Kindergarten Phonics Centers

Spring short vowel mini set - Included is one of each of the activities featuring short a.

Students will write and wipe or use manipulative letters. Students will build letters using flower petals, tap out sounds with Mr. Frog, and slowly talk with Mr. Turtle. Turtle and Frog are ready to be printed and attached to popsicle sticks for hopping / walking along each word. Use them again and again in your small groups or centers.

Turtle Talk

Materials - Picture cards, turtle

Directions - 

We will be talking very slowly like a turtle!  We call this turtle talk.  Look at the picture.  What is it?  Say the word slowly.  Tap out every sound you hear.  Write the letters on the card.  Use your turtle to walk and turtle talk the word you made!   

Flower Building

Use the letters on each flower to build words. Each set has 3 pages to provide appropriate support for your students. You will have one blank page, one with the medial sound written, and one with word families.

Hop along with MR. Frog then find a matching picture

I hope you like my sample set featuring short vowel a. I have an extended packet available for purchase that includes all short vowel sounds, and manipulative letters for a total of 88 words in each set.

Spring Short Vowel CVC - Word Blending, Segmenting & Building

Use this letter a poem pocket chart station and worksheet to focus on the short vowel sound /a/ for your letter of the week or letter of the day reading centers & improve your preschool or kindergarten students' letter and sound recognition.

Full page poem - great for whole group introduction & use at the pocket chart center

• Read the poem to students and have them identify the words the begin with the /a/ sound
• Read the poem to students and have them identify the words the rhyme
• Have students circle or highlight the letter a

Individual poems with 3 pictures - great for alphabet notebooks or letter of the day/week

• Have students color, cut, and glue the poem and pictures onto construction paper
• Have students circle or highlight the letter a
• Have students complete as an accountability worksheet for the pocket chart center

Pocket chart words & 3 pictures - great for interactive centers and stations

• Have students build the poem on a pocket chart or carpet
• Have students find the letter a (use highlighter strips, or cut transparent binder dividers)
• Have students sort the words by beginning letter or number of letters

These poem activities are great for...

• Interactive alphabet notebooks
• Letter of the day or letter of the week
• Reviewing or introducing letter sounds & beginning sounds
• Small group activities or literacy centers
• Fine motor development (gluing, coloring, and cutting skills)
• Recognizing rhyming words
• Learning print concepts by following & matching print from left to right, top to bottom

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Short Vowel Preview has six activities to help students practice words with the short a sound in a CVC pattern.

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This freebie includes syllable word charts for multisyllable words.

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2 Syllable Words - 2 charts

3 Syllable Words - 2 charts

4 Syllable Words - 1 chart

5 Syllable Words - 1 chart

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Students will love learning their A-Z with this resource. Each page features a new letter with two visual prompt examples. Each page includes six writing lines so students can write down 6 words that start with that letter.

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These reading and writing activity cards are perfect for beginning readers! Children get to blend words, color the matching picture and practice writing the words. These cards can be used in centers or for one to one support. This freebie includes 14 cvc words. For more cards check out my full bundle in my store!

PRESCHOOL and KINDERGARTEN students will quickly learn beginning sounds, upper and lowercase, letter strokes, and handwriting while improving fine motor skills. Save on precious prep time! Use for Centers, lesson plans, morning work, and take-home practice. Any substitute teacher would love having these at their fingertips!

Activities Worksheets included:

• Decorate the Letter
• Letter coloring page
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• Prewriting page
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• Recognize uppercase and lowercase

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• Improve eye-hand coordination

• Introduce writing and reading

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VC words are simple, two-letter words made up of a vowel followed by a consonant, such as "at," "in," or "up." These words are beneficial for early readers because they introduce basic phonics skills, helping students recognize and blend vowel and consonant sounds. Mastering VC words builds a strong foundation for decoding more complex words, improves reading fluency, and boosts confidence in early literacy development.

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⚡ This Alphabet Letter Recognition Matching Circles activity is a simple yet effective tool designed to help young learners practice letter recognition through an interactive and engaging game. Ideal for classrooms, homeschooling, or at-home learning, this black-and-white set encourages students to match uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and pictures. It’s a fantastic resource for building alphabet knowledge, phonics skills, and early literacy.

✅ What’s Included:

• 3 Circles for Each Letter of the Alphabet (A-Z): Each set includes an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, and a corresponding picture.
• Two Picture Options: Choose between a picture alone or a picture with the word missing the first letter, allowing for different difficulty levels.
• Black & White Design: Perfect for easy printing and customizing, students can color the circles after completing the activity for added creativity.

⚡ Target Vocabulary: apple, bird, cat, dog, egg, fig, goat, hat, ink, jam, kite, lion, mum, nurse, orange, pen, queen, rabbit, sofa, teddy, umbrella, van, window, fox, yo-yo, zebra, duck, banana, elephant, fish, house, insect, monkey, octopus, tree, violin, X-ray, yoghurt.

✅ How It Works:

• Letter Matching: Students need to find the matching uppercase letter, lowercase letter, and picture circle for each letter of the alphabet. This helps reinforce letter recognition and phonics skills.
• Picture-Based Learning: The picture circles add context, helping students associate letters with words and images. For extra challenge, use the picture with the missing first letter for students to practice identifying letter sounds and completing the word.

✅ Key Benefits:

• Hands-On Learning: Engages students in matching uppercase, lowercase, and picture circles.
• Boosts Letter Recognition: Reinforces both letter identification and phonics skills.
• Customizable Difficulty: Offers picture-only or word-based options for flexible learning.
• Simple & Print-Friendly: Black-and-white design for easy, budget-friendly printing.

✅ Why Choose This Set?

With its straightforward design and flexibility, this black-and-white alphabet matching set is an excellent resource for helping young learners develop letter recognition, phonics, and early reading skills. The game’s simple setup and customizable difficulty make it perfect for both home and classroom use!

This is a set of festive brightly colored Christmas presents for alphabet matching. The half of the gift with the upper case letter is matched to the other half of the gift with the lower case letter. These matching cards are perfect for holiday centers or independent work!

The Set Includes....

• 26 2-Part Matching Cards
• 1 Title Card
• 1 Directions Card

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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*

This Roll and Read worksheet includes first grade Dolch sight words. This high-frequency sight word game is perfect for reading centers, tutorials, small groups, homeschooling, homework, sub plans and more! Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students will practice their sight words by rolling a physical or digital dice using the provided qr code, and then reading the matching sight word.

✨Dolch Roll & Read Sight Words and Fluency Sentences Bundle✨

10 First Grade Sight Word Roll & Read Boards

✨growing 1st grade bundle!✨

What's Included

• 1 Roll and Read Board PDF with first grade dolch sight words

Directions

Rolling the Die:

• Students roll a six-sided die to determine which sight word they will read.
• Students can also scan the QR code on the worksheet using a device with a QR code scanner to access a virtual dice roller.

Reading the Sight Word:

• Students match the number rolled with the corresponding sight word on their worksheet.
• Students read the sight word out loud.
• Students should focus on pronouncing each word correctly and quickly.

Marking Progress:

• Once students read a sight word, they should highlight or color the box. They could also cover it with a counter or place marker etc.
• If students roll a number they have already completed, they should roll again until they land on a new sight word.
• Students continue rolling and reading until they have completed all the sight words on their worksheets.

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This cactus themed Color by CVC Word freebie is a preview of our full size Color by CVC Word units. This freebie comes with a "short a" puzzle featuring the words cat, mad, jam, and pan. Students can use the picture clue puzzle or the word clue puzzle. In the picture clue puzzle, students look at the picture of the word and then find the corresponding word to color. In the word clue puzzle, students have the CVC word to look at and find the matching word to color. No prep! Just print and go.

**This freebie comes with short a only, but the full units come with all five vowel families, each in two difficulty levels for 10 puzzles total.**

You can find all of the themed Color by CVC Word units here

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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

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Short A- Easy Guided Reading Small Group Lesson Plans for 1st Grade- Print & Go

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!

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Use these phoneme-grapheme mapping charts in your phonics and small group lessons! Two options are provided. One with 4 sound boxes for earlier readers and one with 7 boxes for more advanced patterns.

See the video below for this chart in action!

Word Mapping Chart Video

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.

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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.

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Build a CVC Word- A Digital Resource for Google Slides

Build a CVC Word is a fun resource designed to make phonics practice exciting and interactive for your early learners! Perfect for both classroom and distance learning, this resource is hosted on Google Slides, providing a hassle-free way to reinforce CVC word recognition. Students will drag and move the letter tiles to build each CVC word. Teachers can easily integrate this resource into their Google Classroom assignments. This set also contains a BONUS printable version of Build a CVC Word that can be used for additional practice!