Reading Center Activities Teaching Resources
Do you need new classroom reading center activities to kick-start literacy learning in your classroom? Explore a collection of thousands of reading activities, games, worksheets, printables, and more that have been created by teachers specifically for you to use in your literacy centers!
What Are Reading Centers or Literacy Centers?
Haven't set up centers in the classroom before? That's OK! The teachers who review every resource on the Teach Starter site before it ever makes it to your subscription have put their expertise together to create this guide to setting up reading centers to ensure your students get the most out of them!
First things first: What are centers? These spots in the classroom are designated spaces where your students can work individually or in small groups practicing decoding, blending, reading comprehension, and any other needed literacy skills. You might think of reading centers or literacy centers as practice areas for students to take the concepts you've been teaching and start tackling them independently.
If you need to differentiate instruction, classroom centers for reading can engage mixed-ability groups or academically-similar groups. You can also use your centers to focus on particular reading areas such as phonics, fluency, vocabulary, or comprehension.
Centers are typically student-led and great for diverse learners to work at their own levels and paces. When group work is involved, the groups are limited to no more than four students.
What to Include in a Reading Center
Just as learning centers can be set up for various subjects (check out our math center activities while you're here!), reading centers can include various activities! That's why you'll find that our teacher team of experts has created everything from task cards to sorting activities to include in your reading centers.
Explore the collection to find the right activities for your students and your centers!
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SPLAT! Phoneme Substitution Game - Short I Words
A set of 30 task cards to practice substituting initial and final phonemes in short i words.
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ABC Order Practice Worksheet
A worksheet to practice putting a list of words in alphabetical order.
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Roll and Read – Sight Words – Grade 1
A fun game for students to practice reading sight words.
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Roll and Read – Rhyming Words
A fun game for students to practice reading rhyming words.
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A Rhyme a Dozen - Matching Game
A concentration style card game that can be used to consolidate students' knowledge of rhyming words.
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Grade 6 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 1) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 6 magazine.
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Build It! Letter Sounds Task Cards
Practice identifying and writing the beginning sounds of words with this set of 28 task cards.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - BEFORE
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “before” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - FAST
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “fast” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - FIVE
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “five” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - FIRST
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “first” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - BOTH
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “both” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - WORK
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word ”work” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - BUY
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “buy” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - BEEN
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “been” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - DOES
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “does” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - FOUND
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “found” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - DON'T
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “don’t” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - SIT
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “sit” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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Inferencing Activity for Young Learners
Six mini posters with accompanying questions to use with young learners when teaching inferencing.
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Initial Sound Clip Cards (Version 1)
A hands-on activity to practice initial sounds.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - GOES
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “goes” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - ALWAYS
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “always” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - COLD
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “cold” from the Second Grade Dolch sight words list.
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