Kinder and 1st Grade January literacy centers

This pack includes 20 literacy activities for kindergarteners and 16 centers for 1st grade to use during the month of January. Your students will love having their own "menu" to keep track of their work.

1st Grade Centers

The original "hands-on" centers include:

• Rebuild a poem (poem, student sheet, and sentence strips for poem)
• Read, Visualize Draw (3 different versions)
• Read, Think Match: 2 versions
• Read and sequence: 2 options
• Make a word (match onset and rime of silent e words)
• Snow sounds
• Igloo words (silent e or not)
• Short or Long Vowel Sort
• How many O's? : Deciding if the picture card has one o or two.
• Story starters: narrative, informative, and creative
• Sticker story
• Be an author
• Describe a snow globe
• Sentence scramblers
• Build a sentence
• Word Endings (ing, ed, s)
• Match a sentence
• Slide a sentence

The Digital Centers include:

• Read, Visualize, Choose
• Read and Comprehend
• Read and Sequence
• Read, Think, Match
• Silent e word fill
• Short or Long Sort
• Say it, Spell It
• Match a Word
• Opinion Writing
• Resolution writing
• Narrative Writing
• Describe a Picture
• Sentence Scrambler
• Word Endings (ing, ed, es, s)
• Sentence Fill (Prepositions)
• Build a Sentence

Kindergarten Centers

The original "hands-on" centers include:

Letter Work:

• Letter Sort (letters of different fonts)
• Letter Match (upper and lower case)
• Sound Match (initial sounds)

Word Work:

• Polar Words (matching onset and rime)
• Mitten word making (CVC)
• Snowy Word Match (Picture to word)

Word Sounds:

• Ending Sound Match
• Vowel sort
• Syllable Sort

Writing:

• Word Race (sight words)
• Sticker Story
• Word Hunt (sight words)

Sentence Building:

• Match a sentence
• Build a sentence
• Sentence scrambler

Reading

• Read, Think, Match
• Read and Visualize
• Rebuild a Poem

The new DIGITAL centers include:

Letter Work:

• Letter Sort (letters of different fonts)
• Letter Match (upper and lower case)
• Sound Match (initial sounds)

Word Work:

• Matching onset and rime to make words
• Picture to word Match
• Say it, Spell it

Word Sounds:

• Ending Sound Sort
• Middle Sound Match (vowel match)
• Rhyme Match

Print Concepts/Language:

• Sight Word Building
• Sentence Scrambler (3-4 words per sentence)
• Categorize it! (Sort by season)

There is also a rubric, directions for the teacher, organizational ideas, and checklists included.

Download the preview to see more and click on the video preview to see the digital centers.