K-2 Reading Games and Activities

These games for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade are a great way to build engagement in and excitement about reading, writing, and speaking! Alphabet, decoding, vowels, digraphs, fluency, comprehension, and more.
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Autumn Vocabulary Riddles for Centers and Small Groups
Keep your little learners engaged & growing with these 24 fall riddles! They're a great way to develop critical listening skills & to model early comprehension skills like identifying key details, using prior knowledge, inferring, & drawing conclusions. The set includes a ready-to-use Easel digital version, plus full page versions of each riddle that you can use with your own favorite apps! You'll also get a board game & a template for writing new riddles. Click to try a few free riddles!
Sight Word Games and Activities
Find these sight word activities at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sight-Words-Cards-and-Activities-for-Tricky-T-and-W-Words-201700?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_campaign=Ocean%20Sight%20Words
Simple Ideas for Poetry Month
Feeling intimidated by teaching poetry to your primary grade learners? Check this post for simple ideas to incorporate into your day, using procedures that you probably already have in place! You'll find some great ideas for poetry books to use, as well as a free template for teaching your littles a simple poem format that even the youngest writers can use! Use these ideas for Poetry Month in April or any time of year!
CVC Winter Freebie
Here's a free easy prep short vowel game that's great for winter days in kindergarten and first grade. Using traditional four in a row format, your students roll and read CVC words, marking words until a player has four words in a row marked. No cards to print - no cards to lose! Fun freebie for a literacy center game, literacy intervention, fast finishers, or even as family homework!
Parent Letters in Spanish & English
Build a strong home-school connection by sending learning games home with your students. Here's a free letter to your families in both English and Spanish, filled with tips for using games to help their children succeed in school! Enjoy this free resource from Primary Inspiration by Linda Nelson!
Free Family Letter | Home-School Connection
Do you send learning games home for families to play with your students? Games are an easy way to get some great skills practice in a format that will be fun for your students and their families! Include this free family letter with your games to help your families feel comfortable and supported. Free letter in English and Spanish! #homeschoolconnection #buildingclassroomcommunity
Christmas Sight Word Activities
Your students will practice sight words in context and build fluency with this non-competitive holiday board game. Fun for partners, but works as an independent activity during social distancing, too. Also includes 24 word/sentence/picture cards, for matching & memory games, pocket chart, even a simple addition game! An engaging kindergarten & first grade Christmas activity for literacy intervention or for your literacy centers.
Pocket Chart Sentences for Thanksgiving
Do your kindergarten and first grade students love to work at the pocket chart? Put that enthusiasm to good use with this free Thanksgiving sentence building activity! Includes word cards, strips with suggested sentences, and turkey pointers to encourage one-to-one match, directional behaviors, and self-monitoring. Enjoy this free Thanksgiving resource! #freebie
Short Vowels CVC Words
Alphabet Letter Riddles
Build alphabet knowledge and active listening skills as your students solve these letter riddles! Your kindergarteners and early firsts will listen as you read the clues, your late first and second graders will read to find key details, infer, and draw conclusions. Includes full-page format, ready to digitize with your favorite apps and programs. Click now to see the other activities in this set!
Free Autumn Sight Word Phrases
Build the critical early fluency skills of phrasing and rate with this free set of 19 autumn phrase cards. Put them on a ring and you've got an instant fall literacy center activity! The download also includes an accountability page, building phrases into sentences. #freefluencyactivities #autumnliteracyactivities #freeautumnactivities
Free Long Vowel Game
Practice those confusing spelling patterns for the long sound of i with this free board game! Includes 72 long i word cards, great for word sorts, too. Keep learning fun by adding this free game to your first grade literacy centers and rotations. #vowelactivities #longvowelactivities #firstgradereading
Real or Fantasy Sorting Cards and MatsPrimary Inspiration
Little learners have big imaginations! Help them sort out real and fantasy with this set of 45 pairs of picture cards. Great for discussion and for developing this early comprehension skill in preschool, kindergarten, speech and language, and with ELL and special needs students! Also includes sorting mats, to help your students identify common chracteristics for each category. #realorfantasyactivities #preschool #realorfantasykindergarten