I love literacy stations!
Lowercase Letters with Snap Cubes
Students use the connecting cubes to build the lowercase letters! Great fine motor practice! Check them out HERE!
Lowercase Letters with Erasers or Wiki Sticks
I love using these letter mats with my students! I print them on brightly colored astro-brights paper, and then I can use so many different kinds of manipulative to make the letters. I use seasonally appropriate mini erasers (thanks Target!), wiki sticks, glass gems, small shapes, the sky is the limit!
ABC Matching Mats
Alphabet Puzzles
Students use ABC puzzles to practice matching upper and lowercase letters, or putting letters in order. We ordered most of these from Lakeshore!
Magnet Letters
ABC Books
Students practice identifying letters and reading the variety of ABC books we have.
Missing Letter Stamps
This is a new one! Students use letter stamps to fill in the missing letters on the chart. You could switch it up and do all uppercase or all lowercase (but make sure you have the right stamps!). Here is the FREE Missing Letter Stamp paper!
Build-a-Letter
Students use the shape blocks to build their letters. Go HERE to find this awesome freebie courtesy of Confessions of a Homeschooler.
Write the Room
Students use the paper with a clipboard and walk around the room to write words/names they recognize. My rule is they have to be able to read it back to me! Look HERE for the FREE Write the Room paper!
Read the Room
Students find words in the classroom that begin with every letter of the alphabet. Go HERE for the FREE worksheet!
Digging for Letters!
I filled a bin with rice and toss in some foam letters (I used dollar store foam ABC puzzles). Students reach in and dig to find the ABC’s. As they find the letters they color in the matching letter on the paper. The kids really enjoy searching through the sand! Click HERE for the FREE paper!
Handwriting with White Boards
Students use white boards to practice writing their letters correctly. You could go high tech and do it on the SmartBoard!
Big Book Center
Students find the letter of the week (this week it is Yy) in our laminated magazines and big books. They circle the letters and then erase with a tissue when done. As the year progresses we move to Sight Words and even Punctuation marks!
Magazine Words
Students find words starting with the different letters of the Alphabet and cut them out of magazines. This one keeps them busy for a long time! Click HERE to grab the freebie!
ABC Order
Students can use magnetic letters to put letters in ABC order. So easy! Find this resource HERE!
I hope you got some new great ideas for your Literacy Stations!
You may also like my posts on my literacy station organization, Word Building activities for iteracy stations, or Sight Word activities for literacy stations!
Some great ideas thanks for sharing. Will be using a few of them!
I am working with some kinders on letter identification during interventions. I am definitely going to use the digging for letters and the stamp ideas. Thanks!
Jana
Thinking Out Loud
Love the build a letter with pattern blocks idea. Will use with my preschoolers.
Great post!
Awesome ideas!! Thanks!
Thank you so much for allowing the download of the alphabet block pattern pages. I love these. I have PK3 and my kids will love doing this. I adore your other ideas too and will be using many of them. Great blog!! Thank you!
Thanks so much!!
This is my first year teaching kindergarten (as a former 2nd grade teacher, kindergarten is so different!) and am constantly on the search for great station ideas. Thanks so much for sharing!!
Oh my gosh! Thank you so much. I'm trying to plan more hands on and even less paper work than last year for my kinders. These are such great ideas. Some I forgot about and you've jogged my memory. Bless you
Thank you for sharing! Definitely using these in my K4 classroom. š
Thank you for the great ideas!