Literacy CentersCapital and Lowercase Matching

Read the Room

Write the Room

File Folder Games

Magnet Spelling

Handwriting Practice

Listening Center

Rainbow Spelling – Writing the weeks vocab/sight words 3x each in different colored markers

Stamp A Word

Big Books – write the title and draw a picture of your favorite part

Letter Hunt- With a pointer - tally mark for each letter they find (5 letters)

Magazine word cutting- Find sight words

Alphabet Order

Making letters- Playdough, yarn, sand

Do you like? - Practice writing the classroom names

Name Spelling

I stick a school photo of each child on its own quart sized zippered baggie (Hefty One Zip Slider bags are best -- the kids can actually close these bags -- I use them for everything now).  Then inside the baggie I include a strip with that child's name AND I include the individual letters that make up that child's name.  ("Making Words" type letters would work fine.)

The kid unzips the bag, takes out the name strip, puts it on the baggie above the child's picture, then "spells" the name with the indivual letters below the picture.

Writing table

Rhyming words match

Overhead writing

Pocket Chart – put words from a sentence in the book you read that day in order.

Word Card Making- Choose a word from the dictionary and draw your own picture on an index card.

Anything on the overhead!!! I do mostly math problems from a book called Read it! Draw it!! Solve it!! I give them actual abject to use on the overhead to make it more fun. A sample problem would be: There are 9 ants going to the picnic. 6 of them are blue. The rest are yellow. How many are yellow??