$5 - $10 Pre-K Spelling Activities (by date, oldest first)

This bundle of alphabet mystery puzzles is the perfect literacy center to help students gain confidence with letter recognition and beginning sounds. Featuring 74 alphabet picture puzzles in total, students will love this fun, hands-on, low-prep activity where they put their phonics skills to use to reveal a hidden picture. What’s more, the puzzles are self-checking so students can correct their own work making them perfect for independent literacy centers. Each puzzle set includes several levels of difficulty providing differentiation opportunities to cater for students of all levels.

The literacy skills in focus with this set of alphabet mystery puzzles are:

- Lowercase matching: 14 Mats

- Uppercase matching: 14 Mats

- Lowercase to uppercase matching: 8 Mats

- Uppercase to lowercase matching: 8 Mats

- Beginning Sounds Mats (Uppercase and Lowercase): 15 Mats x 2 = 30 Mats

What are puzzle mats?

Puzzle Mats are just that - a puzzle! Students build a puzzle by placing the matching puzzle piece on top of the matching letter or picture. The goal for this activity is to identify the correct letter or picture match to reveal the mystery puzzle picture.

How are puzzle mats best utilized?

Puzzle mats work are suited for use in a wide range of setting including, but not limited to:

-Word Work Stations

-Morning Work

-Early Finishers

-Enrichment

-Intervention

-Home Connection

-Incentive

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This is a perfect bundle for games, worksheets, and activities for students beginning to learn Spanish! Basic vocabulary is covered including colors, numbers, and the months of the year and days of the week vocabulary. More than 100 pages are included in this bundle!

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

• 100+ unique Bingo boards

• 4 different colors of counters

• 3 sets of Spanish vocabulary call-out cards (that you can use as flashcards, too!)

• A word search

WHO IS IT FOR?

• Spanish Teachers: You'll love this as a resource to practice writing and saying numbers, colors, and months and days vocabulary in Spanish. BINGO is a go-to choice when your class needs some fun!

FEATURES

• Each page is 8.5" x 11", but you can adjust this in your printer settings.

This set contains over 100 unique CVC cards where students can complete hands on word work activities. This set is differentiated for students at all levels of phonics for CVC words. This phonics based CVC center provides an easy to follow literacy center for students to use over several weeks of learning to spell and read CVC words.

Sets Included:

• Adding Beginning Sounds
• Adding Medial Vowels
• Adding Ending sounds
• Adding Beginning and Ending Sounds
• Spelling CVC Words
• Set with the words already complete.

How to Use

• Use the letter tiles provided to cover each spot with the correct sound.
• Write letters on clothes pins and clip the empty squares with the correct sound.
• Use magnetic letters to fill in each square with the correct sound.
• Use wooden or plastic letter tiles to fill in each square with the correct sound.

Be sure to check out these other CVC word resources!

CVC Word Puzzles

CVC Words Self Checking Reading and Blending Cards

CVC Sentences Reading Center

This packet contains 96 different words that represent the different beginning and ending digraphs. Each word will have 3 different cards (one for each set described below) for a total of 288 cards. Each card will have a picture and the word to practice beginning and ending digraphs. This product is great for differentiation with several different sets of cards. Some cards will be missing parts of the words and students will use the letter/sound tiles to fill in the missing sounds or letters in the word.

There are three types of cards in this packet

• The first set has a picture and the word fully spelled out so students can cover the words with the correct letter tiles.
• The second set has a picture and the word spelled out but missing the r-controlled vowels. Students must fill in the correct r-controlled spelling to complete the word.
• The third set has a picture but the word is missing completely. Students will use the letter/sound tiles to completely spell the word.

The Digraphs Represented in this Packet are:

• Beginning Digraphs: CH, KN, PH, QU, SH, TH, WH, WR
• Ending Digraphs: CH, CK, PH, MB, NG, SH, TH

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Blends and Digraph Activities

Practice identifying beginning, medial vowel, and ending sounds with these clip cards. Students will use clothes pins or clips to mark the sound on each clip card. These cards make a great literacy center for students working on this phonics skill. There are two versions of the cards to allow for differentiation. See the preview for examples of each type of card.

Ways to Use

• Literacy Center
• Morning Tubs
• Morning Baskets
• Tasks Boxes
• Fine Motor Center
• Table Top Center

Included in this set:

• Beginning Sound Clip Cards: 128 unique cards. This set only includes beginning sounds with a single consonant.
• Ending Sound Clip Cards: 64 unique cards. This set only includes ending sounds with a single consonant sound.
• Medial Vowel Clip Cards: 56 unique cards. This set contains short and long vowel sounds.

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CVC Centers and Activities Bundle

Letter Recognition Clip Cards for All Four Seasons

Practice sight word recognition with these sight word flip books for Fry's fourth set of 25 sight words (#76-100). These books can be differentiated for multiple student levels. Students will find, spell, write and read the sight word through out the pages of these flip books.

The pages included in this product are:

Page 2: Cover Page

Page 3: Find and Color – Color the sight word as you find it.

Page 4: Trace and Write – Trace the sight word then write the sight word.

Page 5: Spell It – Use various mediums to spell the sight word.

Page 6: Cut and Paste – Use the provided tiles or look for the word in magazines to cut out and glue.

Page 7: Read, Write and Draw – Students will read the sentence, write the sentence and illustrate the sentence.

Page 8: Fluency Reading – Students will read the sentences.

Page 9: Write and Draw – This is a more difficult version of page 7 and can be substituted for students who are ready to make their own sentences.

Page 10: Write and Read – This is a more difficult version of page 8 and can be substituted for students who can write the sight word before reading the sentences.

The following words are available in this bundle:

am, been, called, come, could, day, did, down, find, first, get, its, long, made, may, my, no, now, number, part, people, than, water, way, who

Practice sight word recognition with these low prep activities. There are 6 different word work activities that include sight word reading, sight word spelling and word work mats for tracing or using play dough.

Products included:

Pre Primer Road Mats : These sight word road mats are perfect for using fine motor skills to learn sight words. Student use small cars to drive along the sight word.

Pre Primer Sight Word Puzzles: All the Pre-Primer sight words have a puzzle except a and I. Each letter of the sight words are on their separate piece and students must spell the sight word to complete the puzzles.

Pre Primer Sight Word Spelling Cards : This is a literacy center activity where students use the letter tiles to spell their sight words. Attach velcro to the fronts of the cards and the back of the tiles for a file folder type game.

Pre Primer Sight Word Mats : Use play dough or other manipulatives to cover the letters on each sight word mat.

This packet contains all 40 Pre Primer Sight Words:

a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you

These winter sight word spelling cards make a fun winter literacy center for students to enjoy while practicing spelling sight words from the preprimer through third grade sight word lists, for a total of 220 sight words.

What is Included:

• There is one sight word card for each sight word on this sight word list.
• Letter tiles to use while spelling the words.

Each sight word card features a winter hat with the sight word printed on it. Students will use the boxes to the right of the word to spell the sight word on the hat.

Ways to Use

• Literacy Center
• Small Group Activity

When using these cards inside a literacy center, the letter tiles can be used to spell the words, or teachers can provide letter stamps, letter clips, scrabble tiles or other types of letter manipulates for students to use to spell each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Spelling Sight Words

These seasonal sight word spelling cards make a fun season literacy center for students to enjoy while practicing spelling sight words from the preprimer or kindergarten word list.

What is Included:

• There is one sight word card for each sight word on the preprimer sight word list.
• Letter tiles to use while spelling the words.

Each sight word card features a seasonal image with the sight word printed on it. Students will use the boxes to the right of the word to spell the sight word on the seasonal image.

Ways to Use

• Literacy Center
• Small Group Activity

When using these cards inside a literacy center, the letter tiles can be used to spell the words, or teachers can provide letter stamps, letter clips, scrabble tiles or other types of letter manipulates for students to use to spell each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Spelling Sight Words

The following products are in this bundle:

1. Autumn/Fall Spelling Cards feature the sight words on fall leaves. Print letter tiles in fall colors to use to spell the words.

2. Winter Spelling Cards feature the sight words on snowballs. Print the letter tiles in blue to keep the cold winter theme.

3. Spring Spelling Cards feature the sight words on flowers. Print the letter tiles in spring colors or pastels to have a color spring theme.

4. Summer Spelling Cards feature the sight words on suns. Print the letter tiles in yellow to keep the warm summer theme.

This packet contains all 40 Preprimer Sight Words:

a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you

These winter sight word spelling cards make a fun winter literacy center for students to enjoy while practicing spelling sight words from the Fry 1-300 word list.

What is Included:

• There is one sight word card for each sight word on the Fry 1-300 sight word list.
• Letter tiles to use while spelling the words.

Each sight word card features a winter hat with the sight word printed on it. Students will use the boxes to the right of the word to spell the sight word on the hat.

Ways to Use

• Literacy Center
• Small Group Activity

When using these cards inside a literacy center, the letter tiles can be used to spell the words, or teachers can provide letter stamps, letter clips, scrabble tiles or other types of letter manipulates for students to use to spell each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Spelling Sight Words

Spell all 220 sight words with this hands on turkey themed sight word spelling activity. This makes a great Thanksgiving themed word work center.

What is included:

One turkey for each sight word.

One feather for each letter used in each sight word in varying colors

How to Use:

Students choose a turkey and then place the feathers in the correct order to spell the word they chose.

The Read and Write-Primary Booklet Collection is now available!The Collection includes five of the Kindergarten Read and Write Booklets at a discounted price.

The Think, Write, and Read Booklets are great for those beginner readers and writers. Children will love putting together their own booklet. Each of the booklets cover a different topic. The topics included in this collection are: Verbs, Synonyms, Farm Animals, Jobs, and Pets. After each booklet is constructed, it is a great tool for those little readers. They can practice reading it over and over again. They will also enjoy coloring their booklets! Ideal for Pre-K and K, however 1st grade can benefit from this set also.

Check out the products that are included in The Primary Collection:

-Verb Kindergarten Writing Booklet

-Kindergarten Writing-Different Pets Booklet

- Farm Animal Kindergarten Writing Booklet

-Kindergarten Writing-Community Jobs Booklet

-Kindergarten Writing-Synonyms Booklet

All printables are in black and white. Construct booklets and keep them in a large ziplock bag for nightly reading practice.

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Are you looking for a way for students to practice their letters, and numbers, beginning sounds, or CVC words? Then Feed the Gingerbread can help. This activity is great to use across skill areas. Students feed the Gingerbread and then mark the letters, numbers, or sounds on the mat (unifix or stacking manipulatives work great for marking since cards can appear more than once). For additional practice have students record the Gingerbread's gumdrop on the recording sheet.

This resource is great for centers, independent activities, or early finishers.

Included in This Activity:

⭐ Gingerbread mats with letters, numbers, or sounds.

⭐26 uppercase, lowercase, and both upper and lowercase letters.

⭐Numbers 1-5, and 1-10

⭐Picture cards for beginning sounds. (multiple choices for each letter)

⭐CVC Words either in picture, word, or self-checking picture

Other Resources:

⭐ Gingerbread Pan and Cookie Shape Match

⭐ Gingerbread Pan and Cookie Shape Sort Mats

⭐ Gingerbread Pan and Cookie Shape Sort Practice Sheets

⭐ Flip, Build, Write| Letters,Numbers,Beginning Sounds,& CVC Words| Gingerbread

⭐ Counting to 30| Gingerbread Houses

Are you looking for a way for students to practice their letters, numbers, beginning sounds, or CVC words? Then Snowman's Flip, Build, Write can help. With letters, numbers, beginning sounds and now newly added CVC word cards, these resources can be differentiated to meet the needs of the varying levels in your class. Just print, cut, and use.

Included in This Activity:

**⭐**3 mats

⭐26 upper and lower case letters

⭐Numbers 1-30

⭐beginning sound picture cards, with multiple for each letter.

⭐CVC word cards

Other Resources:

Are you looking for a way for students to practice their letters, numbers, beginning sounds, or cvc words? Then Snowman's Flip, Build, Write can help. With letters, numbers, beginning sounds and now newly added CVC word cards, these resources can be differentiated to meet the needs of the varying levels in your class. Just print, cut, and use.

Included in This Activity:

**⭐**2 Snowmen mats

⭐26 upper and lower case letters

⭐Numbers 1-30

⭐beginning sound picture cards, with multiple for each letter.

⭐CVC word cards

Other Resources:

Are you looking for a way for students to practice their letters, and numbers, beginning sounds, or CVC words? Then Feed the Snow Person can help. This activity is great to use across skill areas. Students feed either the snowboy or snowgirl and then mark the letters, numbers or sounds on the mat (unifix or stacking manipulatives work great for marking since cards can appear more than once). For additional practice have students record their answers on the Snowperson recording sheet.

This resource is great for centers, independent activities, or early finishers.

Included in This Activity:

⭐ Snowgirl and Snowboy mats with letters, numbers, sounds, and words.

⭐26 uppercase, lowercase, and both upper and lowercase letters.

⭐Numbers 1-5, and 1-10

⭐Picture cards for beginning sounds. (multiple choices for each letter)

⭐CVC Words either in picture, word, or self-checking picture

⭐snowball shaped printable manipulatives to build numbers, letters, or words. Just print and cut what you need.

Other Resources:

Are you looking for a way for students to practice their letters, numbers, beginning sounds, or cvc words? Then Gingerbread's Flip, Build, Write can help. With letters, numbers, beginning sounds and now newly added CVC word cards, these resources can be differentiated to meet the needs of the varying levels in your class. Just print, cut, and use.

Included in This Activity:

**⭐**3 Gingerbread mats

⭐26 upper and lower case letters

⭐Numbers 1-30

⭐beginning sound picture cards, with multiple for each letter.

⭐CVC word cards

Other Resources:

⭐ Gingerbread House Shape Match

⭐ Gingerbread Man Shape Match

⭐ Feed a Gingerbread| Letters, Numbers, Beginning Sounds, or CVC Words

⭐ Counting to 30| Gingerbread Houses

⭐ Counting to 30| Gingerbread Man

Are you looking for a way for students to practice their letters, and numbers, or identify beginning sounds? Then Feed the Christmas Tree can help. This activity is great to use across skill areas. Students feed the Christmas Tree and then mark the letters, numbers, or sounds on the mat (unifix or stacking manipulatives work great for marking since cards can appear more than once). For additional practice have students record the Christmas Tree's presents on the recording sheet.

This resource is great for centers, independent activities, or early finishers.

Included in This Activity:

⭐ Wheel barrel and basket mats with letters, numbers, or sounds.

⭐26 uppercase, lowercase, and both upper and lowercase letters.

⭐Numbers 1-5, and 1-10

⭐Picture cards for beginning sounds. (multiple choices for each letter)

Other Resources:

⭐ Rudolph| Reindeer| Shape Match

⭐ Christmas Mystery Pictures| CVC Pictures and Words Bundle

⭐ Santa Shape Match

⭐ Presents Shape Match

Are you looking for a way for students to practice their letters, and numbers, or identify beginning sounds? Then Feed a Santa can help. This activity is great to use across skill areas. Students feed Santa and then mark the letters, numbers, or sounds on the mat (unifix or stacking manipulatives work great for marking since cards can appear more than once). For additional practice have students record the Santa Cookies on the recording sheet.

This resource is great for centers, independent activities, or early finishers.

Included in This Activity:

⭐ Wheel barrel and basket mats with letters, numbers, or sounds.

⭐26 uppercase, lowercase, and both upper and lowercase letters.

⭐Numbers 1-5, and 1-10

⭐Picture cards for beginning sounds. (multiple choices for each letter)

Other Resources:

⭐ Rudolph| Reindeer| Shape Match

⭐ Christmas Mystery Pictures| CVC Pictures and Words Bundle

⭐ Santa Shape Match

Are you looking for a way for students to practice their letters, and numbers, or identify beginning sounds? Then Feed a Rudolph can help. This activity is great to use across skill areas. Students feed Rudolph and then mark the letters, numbers, or sounds on the mat (unifix or stacking manipulatives work great for marking since cards can appear more than once). For additional practice have students record the Ruldolph feed on the recording sheet.

This resource is great for centers, independent activities, or early finishers.

Included in This Activity:

⭐ Wheel barrel and basket mats with letters,numbers, or sounds.

⭐26 uppercase, lowercase, and both upper and lowercase letters.

⭐Numbers 1-5, and 1-10

⭐Picture cards for beginning sounds. (multiple choices for each letter)

Other Resources:

⭐ Rudolph| Reindeer| Shape Match

⭐ Christmas Mystery Pictures| CVC Pictures and Words Bundle