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Literacy activities

As early education teachers, we have the very awe-inspiring job, (and incredible privilege) of introducing letters and sounds and written words to our students.

We help our students take squiggly lines, turn them into letters, connect them to sounds and push it all together into real words that form real sentences that tell stories. Whew. We are amazing.  

And with a ton of patience and even more hard work, we get to witness the moment it all clicks: when the skills come together and a child can pick up a book and read the words in front of them. 

It's like magic. 

Except any teacher who's ever taught pre-K, Kindergarten and first grade knows it's not really magic. It's systematically, consistently and relentlessly teaching children the phonemic awareness and phonics skills they'll need so when they pick up their first chapter book it feels like magic to everyone else.

How do we get them from A to Z? From looking at picture books to actually reading? With fun, hands-on, engaging language arts activities our kids want to do over and over again. 

So I've rounded up my very best language arts activities and resources for you in one spot so you don't have to search for the just-right printable to help your kiddos. Spend less hours scrolling through Pinterest and bookmark this page. And then come back often since I'm adding new content weekly.

If there is a resource you would LOVE to have for your classroom that I don't currently have, please feel free to Contact Me!

 

Letters & Letter Sounds
<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/animal-alphabet-letter-crafts/">Animal Alphabet Letter Crafts</a></b>
Animal Alphabet Letter Crafts
Fall Initial Sound Match-Up Free Printable is the perfect addition to your literacy centers this autumn. This hands-on activity is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students. 
Fall Initial sound Match-Up
Make learning fun with these Christmas Match-Ups Bundle. This includes themed centers for Initial Sounds, Middle Sounds, Ending Sounds, Blends, Digraphs, and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun Christmas themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups this Christmas. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Snowman Match-Up Bundle
Make learning fun with these Christmas Match-Ups Bundle. This includes themed centers for Initial Sounds, Middle Sounds, Ending Sounds, Blends, Digraphs, and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun Christmas themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups this Christmas. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Christmas Match-Up Bundle
Candy Corn Initial Sound Puzzles is the perfect addition to your literacy centers this fall.  This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students.
Candy Corn Initial Sound Puzzles
Make learning fun with these themed Initial Sound and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun play dough themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups all year long. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Play Dough Initial Sound and Numbers Match-Ups
Make learning fun with these themed Initial Sound and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun popcorn themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups all year long. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Popcorn Initial Sound and Number Match-Up
Make learning fun with these themed Initial Sound and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun Easter themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Easter Initial Sound & Number Match-Up
Make learning fun with this themed Flowers Initial Sound Match-Up. Your elementary age students will love this fun spring themed literacy center! Perfect for literacy stations or small review groups. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Flower Initial Sound Match-Up
Make learning fun with these these Flowers Initial Sound and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun spring themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Flower Initial Sound & Number Match-Up
Make learning fun with these Valentine's Day Initial Sound and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun Valentine's Day themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
Valentine's Day Initial Sound & Number Match-Up
Initial Sound Penguin Puzzles is the perfect addition to your literacy centers this winter. This free printable is great for preschool and kindergarten students. 
Initial Sound Penguin Puzzles
The Initial Sound Snowman Printable is the perfect addition to your literacy centers this winter. This free printable is great for preschool and kindergarten students. 
Initial Sound Snowman
Santa Letter Puzzles is the perfect hands-on addition to literacy centers this Christmas and holiday season. This free printable is perfect for preschool and kindergarten students. 
Santa Letter Puzzles
Turkey Initial Sounds is the perfect Thanksgiving literacy center to have students practice beginning sounds. This free printable is perfect for preschool and kindergarten students.
Turkey Initial Sounds
<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/farm-literacy-math-centers/">Farm Literacy & Math Centers</a></b>
Farm Literacy & Math Centers
Engage your class in an exciting hands-on experience learning more about the apple! This pack is perfect for language arts and math centers in preschool, pre-K, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms and packed full of inviting student activities. Celebrate Fall with apple themed center student worksheets. Students will learn more about apples using puzzles, worksheets, clip cards, and subtraction mats. This pack is great for homeschoolers, hands-on kids activities, and to add to your unit studies! Teachers will receive the complete unit for Autumn apple math and literacy activities to help teach about apples to your lower elementary students!
Apple Literacy and Math Centers
Play Dough Alphabet Match-Ups are a fun, hands-on way for students to practice learning the letters of the alphabet. This free printable is perfect for preschool and kindergarten students. 
Play Dough Alphabet Match-Up
Engage your class in an exciting hands-on experience learning more about the apple! This pack is perfect for science, language arts, and math centers in Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade classrooms and packed full of inviting student activities. Celebrate Fall with apple themed center student worksheets. Students will learn more about apples using puzzles, worksheets, clip cards, and subtraction mats. This pack is great for homeschoolers, hands-on kids activities, and to add to your unit studies! Teachers will receive the complete unit for Autumn apple science, math, and literacy activities to help teach about apples to your lower elementary students!
Apples Bundle
Engage your class in Dolch Primer {Brights} sight word activities, literacy centers, and word wall! This unit is perfect for literacy centers in Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade classrooms and packed full of inviting student activities. Students will learn using their favorite alphabet games, Play Doh word mats, Tic-Tac-Toe, and more! This pack is great for homeschoolers with a student assessment included!
Dolch Primer {Brights}
Fine Motor Bats is a great hands-on activity for students to review their letters, numbers, or sight words, while working on fine motor skills. It is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students.
Fine Motor Bats
Learning letters becomes so much FUN when you implement apple initial sound match up in your classroom! Perfect for your PreK, Kindergarten, or First Grade classroom.
Apple Initial Sound Match Ups
Gingerbread Subtraction Mats are the perfect addition to your math centers this Christmas holiday season. This free printable is perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students.
Initial Sound Gingerbread Puzzles
Your students are going to LOVE learning about ending sounds with this apple ending sound match up! Perfect for your early literacy center!
Apple Ending Sound Match Up
The Alphabet is the building blocks of literacy. Students show what they know with these Apple Alphabet Puzzles, as they learn and review in a hands-on way.  
Apple Alphabet Puzzles
<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/lowercase-alphabet-posters/">Lowercase Alphabet Posters</a></b>
Lowercase Alphabet Posters
The alphabet is one of my favorite things to teach little learners! When you can make learning hands-on kids LOVE it and learning really sticks with the kids. Here's a set of some of my favorite hands-on alphabet learning for little learners!
Hands-on Alphabet Learning
Play Dough Alphabet Match-Ups are a fun, hands-on way for students to practice learning the letters of the alphabet. This free printable is perfect for preschool and kindergarten students. 
Play Dough Alphabet Match-Up
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Swat the Bug Learning Activity
Do you have any unicorn lovers in your classroom or house? These unicorn Alphabet Puzzles will be the perfect way for your preschool and kindergarten students to practice learning the alphabet. This free printable is great for introducing or reviewing the letters. 
Unicorn Alphabet Puzzles
Here are our favorite alphabet toys and tools for teaching little learners. These are perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students.
Alphabet Teaching Tools
This alphabet Leaf Activity is perfect for preschool and kindergarten students in the fall. It gets students moving and having fun learning.
Alphabet Leaf Activity
Summertime is almost over, which means pool noodles will be on SALE everywhere so why not go grab a few for cheap and use them for an educational purpose?! We have been working on letters the last few weeks before my oldest heads off to preschool and I thought the pool noodle alphabet match would be a great way for her to practice matching uppercase and lowercase letters.
Pool Noodle Alphabet Match
This DIY Tactile Alphabet Cards freebie is perfect for preschool age students wanting to learn their letters and also a great back to school center for kindergarten students needing a little refresher.
DIY Tactile Alphabet Cards
Help your preschoolers learn their ABCs with Alphabet Puzzles! Use in your homeschool, Kindergarten, or First Grade classrooms. Color and black and white versions included! Review beginning sounds using version one of alphabet puzzle with the word accompanying the picture. Then move students to version two which requires students to use their sounds to put the puzzle pieces back together.
Alphabet Puzzles
Your preschoolers are going to LOVE Alphabet Posters! These posters are a great addition to help your students better learn their letters. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. This pack includes 26 posters that each contain a letter and several pictures that start with the given letter. There is a color version and black and white version.
Uppercase Alphabet Posters
Fine Motor Alphabet is a low prep, fun, hands-on learning activity. It helps children improve their fine motor skills while learning the letters of the alphabet.
Fine Motor Alphabet Activity
Join A Dab of Glue Will Do's Newsletter and get this full product for FREE. These Alphabet Books are great for a wide range of ages. They are perfect for introducing letters and even reviewing letters.
Alphabet Books Freebie
Make learning fun with these themed Initial Sound and Number Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun St. Patrick's Day themed literacy center and math center! Perfect for literacy stations, math stations, or small review groups. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.
St. Patrick's Day Initial Sound & Number Match-Up
This Christmas Initial Sound Match-up resource is perfect for helping your little readers build on their phonological awareness.
Christmas Initial Sound Match-Up
Building and Reading Words
<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/spring-cvc-puzzles/">Spring CVC Puzzles</a></b>
Spring CVC Puzzles
Spring is in the air and what better way to get your students in the mood than with this adorable Flowers CVC Word Building Activity Freebie. This printable is the perfect addition to your literacy centers this spring. Your students will LOVE building cvc words - promise!
Lower CVC Word Building Freebie
Groundhog CVC Puzzles will be the perfect addition to your literacy centers this Groundhog Day. This free printable is perfect for kindergarten and first grade students.
Groundhog CVC Puzzles
Ice Cream CCVC Match-Up Printable is the perfect addition to your literacy centers this summer. This free printable is great for kindergarten and first grade students.
Ice Cream CCVC Match-Up
Dinosaur CCVC Puzzles is the perfect addition to your literacy centers anytime of the school year. This free printable is ideal for kindergarten and first grade students. 
Dinosaur CCVC Puzzles
Robot CVC Word Puzzles is the perfect addition to your literacy centers. This free printable is great for preschool, kindergarten and first grade students. 
Robot CVC Word Puzzles
Farm CVC Words is perfect way to have students practice making words in a fun, hands-on literacy center. This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and even first grade. It is a great addition during a farm theme or unit.
Farm CVC Words
<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/vowel-clip-card-printable-freebie/">Vowel Clip Cards</a></b>
Vowel Clip Cards
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This Apple Blends Match-Up helps students pull together individual sounds or syllables within words in an enjoyable hands-on way
Apple Blend Match-Up
<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/summer-blend-puzzles/">Summer Blends Puzzles</a></b>
Summer Blends Puzzles
Write the Room Blends is the perfect literacy center that combine movement and learning, while having fun learning. This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students. 
Write the Room Blends
Flowers Blend Match-Up is the perfect addition to your spring literacy centers. This free printable is perfect for kindergarten and first grade students. 
Flower Blend Match-Up
St. Patrick's Day Blend Match-Up is a fun, hands-on way to review blends during the month of March. This free printable is perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade.
St. Patrick's Day Blend Match-Up
Christmas Tree Blend Puzzles is the perfect addition to your literacy centers this holiday season. This free printable is great for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students. 
Christmas Tree Blend Puzzles
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Students feel accomplished when they master spelling their name with this Christmas Editable Name Activity and worksheets.
Christmas Editable Name Activity
This Pumpkin Editable Name Activity is the perfect way for kids recognize and practice building their name in a fun hands-on way!
Pumpkin Editable Name Activity
<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/sunflower-name-and-fingerprint-craft/">Sunflower Name & Fingerprint Craft</a></b>
Sunflower Name & Fingerprint Craft
Flower Names – Name Building Practice Printable is a fun, hands-on activity that will have your students building their name in no time. This free, editable printable is perfect for toddlers, preschool, and kindergarten students this spring.
Flower Name Building Practice
St. Patrick's Day Names – Name Building Practice Printable is a fun, hands-on activity that will have your students building their name in no time. This free, editable printable is perfect for toddlers, preschool, and kindergarten students. 
St. Patrick's Day Name Activity
Snowman Names - Name Building Practice Printable is the perfect hands-on activity for students to practice making their name. This free printable is perfect for preschool and kindergarten students. 
Flower Name Building Practice
Turkey Names is the perfect fall activity to have preschool and kindergarten students practicing spelling their name. This Thanksgiving printable is editable and free. 
Flower Name Building Practice
Ice Cream Scoops: Name Activity is a fun and interactive way for kids to practice building their name. This product is editable.
Flower Name Building Practice
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<b><a href="https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/best-writing-teaching-tools-for-little-learners/">Writing Tools for Little Learners</a></b>
Writing Tools for Little Learners
Under the Tree Writing is the perfect activity to have your students write about what they want to see under their Christmas tree. This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students this holiday season. 
Writing Prompt Under the Tree
Apple Writing Center has everything that you need to include into your literacy rotations when learning about apples.
Apple Writing Center
Write the Room Blends is the perfect literacy center that combine movement and learning, while having fun learning. This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students. 
Write the Room Blends
Community Helpers Write and Color the Room is the perfect addition to your community helper unit. This printable is great for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students.
Community Helpers Write & Color the Room
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Presidents' Day Emergent Reader is the perfect addition to your social studies lesson plans this February. This free printable is great for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students. 
Presidents' Day Emergent Reader
I always loved using emergent readers when I was teaching. They are a great tool to help improve reading skills and increase vocabulary. My new freebie, I See Ocean Animals Interactive Emergent Reader, allows students to do both of these things, while learning about ocean animals. Animal words can be tricky and this resource will help students to better retain what they are learning.
Ocean Interactive Reader
This Earth Day Emergent Reader will be the perfect addition to your Earth Day lesson plans this spring. This free printable comes in color and black and white and is perfect for pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade.
Earth Day Emergent Reader
Farm and Color Emergent Reader is perfect way to teach students about farm and color words. This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and even first grade. It is a great addition to a farm theme or unit.
Farm & Color Emergent Reader
The Presidential Election will be here before we know it . Since this is a very important event for the United States that only happens every four years, it is important to discuss and educate even the littlest of learners. I always love combining social studies with literacy so I created an Election Day Emergent Reader and Ballot activity.
Election Day Emergent Reader
This I See Fall Interactive Reader is a fun hands-on way for students to actively engage and improve their reading skills and increase their vocabulary.
Fall Interactive Reader

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THE Literacy Stations printable for your classroom! Perfect for literacy centers in Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade including editable printables. Over 50 pages of literacy station (literacy center) ideas to get the creative juices flowing!
Literacy Stations

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