Phonics Centers (by date, latest first)

Bake up some fun in your reading centers and small groups this year with these Back-to-School Alphabet Stations. Students can practice their letter identification skills and letter sound fluency in a fun an interactive way!

Featuring 59 pages of cookie fun, choose between color or black and white versions of each activity.

Students will match the image on the cookie or the baking sheet to the correct letters.

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Keywords:  back to school, alphabet, letter sound, letter identification, letter id, beginning of year, august, september, kindergarten, prek, reading centers, reading groups, small groups, intervention

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

Questions? 

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Keywords: back to school alphabet, letter sound, letter identification, letter id, beginning of year, august, september, kindergarten, prek, reading centers, reading groups, small groups, intervention

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

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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

These zoo themed letter and number flashcards and puzzles are a great animal activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters
• 3 piece pizza number puzzles for 1-20

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter Z. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with Z and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter Y. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with Y and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter V. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with V and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter W. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with W and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

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

short vowels

Kindergarten phonics

first grade phonics

literacy center

phonics worksheets

cut and paste

word search

spelling practice

reading practice

These pizza themed letter and number flashcards and puzzles are a great summer activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters
• 3 piece pizza number puzzles for 1-10

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

With a wide variety of uses, these cards will allow students to be engaged with learning their letters and numbers, as well as learning number words and practice counting.

How to Use the Puzzles

• Task Box Activities
• Math Centers
• Morning Baskets or Tubs

All of the cards and puzzles in this resource can be stored in task boxes. This allows teachers to have an easy to set up activity that students can easily clean and put away themselves.

Skills Assessed:

• Number Recognition
• Number Words to 20
• Number Order
• Letter Recognition
• Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
• Letter Order

Each part of this resource is low prep. They all just need to be printed out and cut apart before use. The teacher may choose to laminate the pieces for durability.

These pirate themed letter and number flashcards and puzzles are a great summer activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

This zoo themed alphabet color by code packet is sure to excite your preschoolers and kindergartners with this fun way to practice learning the letters of the alphabet. These letter recognition alphabet worksheets are differentiated and versatile!

What is Included:

• 11 color by letter for capital letters
• 11 color by letters for lowercase letters.
• Answer Keys

The color by letter pages are differentiated in that they included a variety of easy to color pictures with fewer spaces and letters to those with many more spaces and letters. The easiest color by letter worksheets include 5 letters and the more difficult sheets include 8 letters.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter U. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with U and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

There are two ways to use this product:

• Simple print this paper, allow the students to color, cut out and glue into a flower on colored construction paper.
• Print the flower pattern onto colored card stock, cut and laminate. These flowers can be used in center activities.

Need a fun hands on way to practice reading and recognizing AN words? These sorting activities provide a great way to practice these word family in an engaging literacy center.

There are three different sorting activities to practice learning to read and recognize AN family words.

Sorts Include

• Sort words that are part of the AN family from words that are not part of the AN family.
• Sort pictures that are part of the AN family from pictures that are not part of the AN family.
• Sort between real and nonsense AN words.

These low prep sorting activities are easy to create. Simply print the pages, cut out the sorting cards and laminate if desired. By laminating this literacy activity can be used over and over if laminated.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter T. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with T and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

There are two ways to use this product:

• Simple print this paper, allow the students to color, cut out and glue into a flower on colored construction paper.
• Print the flower pattern onto colored card stock, cut and laminate. These flowers can be used in center activities.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter S. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with S and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

This preschool summer unit will give preschoolers a fun and engaging way to learn about crabs, as well as to learn about the letter C. These crab preschool lesson plans contain a variety of activities that cover the alphabet, beginning sounds, preschool math skills, art, and so much more!

What is Included:

• There is a lesson overview that lists the activities with the subject or skill area the activity falls in.
• Art and Crafts Activities: There are instructions for crab crafts as well as a dot painting page for C is for crab.
• Math Activities: Students will count to 10, recognize shapes, and order by size.
• Language Activities: The activities in this section include sorting capital and lowercase letter Cs, finding the letter C dot mats, beginning sound sort, rhyming, and a crab writing journal page.
• Handwriting Activities: There are tracing lines and shapes activities as well as worksheets for practicing the correct letter formation of both the capital and lowercase letter C.
• Fine Motor Activities: This section includes playdough and counting cube activities. There is also an activity for completing a shape with symmetry.
• Games and Indoor Recess Ideas: There are some fun games for students to play indoors. Students are also able to play a pocket chart game that practices letter recognition.
• Science Activities: Students will learn about the life cycle of a crab, label a crab, and learn about the types of crabs.
• Social Emotional: Students will explore emotions with crabs.
• Snacks and Cooking Ideas: This section includes snack ideas associated with crabs.
• Songs and Chants: This section includes some songs and chants for learning the letter C and about crabs!
• Sensory Bin Activities: This section has sensory bin ideas for students to explore with a crab theme.
• Dramatic Play: This section includes ideas on how to set up your dramatic play area as a beach.
• Circle Time Posters: This section includes posters to use during circle time that focus on the letter counting, relevant colors, and shapes.
• The final two pages are suggestions for more activities if you need more on a particular skill or subject.

This crab themed preschool unit is designed to be used during a summer beach themed week where students are also learning about the letter C. By connecting a letter to the theme, students will have a meaningful way to remember the letter they are learning. The activities can be stretched to use over 2 weeks if needed, as many of the activities are reusable.

There is a mixture of no prep and low prep activities on a variety of skills and subjects. This allows teachers to be flexible and use only the activities that the teacher desires to complete. The activities in this packet can be completed in any order.

These monster themed letter and number flashcards and puzzles are a great activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

With a wide variety of uses, these cards will allow students to be engaged with learning their letters and numbers, as well as learning number words and practice counting.

These insect themed letter and number flashcards and puzzles are a great activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters
• 3 piece number puzzles to match numbers, number words, and objects

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

With a wide variety of uses, these cards will allow students to be engaged with learning their letters and numbers, as well as learning number words and practice counting.

How to Use the Puzzles

• Task Box Activities
• Math Centers
• Morning Baskets or Tubs

All of the cards and puzzles in this resource can be stored in task boxes. This allows teachers to have an easy to set up activity that students can easily clean and put away themselves.

Skills Assessed:

• Number Recognition
• Number Words to 20
• Number Order
• Letter Recognition
• Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
• Letter Order

Each part of this resource is low prep. They all just need to be printed out and cut apart before use. The teacher may choose to laminate the pieces for durability.

Summer Fun Clip Cards, Silly Suns Nonsense Word Sort, Write the Room, Unscrambling and Sandcastle Sound Sort are all included in this fun Summer themed phonics station set!

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 end of year center for your reading block is right here!

Questions? 

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Keywords: CVC words, centers, Summer, Summer school, end of year, May, June, July, August, Kindergarten, First grade, reading centers, reading stations, ELAR, phonics, consonant vowel consonant, sight words, beach