Back to School Literacy Centers for Kindergarten

Start the school year with confidence using these Back to School Literacy Centers for Kindergarten! This collection of hands-on activities is perfect for independent centers, small groups, or morning tubs during the first weeks of school. Each activity targets key early literacy skills while helping children build independence through visual instructions and engaging tasks.

Each center includes:

• A center label for your storage bin or folder
• “I Can” instructions to guide student use
• A recording page to document each child’s work

📚 What’s Included in the Back to School Literacy Centers for Kindergarten

The following activities are also available individually. Click on the title to view the separate product listing.

1. Back to School Write & Wipe Alphabet
   Print, laminate, and cut the cards. Children practice correct letter formation using a dry-erase marker. The cards can be kept together using a key ring or pipe cleaner.
2. Apple Sorting: Upper and Lower Case Letters and Numbers
   Children sort apples into baskets to show uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers. These cards can also be used for alphabetical and numerical order activities and letter matching.
3. Letter Match
   Children use Scrabble tiles, magnetic letters, or the included printable tiles to find matching letters. Options include matching uppercase to uppercase or uppercase to lowercase.
4. Alphabet Tree Upper and Lower Case Clip It!
   Children use pegs or clips to match uppercase letters to lowercase letters and record their answers on the provided sheet.
5. Beginning Sounds Match
   Children use letter tiles or dry-erase markers to find or write the beginning sound for each picture on their card.
6. Back to School Beginning Sounds Clip It!
   Children identify the beginning sound of each picture and clip a peg to show their answer, or use dry-erase markers to color the correct sound.
7. Back to School Write the Room
   Place vocabulary cards around the room and give each child a clipboard with the recording page. Children find the picture cards and write the word next to the matching image.
8. School Bus Word Family Sort
   Children identify the ending of each word and sort it to the correct word family mat.
9. Back to School Syllables Clip It!
   Children count the number of syllables in each word and use pegs or markers to show their answer.
10. Colored Pencils Pre-Primer & Primer Sight Word Sorting
    Children sort sight word pencils into the correct cup using the included printable cups or real plastic cups. This activity covers both Pre-Primer and Primer Dolch sight words.

Perfect for the first weeks of school! Use these activities on their own or pair them with the Back to School Math Centers for a complete start-of-year bundle.

Happy Teaching! 😊