Kindergarten Phonics Centers

Early readers need to read text that is decodable! If your child is working on reading CVC words and high-frequency words these passages are perfect! When they read a decodable reader it gives them confidence in reading stories and it helps them practice the phonics skill they are working on! These decodable passages have two options. One is scaffolded so that they can practice reading the words in isolation that they will see in the text. Tip-you can highlight the CVC words and high-frequency words they read in isolation in the text.

Included:

10 vowel-specific passages

8 Mixed vowel passages

Comprehension for all stories

Scaffolded Passage and Regular Passage

To get a pattern to STICK in a new readers brain we need to read AND spell with a word and provide context. These self-correcting picture cards are perfect to achieve that goal!

Within this product your child will be exposed to beginning and end blends with short vowels. You can have the child read the card and flip it over to see if the picture matches the word or you can use the spelling mats to have the child look at the picture, say the word, and spell the word. When they are done they can flip the card over to check their spelling.

This Letter Puzzle is an engaging letter game designed to develop first-sound fluency and letter-sound recognition in young learners. Each puzzle presents a colorful illustration of an animal, object, or character, accompanied by a selection of black and white pictures representing the sounds heard at the beginning of the word. The objective is simple: match the correct picture to the corresponding sound of the letter.

As children explore the puzzles, they're not only honing their ability to identify initial sounds but also reinforcing their understanding of letter-sound correspondence. With a range of vibrant and appealing visuals, the game offers an immersive learning experience that captures children's attention and motivates them to participate actively.

Why You Will Want to Use This Letter Puzzle:

1. Foundational Literacy Skills: The Letter Puzzle provides an interactive platform for children to develop essential literacy skills from an early age. By focusing on first sound fluency and letter sound recognition, it lays a solid foundation for future reading and writing success.
2. Engaging and Interactive Learning: Unlike traditional flashcards or worksheets, The Letter Puzzle transforms letter practice into an exciting adventure. Children are drawn into the game's world of colorful illustrations and playful challenges, making learning feel like play.
3. Positive Reinforcement: Every correct match in the Letter Puzzle is met with immediate feedback and encouragement, fostering a sense of accomplishment and boosting children's confidence in their letter-sound skills.
4. Great for Centers: Playing with the Letter Puzzle can be a great way to work on the alphabet and keep them engaged. No more wondering and coming to interrupt small groups!

In conclusion, the Letter Puzzle offers a delightful way for children to practice first sound fluency and letter sound recognition, paving the way for successful literacy development. With its engaging gameplay and educational benefits, parents can feel confident in using this puzzle game to support their early literacy journey.

Reading and letters can be FUN! These games are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! I give different tips and tricks to work on each skill! I would use these as a Friday fun day during small-groups and my students loved them! These games don't have any prep! Print and play! I would suggest laminating or sticking in a sheet protector to keep them nice for a longer period of time!

Includes:

All 26 letters of the alphabet

Letter names and sounds

Reading words with word families

Reading words with short vowels (a, e, i, o, u)

Reading 1-25 Zeno High-Frequency Words

Roll and Read

Board Games

Bingo

These are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! Slide them in sheet protectors or laminate and you can reuse them! You can print these cards double-sided (on the short side) so that students can self-correct!

This creates meaning for words that follow the phonics pattern they are learning. This is important in helping the child turn these words into sight words!

These are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! Slide them in sheet protectors or laminate and you can reuse them! You can print these cards double-sided (on the short side) so that students can self-correct!

This creates meaning for words that follow the phonics pattern they are learning. This is important in helping the child turn these words into sight words!

Handwriting improves a student's ability to recall information, make connections between different concepts, and synthesize information in new ways!

My handwriting book includes:

• Mnemonic keywords and pictures (this will help with memory of letter name and sound as they practice the writing of the letter)
• Letter formation sayings and pictures for where to start and end your letters
• Sentence Practice
• Binding edge so that you can place it in folders with sheet protectors to use with dry erase markers, staple or coil bind together to use fun pens, glitter crayons, colored pencils, markers, etc!

When a student can produce the letters correctly and quickly, they will use less brain power when writing words and sentences!

It is important for a child to understand what a syllable IS and how to break words apart into syllables! When children begin to read and write multisyllabic words it will be vital they understand how to break the word into their syllables! This is a great hands-on and engaging way to work on syllables! Pick a manipulative that your child wants to use and get to work! Use them in centers or during small group!

There is no prep needed! Print and get to work! The alphabet needs to be automatic for our little learners to learn to read! They need to know its name, sound, and formation, and that these letters are represented in words in stories! These letter practice pages are great to meet the needs listed above! My mnemonic device at the top will give the child a great way to remember their letters!

Let's be honest, phonemic awareness can be SO boring for our students! Whenever we are working on it they want to use the words in sentences or want to see a picture of what that word means! Now they have a picture to connect to the word!

These cards are so much fun my students beg me to work with them! I let them choose their manipulative; whether it is play-dough to tap, legos, chips, or blocks! This also gives those kiddos struggling with blending and segmenting a concrete method to gain those skills!

The cards are broken into each vowel sound so that you can easily practice phonemic awareness with the vowel you are working on. You can also mix them up so they can practice the skill for each vowel!

-Includes

-a,e,i,o,u

-CVC words with a picture

-Sound boxes on the front

-The word and amount of sounds on the back for self-correction!

Let's be honest, phonemic awareness can be SO boring for our students! Whenever we are working on it they want to use the words in sentences or want to see a picture of what that word means! Now they have a picture to connect to the word!

These cards are so much fun my students beg me to work with them! I let them choose their manipulative; whether it is play-dough to tap, legos, chips, or blocks! This also gives those kiddos struggling with blending and segmenting a concrete method to gain those skills!

The cards are broken into each vowel so that you can easily practice phonemic awareness with the vowel you are working on. You can also mix them up so they can practice the skill for each vowel!

-Includes

-vowels; a,e,i,o,u

-VCe words with a picture

-Sound boxes on the front

-The word and amount of sounds on the back for self-correction!

Why not work on letters while coloring? My students love a color-by-code! 

Ways to use this resource:

• Name the letters as you color
• Identify name and sound of letters as you color
• Name letters before you color
• Identify name and sound of letters before you color

These games are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! I give different tips and tricks to work on the skill! I would use these as a Friday fun day during small groups and my students loved them! These games don't have any prep! Print and play! I would suggest laminating or sticking in a sheet protector to keep them nice for a longer period of time! You can also use the bingo games as fun review as a whole class

Includes:

Roll and Read

Board Games

Bingo

CVC:

Reading words with word families

Reading words with short vowels (a, e, i, o, u) in isolation and mixed

Beginning Blends:

bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl

br, cr, dr, gr, fr, pr, tr

sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, str, sw

End Blends:

nd, sk, st, ft, sp, nt, nk, lt, ct, lt

*All vowels are short vowels

Digraphs:

sh

th

wh

ch

ck

*All vowels are short vowels

*Some of the words also include blends

These are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! Slide them in sheet protectors or laminate and you can reuse them! You can print these cards double-sided (on the short side) so that students can self-correct!

This creates meaning for words that follow the phonics pattern they are learning. This is important in helping the child turn these words into sight words!

CVC Cards in 7 different styles for differentiated learning. Let these cards grow with your students! 85 words covering short a, e, i, o, and u. Each word comes in 7 different styles including phonics dots and arrows, phonics dots, word only, and picture only. Almost 600 cards included! Laminate the picture only cards and have students create the CVC word with dry erase markers or letter manipulatives.

Cards are four to a page so that they're large enough to put up on the wall but still small enough for students to use easily. These are low prep...just print, cut and laminate. Please check out the preview above to see examples of the different card styles!

Words Included:

Short a - bag, bat, can, cap, cat, fan, ham, hat, jam, mad, map, nap, pad, pan, rag, tag, van

Short e - bed, beg, den, gem, hen, jet, leg, men, net, pen, pet, red, ten, vet, web, wed, wet

Short i - bib, bin, dig, dip, fin, hid, kid, lid, lip, pig, pin, pit, rib, rip, sit, wig, win

Short o - box, cob, cog, dog, fox, hop, hot, jog, log, mop, pod, pop, pot, rod, rot, sob, top

Short u - bud, bug, bun, cub, cup, cut, gum, gun, hug, hut, mud, nut, pup, rug, sub, sun, tub

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Check out my other CVC activites:

*all of my CVC activities use the same words and images for cohesive learning*

CVC Words Rearrange Puzzles

CVC Memory Game

Seasons Color by CVC Word

Snow White Color by CVC Word

CVC Vocabulary Cards

Sports Color by CVC Word

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Have some fun with your phonics this fall! This set is provided in both b/w & color. Prepare the color activities so you can use again and again! Students will interact with the materials to practice identification of initial, medial, and final sounds. In addition, differentiated pages are provided to work on identification of all sounds within a CVC word.

Initial Sounds: Use the apple orchard mat when working on initial sounds. 26 apple cards are included. Students will pick up the card, say the word, and identify the initial sound. All consonants and short vowels are represented:

Items: apple, bear, cupcake, donut, egg, fire, gourd, hat, inch, jack-o-lantern, king, leaf, moon, note, otter, pie, queen, rainbow, scarecrow, tent, umbrella, vote, wagon, x-ray, yellow, zip

Medial Sounds: Students will use interactive materials to practice understanding medial sounds. This activity focuses on short vowel sounds w/ 6 examples for each short vowel.

Final Sounds: Students will use interactive materials to practice understanding final sounds. A variety of leaf cards containing one syllable words are provided.

Items: cob, sock, mud, wolf, rug, jam, ball, gum, mop, cot, rod, cut, bin, mix, flag, map, seed, bear, tree, leaf, mug, barn, goat, pig

CVC Words: Use the fall mat and cards to say, segment, and spell out CVC words.

Items: cap, dad, wax, wag, fan, can, net, web, gem, vet, ten, bed, mix, kit, pig, lip, bin, zip, mom, pot, fox, cob, box, hop, gum, sub, cut, sun, bug, run

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Medial Short Vowel direct instruction, stations, and Boom cards!

Students will use a variety of activities to reinforce understanding of medial short vowel sounds. When teaching medial sounds I use a roller coaster arm motion providing emphasis of the medial sound at the top of the coaster. To reinforce this, I have made a visual students can use.

Direct Instruction Activity -

• Use the roller coaster and cars to segment words provided on the picture cards. Students will drive the coaster cars, identify the medial sound at the top of the coaster.
• This activity can be done over multiple days - you can focus on one vowel at a time (bring in mirrors so students can see the placement of their tongue when annunciating the short vowel sounds). You can also mix up all 5 short vowel sounds to determine if students are able to identify their sounds.
• Pictures provided have a short vowel focus, with a bonus 20 long vowel pictures.

Stations - Laminate the materials for extended use.

• Clip Cards (30 cards) - use expo markers or clothing pin to select the correct medial sound.
• Sorting (30 pictures) - Sort the pictures to the correct short sound
• 30 cards with pictures and beginning / ending sounds. Students will fill in the medial sound

Short Vowel Tab book - For extra practice, or direct instruction complete a tab book with your students. I have included a different set of pictures.

• B/W and color tab book

Boom cards - 10 sets of cards in all (one location)

Set one: Students select the correct word from a choice of 3 matching the picture.

Set two: Students will select the correct picture for the word that is provided.

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Spring Short Vowel CVC - Word Blending, Segmenting & Building

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CVC Words Pocket Chart SUPER Packet!

This GIANT CVC Words Pocket Chart SUPER Packet is packed with over 384 cards total!! CVC (short A, E, I, O, and U). They are available in both color and black & white options.

SHORT "A" CVC Words Pocket Chart: (12 images total! 6 color and 6 B+W) and 2 headings (color and B+W).

**Each word family set includes both color and black + white options**

-AB Words:

Lab

Cab

Dab

Gab

Tab

Nab

-AD Words:

Mad

Sad

Dad

Pad

Lad

Bad

-AG Words:

Bag

Wag

Tag

Rag

Gag

Nag

-AM Words:

Ham

Jam

Yam

Ram

Dam

Mam

-AN Words:

Can

Man

Fan

Van

Tan

Pan

-AP Words:

Cap

Nap

Tap

Gap

Map

Sap

-AT Words:

Mat

Cat

Rat

Fat

Hat

Bat

-AX Words:

Wax

Sax

Tax

Max

Axe

Lax

-AR Words:

Car

Far

Jar

Bar

Tar

Star

SHORT "E" CVC Words Pocket Chart: (12 images total! 6 color and 6 B+W) and 2 headings (color and B+W).

**Each word family set includes both color and black + white options**

-ED Words:

Fed

Wed

Bed

Red

Ted

Led

-EG Words:

Leg

Beg

Keg

Peg

Meg

Egg

-EN Words:

Den

Hen

Men

Ten

Pen

Zen

-ET Words:

Jet

Net

Vet

Get

Met

Bet

SHORT "I" CVC Words Pocket Chart: (12 images total! 6 color and 6 B+W) and 2 headings (color and B+W).

**Each word family set includes both color and black + white options**

-IT Words:

Zit

Pit

Sit

Hit

Bit

Kit

-IP Words:

Rip

Tip

Sip

Lip

Dip

Zip

-IB Words:

Jib

Rib

Nib

Bib

Crib

Fib

-ID Words:

Kid

Lid

Slide

Rid

Hid

Bid

-IG Words:

Dig

Big

Fig

Pig

Wig

Rig (truck)

-IN Words:

Bin

Fin

Tin

Pin

Win

Twin

-IX Words:

Mix

Six

Fix

Pix

Nix

Kix

-IM Words:

Dim

Him

Rim

Tim

Kim

Jim

SHORT "O" CVC Words Pocket Chart: (12 images total! 6 color and 6 B+W) and 2 headings (color and B+W).

**Each word family set includes both color and black + white options**

-OB Words:

Rob

Mob

Cob

Job

Sob

Bob

-OG Words:

Dog

Log

Fog

Hog

Jog

Cog

-OT Words:

Cot

Dot

Hot

Pot

Lot

Tot

-OP Words:

Mop

Cop (girl)

Hop

Pop

Top (spinning)

Top (mountain)

-OD Words:

Rod

Nod

Sod

Cod

Pod

Tod

SHORT "U" CVC Words Pocket Chart: (12 images total! 6 color and 6 B+W) and 2 headings (color and B+W).

**Each word family set includes both color and black + white options**

-UB Words:

Cub

Rub

Sub (submarine)

Sub (sandwich)

Tub

Nub

-UD Words:

Bud (flower)

Bud (friend)

Mud

Sud

Stud

Loud

-UG Words:

Bug

Hug

Dug

Jug

Rug

Pug

-UM Words:

Gum

Yum

Mum

Sum

Hum

Plum

-UN Words:

Sun

Fun

Run

Nun

Bun (hair)

Bun (burger)

-UT Words:

Nut

Shut

Cut

Hut

Gut

Jut

You might also be interested in these other resources:

• Sequence of events headings
• Sequence of events worksheets
• Opinion Writing Worksheets
• 384 CVC Words Pocket Chart SUPER Packet
• Compare and Contrast worksheets, Picture Cards and Poster
• CVC Middle Sound Words Pocket Chart
• 57 Story Starters Picture Writing Prompts
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This GIANT Beginning Blends Pocket Chart SUPER Packet is packed with over 240 cards total!!

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**Each blend set includes both color and black + white options** Please download the preview for more details.

S Blends includes the following blends:

Sc, Sk, Sm, Sn, Sp, St, Sw, and Sl

R Blends includes the following blends:

Tr, Br, Fr, Gr, Cr, Dr, and Pr

L Blends includes the following blends:

Bl, Fl, Gl, Pl, and Cl

W Blends includes the following blends:

Dw and Tw Words

You might also be interested in these other resources:

• Sequence of events headings
• Sequence of events worksheets
• Opinion Writing Worksheets
• 384 CVC Words Pocket Chart SUPER Packet
• Compare and Contrast worksheets, Picture Cards and Poster
• CVC Middle Sound Words Pocket Chart
• 57 Story Starters Picture Writing Prompts

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This engaging cvc middle sound words pocket chart is easy read and prep.

What is included:

• There are 66 cards.
• Print 6 cards per sheet (in color).

CVC Middle Sound Words:

• Medial a: cat, car, dam, ham, wag, pan
• Medial e: net, wet, bed, pen, den, hen
• Medial i: pig, fin, pit, dig, lid, hit
• Medial o: fox, hop, top, dog, log, mop
• Medial u: cub, gum, bun, hut, mud, sun

You might also be interested in these other resources:

• Opinion writing
• Sequence of events headings
• Sequence of events worksheets
• 57 Story Starters Picture Writing Prompts
• 384 CVC Words Pocket Chart SUPER Packet
• Compare and Contrast worksheets, Picture Cards and Poster

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