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Literacy center activities for early readers
From 2014 to 2015, a team of researchers at Florida Center for Reading Research collected ideas and created the VPK Learning Center Activities for use in preschool classrooms. Below, find some recommended activities on the following topics: alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness, and language and vocabulary.
For insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the Learning Center materials, read the Teacher Resource Guide. To view the complete list of preschool learning center activities, click here.
All Florida Center resources are freely available for teachers to download and use in their classrooms.
Please note that the files in this collection can not be downloaded from WeTeachNYC because they link out to an external site.
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This game is designed to help children gain speed and accuracy in letter recognition. They can play in pairs. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
This game is designed to help children gain speed and accuracy in recognizing letter sounds. It can be played in pairs. In addition to the materials available through this link, teachers will also need to print letter cards, which can be found here. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
In this activity, students work in pairs to accurately say and track letter sounds. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
Children make placemats by matching initial phonemes to graphemes by selecting pictures with the same initial sound as their first name. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
Students use sensory materials to practice writing their own name- first, last, or nickname. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
Students use emerging writing skills to make grocery lists. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
Students work in pairs to recognize rhyming words. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
Students work together to match rhyming picture cards to picture boards. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
Children practice segmenting syllables in words. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
This game encourages children to work together to practice segmenting syllables in words. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
Children use puzzle pieces to blend individual words into compound words. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
Children play bingo to practice segmenting, blending, and matching onsets and rimes in words. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
Children practice blending onsets and rimes to make words in this activity. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
In this "choose and chat" activity, children work in pairs using adjectives to describe classroom objects. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
Children work in pairs to identify antonyms. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
Children play a game to encourage their use of a variety of word meaning relationships. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
In this game, children take turns sorting words by category. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
In this "fishing" game, children identify and use regular and irregular plurals. From the Florida Center for Reading Research.
This document shares an overview of the WeTeachNYC collection of literacy center activities for early readers from the Florida Center for Reading Research.
Standards:
Foundational Skills Phonics and Word RecognitionFoundational Skills Phonological AwarenessFoundational Skills Print Concepts
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