure while learning about CVCe words.

Four fun activities are included in both color and black and white. Each activity also includes a recording sheet.

Activities included:

Easy Cut Matching Puzzles - students will match the picture to the CVCe word and trace a line to the correct word on the recording sheet.

Fairytale Board Game - students will choose a playing piece. Playing pieces include prince, princess (3 different skin tones for each), horse, frog, or dragon. Students use the spinner or roll a die, move the correct number of spaces and read the CVCe word. Students will then trace the word on the recording sheet.

Magic "e" CVC to CVCe Write and Wipe Cards - Students will look at the CVC word and add the silent e to the word. Students will then write the word on the card and on the recording sheet.

Magic Mirror Unscrambling - Students will use the image in the magic mirror to help unscramble the letters on the card to form a CVCe word. Students will write the word on the card and then write the word on the recording sheet.

Perfect for your fairytale unit, phonics lessons, small groups, tutoring, morning bins, independent practice and more!

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fairytale, princess, unicorn, queen, king, castle, unicorn, crown, dragon, CVCe words, silent e, magic e, long vowel words, first grade, kindergarten, second grade, phonics, reading

This BUNDLE includes 70+ unique gaming pages of Upside-Down Candyland, Ring of Fire, Claw Collector, and Litterbox. Use these coloring pages for early finishers, indoor recess, brain-breaks, writing prompts and more! Get students motivated and engaged in semi-difficult tasks with these eye-popping Gaming Pages.

Please remember that using any of my original artworks for future commercial use is prohibited.

This is not a clipart product. This product cannot be used in any way for your own freebies or products.

This product is for personal use only and cannot be copied, redistributed or reposted by others.

If you enjoy these Gaming Pages, please check out my TeachShare store for more similar coloring pages, plus my in-depth art lessons/units.

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These creative Claw Collector Movement Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

These creative “Ring of Fire” Movement Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

These creative Upside-Down Candyland Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

These creative Litter Box Movement Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

These creative Litter Box Movement Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

These creative Claw Collector Movement Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

These creative “Ring of Fire” Movement Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

These creative Upside-Down Candyland Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

These creative “Ring of Fire” Movement Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

These creative Claw Collector Movement Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

These creative Litter Box Movement Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

These creative Upside-Down Candyland Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.