Department of Education

Resources - Center Activities

Clucky's Chicken Stacker	This interactive phonics game offers practice identifying short vowel sounds. Grades K-2.
Dr. Seuss's Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling	By focusing on sound words, this lesson helps students develop spelling strategies that help them move from phonemes to graphemes. Scroll down to Session Two to adapt as a center activity. Grades K-2.
Gawain's Word	Using the featured rhymes, kids can practice the most common English spelling patterns. And they'll learn the letter-sound relationships of phonics as they have fun with these rhyming words. Grades K-2.
Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime	This lesson incorporates literature, independent and cooperative learning, critical thinking, and hands-on activities to engage students in learning the ig rime. Scroll down to Day 2 for center activities. Grades K-2.
Gingerbread Phonics: Learning Letter-Sound Correspondence with a Favorite Folktale	In this lesson, early readers use familiar words from a traditional story to learn letter-sound correspondence. Scroll down to Instruction and Activities, steps 4 and 5 for activities that could be adapted for use in a learning center. Grades K-2.
Phonics Through Literature: Learning About the Letter "M"	This lesson incorporates the use of children's literature, in addition to various learning centers and activities that focus on learning about the letter "m." Grades K-2.

Read*Write*Think contains a wealth of reading and writing lessons. It is a collaborative effort between the International Reading Association, NCTE, and Marco Polo.

Bank Street's Guide to Literacy for Volunteers and Tutors , Bank Street College of Education provides reading tutors with a variety of information ranging from background information on literacy and early reading, sample lesson plans, activities, and information on other literacy and reading resources.