The Lit Kit | Phonics and Literacy Centers for Engaged Learning

The Lit Kit is your go-to collection of phonics and literacy centers designed to build strong foundational reading skills through interactive and hands-on practice. Perfect for small groups, independent work, or literacy rotations, this resource helps students develop decoding, fluency, and comprehension skills with ease.

Inside this Lit Kit, you’ll find:

• 12+ print-and-go phonics and literacy activities
  
• Engaging tasks for word work, blending, and reading comprehension
  
• Activities that reinforce high-frequency words, phonics patterns, and decoding skills
  
• Student-friendly instructions and recording sheets for accountability
  
• Differentiated activities to meet a variety of learning levels
  

⭐ Ideal for literacy stations, intervention, morning tubs, or early finishers!

Each activity is designed to encourage meaningful practice, support skill mastery, and promote independence—without hours of prep time.The lit kit addresses your literacy needs by covering both Common Core and Texas Teks in the most engaging teacher friendly way!

The Lit Kit covers 19+ standards across reading literature, foundational skills, informational text, language, writing, and speaking and listening. It truly is the all in one! Use it in small group, whole group, read alouds, literacy centers, and literacy journals!

Each standard addressed comes with a student friendly "I can" poster.

The target grade level is second grade.

*also available in kinder and first grade*

Skills Covered in the Lit Kit:

I can ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

I can identify and read prepositional phrases.

I can describe the overall structure of a story

I can use information gained from the illustrations and words to demonstrate understanding of characters, setting or plot.

I can recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

I can use collective nouns.

I can distinguish between past, present, and future tense verbs.

I can use an apostrophe to form contractions.

I can correctly break apart written words by syllables.

I can use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words.

I can generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words.

I can use common syllabication patterns.

I can distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken words.

I know final e for representing long vowel sounds.

I can decode words with common prefixes.

What's Included?

10 Literacy Centers

10 "Lit Log" Activities (Literacy Notebook)

10 Comprehension Helpers

Story Elements Posters

Teaching Posters for Key Skills

Reading Response Story Sticks

Whole Group Summarizing Activity

Be sure to look at the preview file to see more of the Lit Kit!

Choose to buy the monthly sets of the Lit Kit, or get all 9 sets for a discounted price in a bundle.

The Lit Kit Second Grade Bundle

Kindergarten Lit Kit

The Lit Kit Kindergarten Bundle

First Grade Lit Kit

The Lit Kit First Grade Bundle

You can also check out The Lit Kit Blog Post to read more about The Lit Kit!

Thank You,

Reagan Tunstall and Kristina Grant