Thanksgiving Literacy Centers for Kindergarten | Morning Tubs

Bring Thanksgiving excitement into your classroom with these engaging literacy centers for kindergarten! Each activity in this pack is designed to build essential early reading and phonics skills through fun, interactive practice. Children will love working with seasonal themes while developing confidence in letter sounds, sight words, and sentence comprehension.

🦃 What’s Included in the Thanksgiving Literacy Centers for Kindergarten

1. Pumpkins Letter Match: Match uppercase and lowercase letters using colorful pumpkin cards.
2. Alphabet Puzzles: Arrange puzzle pieces in ABC order to reveal a Thanksgiving picture.
3. Clip the Syllables: Count and clip the correct number of syllables for each Thanksgiving word.
4. Turkey Beginning Sounds: Identify the first sound in each picture and clip or mark the answer.
5. Pumpkin Pie Middle Sounds: Read CVC words and sort them by the missing middle vowel onto pie pans.
6. Ending Sound Wagons: Sort CVC words by their ending sound onto matching wagons.
7. Turkey Spin and Rhyme: Use a spinner to find and match rhyming words with Thanksgiving vocabulary.
8. Write the Room: Search for Thanksgiving vocabulary cards around the room and record the words.
9. Sight Word Turkeys: Match Pre-Primer and Primer sight words in different fonts to the correct turkey.
10. Sentence Match: Read simple Thanksgiving sentences and find the matching picture.

Each activity includes a center label, “I Can” instruction card, and recording page to help children stay on task while providing teachers with easy evidence of learning.

✏️ How to Use

Print, laminate, and cut out the materials to prepare your Thanksgiving Literacy Centers for Kindergarten. Use them during literacy rotations, small-group practice, or as early-finisher activities throughout the fall season. Each task is low-prep, easy to organize, and perfect for reinforcing foundational literacy concepts.

🎯 Educational Benefits

• Builds letter recognition and sound identification
• Strengthens phonemic awareness and CVC decoding
• Encourages rhyming and sight word fluency
• Promotes fine motor coordination through clipping and sorting
• Develops reading comprehension and written expression

🧺 Thanksgiving Literacy Centers for Kindergarten Organization Ideas

• Keep each center in a small bin or zip bag with the provided label.
• Attach “I Can” cards for student independence and easy rotation setup.
• Store completed recording pages in a literacy folder or student portfolio.

Happy Teaching! 😊