K-2 Back to School Literacy Centers BUNDLE | Simple, No-Prep

These Kindergarten, first grade, and 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 literacy centers will help your students review and master key skill areas in Kindergarten through second grade, like the alphabet, phonemic awareness, decoding, spelling, fluency, comprehension, writing, and more! 

With these 348 activity pages, launching centers or independent work is 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 back to school literacy centers:

In Kindergarten

• 4 Sound Match worksheets - Matching pictures by their first sound

• 5 Counting Syllable worksheets - Breaking words into their syllables and counting the syllables

• 26 Trace & Maze worksheets - Tracing and identifying alphabet letters

• 26 Letter Sort worksheets - Identifying the first sound in a word

• 4 Transportation Letter Matching worksheets - Matching capital and lowercase letters

• 5 Match & Write worksheets - Matching capital and lowercase letters

• 26 Playdough Mats - Forming capital and lowercase letters

• 10 Letter Race game boards - Tracing capital and lowercase letters

• 10 Spin & Cover boards- Visual discrimination between letters

• 3 Letter Matching Clip Cards - Matching capital and lowercase letters

• 10 Themed Letter-Sound Mats - Identifying the first sound and letter in a word

• 3 Secret Words Letter-Sound Match pages - Identifying the first letter and sound in a word, reading CVC words (optional)

In First Grade

• 6 Phonemic Awareness Spin & Cover games - Matching pictures with the same beginning, ending, or middle phoneme

• 26 Letter Trace & Phoneme Position worksheets - Letter formation, identifying phoneme position

• 12 Fill in the Missing Letters mats - Segmenting and spelling CVC words and/or blends

• 8 Roll & Read game boards - Letter sounds, CVC words, digraphs, and/or blends

• 10 Find the Right Word mats/worksheets - Decoding CVC words, digraphs, blends, and silent e words

• 5 Silly Spelling worksheets - Segmenting and spelling CVC words, digraphs, and/or blends

• 10 Read & Illustrate worksheets - Decoding, high-frequency word recognition, fluency, sentence comprehension

• 5 Sequence & Write sequencing sheets with corresponding writing sheets - sequence of events, writing

• 10 Decodable Sentence Picture Match & Sequence - Decoding CVC words (and/or words with blends and digraphs), high-frequency words, sentence comprehension, sequencing

• 10 School Scenes Picture Writing worksheets - Sentence writing

• 5 Word Races game boards - Decoding

In Second Grade

• 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