Kindergarten Literacy Centers | Literacy Spinner Centers for the Entire Year

This resource is a perfect way to make Kindergarten literacy centers EASY to prep and plan, interactive, meaningful, and FUN! With 50 center activities included, there’s more than enough to incorporate a “spinner center” in your classroom the entire school year! Inside you'll find a wide variety of Kindergarten skills - letter recognition, letter/word/sentence, phonemic awareness, beginning sounds, ending sounds, middle short vowel sounds, nouns, color words, CVC words, CVCe words, word families, and MORE!

The directions for each center stay the same – so you can explain once, and your students will know what to do every time. The only thing that changes is the skill they are practicing. There are no themes included in this packet, so all of the activities are perfect year-round. With a click-able table of contents at the beginning of the packet you can easily find what you need and have it ready when your students are.

The activities in this resource are designed to provide your students with a hands-on and interactive way to practice the literacy skills covered in Kindergarten. You can use these activities as literacy stations, morning tub activities, or fast finisher tasks.

Students will record their answers using a color-code so you can easily check their work and monitor their progress! Each activity includes teacher-friendly directions and Kindergarten-friendly “I Can” visual directions. These are great for keeping students on task or to show what students are working on during administration walk-throughs!

To prepare each activity just print and laminate the spinner and print the black and white recording sheet. You could also place the recording sheets in a page protector and have students use plastic math cubes to cover their answers. To help keep you organized, the title and picture on the spinner and recording sheet match.

Students will need a paperclip and a pencil to make a spinner. You can also use plastic transparent spinners, if you have them. I got mine on Amazon and I love them! Students will also need crayons to color their answers.

Activity Directions: Students will spin the spinner and identify their spinner and the color. They will find a corresponding answer on the recording sheet and color, write, or trace the answer using the color code.

Skills Include:

1. Letter or Word?

2. Letter, Word, or Sentence?

3. Number of Letters: Counting Letters in a Word

4. Number of Words: Counting Words in a Sentence

5. Uppercase or Lowercase

6. Letter Match 1: Uppercase to Uppercase

7. Letter Match 2: Lowercase to Lowercase

8. Make a Match 1: Uppercase to Lowercase

9. Make a Match 2: Lowercase to Uppercase

10. Where's the Sound? 1: Beginning, Middle, or End

11. Where's the Sound? 2: Beginning, Middle, or End

12. Same Beginning Sounds 1: Match Picture to Picture

13. Same Beginning Sounds 2: Match Picture to Picture

14. Beginning Sounds 1: Match Letter to Picture

15. Beginning Sounds 2: Match Letter to Picture

16. Same Ending Sounds 1: Match Picture to Picture

17. Same Ending Sounds 2: Match Picture to Picture

18. Ending Sounds 1: Match Letter to Picture

19. Ending Sounds 2: Match Letter to Picture

20. Same Middle Sounds 1: Match Picture to Picture (Short Vowel)

21. Same Middle Sounds 2: Match Picture to Picture (Short Vowel)

22. Middle Sounds 1: Match Letter to Picture (Short Vowel)

23. Middle Sounds 2: Match Letter to Picture (Short Vowel)

24. Rhyming Words 1: Match Picture to Picture

25. Rhyming Words 2: Match Picture to CVC Word

26. Rhyming Words 3: Match CVC Word to CVC Word

27. Syllables 1: 1, 2, and 3 Syllables

28. Syllables 2: 2, 3, and 4 Syllables

29. Read the Word 1: Real and Nonsense CVC Words

30.Read the Word 2: Real and Nonsense CVCe Words

31. Colors All Around 1: Color Words - Yellow, Blue, Brown, and Purple

32. Colors All Around 2: Color Words - Red, Black, Orange, and Green

33. Nouns: Person, Place, Thing, or Animal

34. Short or Long 1: Vowel Sounds with Pictures

35. Short or Long 2: Vowel Sounds with Words

36. CVC Word Families 1: Short A

37. CVC Word Families 2: Short E

38. CVC Word Families 3: Short I

39. CVC Word Families 4: Short O

40. CVC Word Families 5: Short U

41. Mixed CVC Words 1: Word Families

42. Mixed CVC Words 2: Word Families

43. CVCe Word Families 1: Long A

44. CVCe Word Families 2: Long I

45. CVCe Word Families 3: Long O

46. CVCe Word Families 4: Long U

47. Mixed CVCe Words 1: Word Families

48. Mixed CVCe Words 2: Word Families

49. Beginning Digraphs: Ch, Sh, Th, Wh

50. Ending Digraphs: Ch, Sh, Th