Free 2nd 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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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*

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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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!

Boost reading fluency and decoding skills with this turkey-themed Thanksgiving Roll & Read CVC activity! Designed for Kindergarten to 2nd grade, students practice phonics and CVC words in a fun, seasonal game. Perfect for literacy centers to strengthen early reading skills.

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✨ Save 30% with the Thanksgiving Roll & Read Bundle!✨

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

What's Included:

• 1 mixed CVC game
• Directions page
• Color & black and white options

How to play:

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

More Thanksgiving Roll & Reads:

CVCe Long Vowels

Long Vowel Teams

R-Controlled Vowels

Hard/Soft C & G

More Fall Resources:

Sweet As Pie Craft & Writing Activities

Thanksgiving Roll & Race Within 10

Thanksgiving Roll & Race Within 20

After Fall Break Resources:

Spin & Chat Icebreaker Game

After Fall Break Reflections

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

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 Saint Patrick's Day Roll and Read Phonics worksheet for hard and soft c words freebie will help students improve reading fluency and decoding skills. Use it for St. Patrick's Day phonics activities, literacy centers, guided reading, morning work, Daily 5, literacy activities and more! This game is great for first grade, second grade and third grade students.

⭐Save 25% with the St. Patrick's Day Roll & Read Games Bundle!⭐

⭐Save 30% with the St. Patrick's Day Math and Phonics Games Bundle!⭐

What's included:

• 1 mixed hard and soft c game
• Directions page
• Color & black and white options

Directions:

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

Need more phonics activities? Click the links below!

Phonics Roll & Read Growing Bundle

Roll & Read - Hard and Soft C & G

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

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

Gift Tags

Birthday Crowns, Certificates & Pencil Toppers

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

This roll and read phonics worksheet help students improve decoding and fluency skills. This hard and soft g game is perfect for literacy centers, morning work, small groups, homework, sub plans and more! First grade, second grade and third grade students will practice their fluency and beginning reading skills by rolling a dice and then reading the matching word.

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✨ Save 30% with the Roll and Read Hard and Soft C & G Bundle! ✨

What's included:

• 1 hard and soft g board
• directions page

How to play:

• Students can play individually or with partners.
• Roll the dot cube. Read the first word in the row. Cover the word with a counter or color in the box. Keep rolling and reading sentences until someone reaches the top of a column first!

More Roll & Read Phonics Words:

Short Vowel CVC

Digraphs

Blends

Long Vowel Teams

R Controlled Vowels

More Roll & Read Phonics Sentences:

Short Vowel CVC

Hard and Soft C & G

This short vowel digraph roll and read phonics worksheet will help students improve their decoding and fluency skills with SH pattern. Use it for literacy centers, guided reading, morning work, Daily 5, literacy activities and more! This game is great for kindergarten, first grade and second grade.

✨Get the full version HERE!✨

⭐Save 30% with the Roll and Read Growing Bundle!⭐

⭐Save 30% with the**Blends & Digraphs Roll & Read Bundle!**⭐

What's Included:

• 1 sh board

How to play:

• Students can play individually or with partners.
• Roll the dot cube. Read the first word in the row. Cover the word with a counter or color in the box. Keep rolling and reading words until someone reaches the top of a column first!

More Roll & Read Games:

CVC Short Vowels

Beginning Blends

Long Vowel Teams

R-Controlled Vowels

Hard and Soft C & G

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

This pumpkin themed roll and read phonics worksheet for CVCe long vowels (or magic E) will help students improve reading fluency and decoding skills. Use it for autumn phonics activities, literacy centers, guided reading, morning work, Daily 5, literacy activities, and more! This game is great for kindergarten, first grade and second grade students.

✨ Get the full version HERE! ✨

⭐ Save 30% with the Fall Roll & Read Bundle!⭐

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

Games included (9 total games):

• 1 mixed CVCe game
• Directions page
• Color & black and white options

How to play:

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

Fall Roll & Read Resources:

Hard and Soft C & G

R-Controlled Vowels

Long Vowel Teams

CVC, Blends & Digraphs

Fall Roll & Race Resources:

Addition & Subtraction Within 10

Addition & Subtraction Within 20

More Fall Resources:

Sweet As Pie Craft & Writing Activities

Fall Break Reflections

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

This final blend roll and read phonics worksheet will help students improve their decoding and fluency skills with ft, ld, lf, lk, lp, lt, mp, nd, ng, nk, nt, pt, sk, st, and sp patterns. Use it for literacy centers, guided reading, morning work, Daily 5, literacy activities and more! This game is great for kindergarten, first grade and second grade.

✨Get the full version HERE!✨

⭐Save 30% with the Roll and Read Growing Bundle!⭐

⭐Save 30% with the Blends & Digraphs Roll & Read Bundle!⭐

Games included (11 total boards):

• 1 mixed ending blends board

How to play:

• Students can play individually or with partners.
• Roll the dot cube. Read the first word in the row. Cover the word with a counter or color in the box. Keep rolling and reading words until someone reaches the top of a column first!

More Roll & Read Games:

CVC Short Vowels

Beginning Blends

Digraphs

Long Vowel Teams

R-Controlled Vowels

Hard and Soft C & G

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

This bat themed roll and read phonics worksheet for long vowel teams will help students improve reading fluency and decoding skills. Use it for Halloween phonics activities, literacy centers, guided reading, morning work, literacy activities, and more! This game is great for kindergarten, first grade and second grade students.

✨ Get the full version HERE! ✨

✨ Save 30% with the Halloween Roll & Read Bundle! ✨
✨Save 30% with the Halloween Phonics and Math Bundle!✨

What's Included:

• 1 mixed vowel team game
• Directions page
• Color & black and white options

How to play:

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

More Halloween Roll & Reads:

CVC, Blends & Digraphs

CVCe Long Vowels

Long Vowel Teams

Hard and Soft C & G

R-Controlled Vowels

More Halloween Resources:

Gift Tags

Word Problems

Halloween Roll & Race Resources:

Addition & Subtraction Within 10

Addition & Subtraction Within 20

Addition & Subtraction Bundle

After Fall Break Resources:

Spin & Chat Icebreaker Game

After Fall Break Reflections

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

This roll and read phonics worksheet help students improve decoding and fluency skills. These short a sentences are perfect for literacy centers, morning work, small groups, homework, sub plans and more! Preschool, kindergarten, first grade and second grade students will practice their fluency and beginning reading skills by rolling a dice and then reading the matching sentence.

✨ Get the full version HERE! ✨

✨ Save 30% with the Roll & Read CVC Words & Sentences Bundle! ✨

✨ Save 30% with the Roll & Read CVC, Blends & Digraphs Bundle! ✨

What's included:

• 1 short a board
• directions page

How to play:

• Students can play individually or with partners.
• Roll the dot cube. Read the first word in the row. Cover the word with a counter or color in the box. Keep rolling and reading sentences until someone reaches the top of a column first!

More Roll & Read Phonics Words:

Short Vowel CVC

Digraphs

Blends

Long Vowel Teams

Hard & Soft C & G

R Controlled Vowels

More Roll & Read Phonics Sentences:

Short Vowel CVC

Hard and Soft C & G

This Valentine's Day Roll and Read Phonics worksheet for CVCe long vowels freebie will help students improve reading fluency and decoding skills. Use it for Valentine's Day phonics activities, literacy centers, guided reading, morning work, Daily 5, literacy activities and more! This game is great for first grade and second grade students.

⭐Save 25% with the Valentine Roll and Read Phonics Bundle!⭐

What's included (9 total games):

• 1 mixed CVCe game with a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e patterns
• Directions page
• Color & black and white options

How to play:

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

Need more phonics activities? Click the links below!

Valentine Roll and Read - Short Vowel CVC, Blends & Digraphs

Valentine Roll and Read - Long Vowel Teams

Valentine Roll and Read - Hard and Soft C & G

Valentine Roll and Read - R-Controlled Vowels

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

This no-prep Spring Color By Code Short U Worksheet will help your students practice decoding CVC words. Use it for an Easter or Spring phonics activity, literacy center, early finisher activity, morning work, homework, sub plans and more! Your students will love coloring by code with this spring themed phonics worksheet! This worksheet is great for kindergarten, first grade and second grade students.

⭐Save 25% with the Spring Roll & Read Games Bundle!⭐

⭐Save 30% with the Spring Math and Phonics Center Games Bundle!⭐

What's included:

• 1 CVC short u color by code worksheet
• Answer key for easy grading
• Short u word families included: un, up, ut, um, ud, ug, ub

More Phonics Resources:

Roll and Read - Short Vowel CVC

Spring Roll & Read CVC, Blends & Digraphs

Spring Roll & Read Long Vowel Teams

Spring Roll & Read CVCe Long Vowels

Spring Roll & Read R-Controlled Vowels

Spring Roll & Read Hard and Soft C & G

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.