These first grade literacy centers make it SO easy to get students working independently at the beginning of the school year! They’re 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 first grade literacy centers will help your students review and master key skills like letter sounds, phonemic awareness, CVC words, digraphs, reading fluency, comprehension, sentence writing, and more! 

With these 104 activity pages, launching centers or independent work in first grade will be 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

• Learn to work independently

• 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 first grade back to school centers:

• 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

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