Back to School Literacy Centers for 2nd Grade | Simple, No-Prep

These second grade literacy centers make it SO easy to get centers or independent work time up and running at the beginning of the school year! The activities are simple and straightforward, so kids easily learn what to do. And they’re no prep centers, saving you tons of time! These back to school second grade literacy centers will help your students review and master key skill areas like decoding, spelling, fluency, comprehension, writing, and more! 

With these 112 activity pages, launching centers or independent work in second grade will be so much less stressful. The activities follow templates, which means that you can teach an activity once, and students can complete several different versions of it! And that means kids spend less time off-task and more time engaged in learning.

Plus, all you have to do is click and print - saving you hours and hours during the busy back to school season!

These materials will help your students:

• Master and review essential, Science of Reading literacy skills

• Improve their independent work skills

• Stay engaged and on-task, so you can focus on small groups!

These centers are perfect for back-to-school, but since they don’t have a seasonal theme, they can also be used throughout the school year for review or intervention!

Here’s what’s included in these second grade back to school centers:

• 7 Phonics Spin & Cover boards - Decoding words with initial blends, final blends, glued sounds, silent e, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams, and/or 2-syllable words

• 14 Decode & Match sheets - Vocabulary; decoding words with digraphs, blends, glued sounds, silent e, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams, and 2 syllables

• 7 Phonics Board Games with Recording Sheets - Decoding and writing words with digraphs, initial and final blends, glued sounds, -ing and -ed, silent e, r-controlled vowels, and/or vowel teams

• 10 Roll, Read, & Collect Decodable Sentences games - Reading sentences with common high-frequency words and CVC words, digraphs, blends, double final consonants, silent e, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams, and/or 2-syllable words

• 5 Funny Handwriting Practice pages - Letter formation

• 8 Mystery Word Spelling sheets - Spelling words with digraphs, initial blends, final blends, silent e, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams

• 12 Spell the Picture Word Chains - Spelling CVC words, digraphs, blends, glued sounds, silent e, and vowel teams

• 10 Sentence Scrambles sheets - Syntax/sentence construction, handwriting

• 5 “How To” Sequence and Write sheets with Writing Pages - Reading comprehension, sequence of events, informational writing

• 10 “Would You Rather?” Opinion Writing prompt pages - Opinion writing

• 5 Roll a Story sheets and writing paper - Narrative/creative writing

• 9 Back to School Reading Comprehension passages - Reading Comprehension, written response

• 10 Read, Color, and Write Grammar pages - Various grammar skills, sentence writing

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