1st Grade Bundle of Literacy Centers

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I’m excited to share an exclusive bundle of resources curated for your specific grade level! As a Success With Centers course member, you can get the bundle for 50% off!! Read below to see all the amazing standards based literacy centers that are included! You can also download this guide (shown below) to use as a reference as you plan out your centers!

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First Grade Opinion Writing

This mini-unit includes everything you need to incorporate opinion writing into your 1st grade literacy centers! This resource is designed with standards-based research and includes a mini-lesson to use as a review, suggested mentor text and online resources, academic vocabulary posters, anchor chart, graphic organizers and seasonal writing prompts.
Each prompt comes with a publishing paper that has a story specific vocabulary word bank to assist young writers in brainstorming ideas and spelling words while writing. In addition, students can edit their work with the self-editing checklists.

This resource includes:

Unpacking the standard & notes for the teacher
Suggested mentor text & online resources
Mini-Lesson(s)
Academic vocabulary teaching posters
Anchor chart
Generic graphic organizers & publishing paper (for any topic)
Seasonal writing prompts (5 Fall, 5 Winter, 5 Summer, 5 Spring 4 any time of the year) PRINTABLE & DIGITAL (GOOGLE SLIDES uploaded Seesaw images included if you want to upload)
Would You Rather – opinion conversational task cards

First Grade Informative Writing

This mini-unit includes everything you need to incorporate informative writing into your 1st grade literacy centers! This resource is designed with standards-based research and includes a mini-lesson to use as a review, suggested mentor text and online resources, academic vocabulary posters, anchor chart, graphic organizers and seasonal writing prompts.

Each prompt comes with a publishing paper that has a story specific vocabulary word bank to assist young writers in brainstorming ideas and spelling words while writing. In addition, students can edit their work with the self-editing checklists.

This resource includes:

Unpacking the standard & notes for the teacher
Suggested mentor text & online resources
Mini-Lesson
Academic vocabulary teaching posters
Anchor chart
Generic graphic organizers & publishing paper (for any topic)
Seasonal writing prompts (5 Fall, 5 Winter, 5 Summer, 5 Spring) PRINTABLE & DIGITAL (GOOGLE SLIDES uploaded Seesaw images included if you want to upload)
Roll-a-topic writing center

First Grade Narrative Writing

This resource is designed with standards-based research and includes two mini-lessons to use as a review, suggested mentor text and online resources, academic vocabulary posters, anchor chart, and seasonal writing prompts. This writing center includes seasonal writing prompt choice boards for personal narratives and imaginative narratives. The writing prompts and publishing paper include vocabulary word banks to assist young writers in brainstorming ideas and spelling words while writing. In addition, students can edit their work with the self-editing checklists.

This resource includes:

Unpacking the standard & notes for the teacher
Suggested mentor text & Online resources
Mini-Lessons for Personal narrative & Imaginative narrative
Academic vocabulary teaching posters
Graphic Organizers (multiple options to differentiate)
Publishing Paper- primary lined with temporal word bank
Personal narrative seasonal prompt choices (6 each Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer) PRINTABLE & DIGITAL (GOOGLE SLIDES)
Imaginative narrative seasonal fiction titles choices (6 each Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer) PRINTABLE & DIGITAL (GOOGLE SLIDES)
Rubrics (Personal narrative and Imaginative narrative)
Prompt Images to Upload to Seesaw if desired

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer Writing Prompts

These writing prompts will naturally differentiate your writing center! Each prompt has a story specific vocabulary word bank to assist young writers in brainstorming ideas and spelling words while writing. In addition, students can edit their work with the self editing checklists.
Included in this resource are (3 versions) 40 engaging prompts to last you throughout the year. There are color and black and white versions to best meet the needs of your class. In addition, each black and white prompt comes in both primary and regular lined pages. I have also included a self editing checklist chart, sight word list, and lined paper options.

Sentence Building Year Long Center Bundle

Your students will be engaged while building seasonal (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer) themed sentences with word cards! After building each sentence at their level, they will write the sentence on their worksheet and use the checklist to edit for accuracy. Students will also have the opportunity to practice their reading fluency by reading to themselves and a friend as indicated on the worksheet. There are 2 versions of each sentence so you can easily differentiate this center.

Included in this resource:

master sentences list
240 sentences (2 versions EMERGENT and EARLY FLUENT for differentiation)
120 DIGITAL Google slides + Seesaw Activities
40 recording sheets (2 versions of each)
teacher tips for use

How to Writing

This mini-unit includes everything you need to incorporate how-to writing into your literacy centers. Each writing prompt includes a story specific, picture supported vocabulary word bank. The graphic organizer provides students with structure and support while outlining their writing and additional publishing paper is provided for each prompt if you wish students to create a final draft. In addition, students can edit their work with the provided self-editing checklists.

Included in this resource:

Unpacking the standard & notes for the teacher
Suggested mentor text & Online resources
Mini-Lesson for How-to writing
Academic vocabulary teaching posters
Graphic Organizer with self-editing checklist
Publishing Paper- primary lined
Rubric
16 How-to writing prompts -Print and Digital Google Slides
Digital Images to upload to Seesaw if you wish

Write the Room Year Long Bundle

This resource provides a meaningful way for students to practice reading sentences with basic sight words and writing complete sentences. In addition, rereading the sentences gives students the opportunity to practice reading accurately and fluently.This resource makes DIFFERENTIATION a breeze! There are 2 versions of sentences (emergent and advanced) for each picture. The cards with a blue star are for advanced readers. The emergent sentences have underlined words to remind your students to use the picture cues. The sentences are ready for you to print, laminate, cut, and tape them around your classroom.

Included in the YEAR LONG long resource:

136 sentence picture cards (2 versions of each card to differentiate)
recording sheets (2 different styles)
blank recording sheets to use as desired

Word Sort – Differentiated

Help your students master phonics skills and spelling patterns with these engaging, interactive printable and digital word sort activities! Differentiated word sorts are an engaging phonics activity to compliment your word study routines. There are two levels of word sorts: whole words and words with the missing target spelling pattern to assign to your students. Students will look for common spelling patterns, sort, then communicate what they notice and have learned about the words they’ve sorted. This NO PREP resource has been PRELOADED for you, with 1 click add them to your Seesaw library or Google Drive, then assign to your students! This resource includes 2 levels of both printable and digital word sorts that will last you the entire year!

This resource includes 44 word sort units.

Included Phonics Patterns:

CVC Words
Digraphs
Blends
Long Vowels
Diphthongs
R-Controlled Vowels
Complex Vowels
Prefixes
Suffixes

Read and Match Bundle

Students will love these interactive phonics sentence activities! This resource includes both PRINTABLE decodable sentence worksheets perfect for a literacy center and NO PREP DIGITAL activities. They have been PRELOADED for you, with 1 click add them to your Seesaw library or Google Drive, then assign to your students! There are 265 decodable phonics sentences with early sight words. Students will demonstrate comprehension by reading and matching the picture, then reread the sentences to build reading fluency. There are 5 sentences on each slide/printable for students to read.

Phonics skills included in this resource:

CVC
Blends & Digraphs
Long vowel
Diphthong & R-Controlled Vowels

Fun Phonics Finds

Help students sharpen phonemic awareness skills with Fun Phonics Finds! These NO PREP phonemic awareness and phonics activities are an engaging way to help students demonstrate their understanding of sounds and practice writing words with the target sound-spelling pattern.

Includes: Short vowels, digraphs, blends, long vowels, R-Controlled & diphthongs.

Each phonics skills includes 2 versions of each activity:

Students read the words with the target phonemes and find pictures to match.
Students find pictures with the target phoneme, sort, and write the words to match.

Digital First Grade Sight Words

This NO PREP resource has been PRELOADED for you, with 1 click add them to your Seesaw library or Google Drive, then assign to your students! Students will love to search and find the hidden sight words in these interactive, digital activities! There are 10 words to find, drag, and read in each slide to help students increase familiarity with the high frequency words they will encounter most often while reading.

41 First Grade Dolch Sight Words Included: after, again, an, any, as, ask, by, could, every, fly, from, give, going, had, has, her, him, his, how, just, know, let, live, may, of, old, once, open, over, put, round, some, stop, take, thank, them, then, think, walk, were, when

Digital Second Grade Sight Words

46 Second Grade Dolch Sight Words Included: always, around, because, been, before, best, both, buy, call, cold, does, don’t, fast, first, five, found, gave, goes, green, its, made, many, off, or, pull, read, right, sing, sit, sleep, tell, their, these, those, upon, us, use, very, wash, which, why, wish, work, would, write, your

Fine Motor – Spin a Sight Word

These spin a sight word worksheets are ready to print and practice those tricky sight words! There are 2 options of sight word activities that are a hands-on, engaging way for young learners to practice fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination as they are learning to read, write, and spell sight words.

2 Fine Motor Sight Word Games Included:

Spin and Clip Sight Words
Spin and Trace the Sight Word

220 dolch sight words included: the to and he a I you it of in was said his that she for on they but had at him with up all look is her there some out as be have go we am then little down do can could when did what so see not were get them like one this my would me will yes big went are come if now long no came ask very an over your its how know right put too got take where every pretty jump green four ride into just blue red from good any about around want don’t away old by their here saw call after well think ran let help make going sleep brown yellow five six walk two or before eat again play who been may stop off never seven eight cold today fly myself round tell much keep give work first try new must start black white ten does bring goes write always drink once soon made run gave open has find only us three our better hold buy funny warm ate full those done use fast say light pick hurt pull cut kind both sit which fall carry small under read why own found those which their always were could where about again wash show hot because far live draw clean grow best upon these sing together please thank wish many shall laugh

Fine Motor – Trace, Build, Write a Sight Word

These trace, build, and write sight word worksheets are ready to print and practice those tricky sight words! There are 2 options of sight word activities that are a hands-on, engaging way for young learners to practice fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination as they are learning to read, write, and spell sight words. The direction arrows are designed to help emergent writers with proper letter formation as they are tracing the dotted letters of each sight word. There are 2 options included in this resource, you may want to print the half sheet words then laminate or place them in a plastic sleeve so they can be reused by your students!

2 Fine Motor Trace, Build, Write Word Activities Included:

full page sight word trace, build, write
half page sight word tracing

220 sight words included: the to and he a I you it of in was said his that she for on they but had at him with up all look is her there some out as be have go we am then little down do can could when did what so see not were get them like one this my would me will yes big went are come if now long no came ask very an over your its how know right put too got take where every pretty jump green four ride into just blue red from good any about around want don’t away old by their here saw call after well think ran let help make going sleep brown yellow five six walk two or before eat again play who been may stop off never seven eight cold today fly myself round tell much keep give work first try new must start black white ten does bring goes write always drink once soon made run gave open has find only us three our better hold buy funny warm ate full those done use fast say light pick hurt pull cut kind both sit which fall carry small under read why own found those which their always were could where about again wash show hot because far live draw clean grow best upon these sing together please thank wish many shall laugh

Fine Motor – Sight Word Puzzles

Sight word puzzles are ready to print and practice those tricky sight words! These sight word activities are a hands-on, engaging way for young learners to practice fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination as they are learning to read, write, and spell sight words. Simply print the desired sight word puzzles. Each list of 10 words are self-checking as students put the puzzles together. Also included are organizational labels and a master sight word list.

First Grade Reading Response

These standards-based reading response activities are the perfect addition to your literacy centers, small group, or whole class reading lessons. Response sheets come in both PRINTABLE and DIGITAL files making it the perfect addition to use in the classroom or for distance learning. These response sheets are standards-based and can be used for both fiction and nonfiction reading. This resource includes two different versions of response sheets: those designed for use with any book of your choice or those designed for use with specific titles (also linked in E P I C!). On this site, you can create a FREE educator account and access all the titles that are linked in this resource. Students can read or listen to these books in the classroom or at home.

This reading response resource includes activity sheets for 18 books, each text has 3-5 standards-based activities to choose from. I’ve also included an answer key for each response activity.

Fiction & Nonfiction Skills Include: