Description

Looking for first grade literacy center activities?  Decodable reading passages are a great way to reinforce reading skills for beginning readers.  Emergent readers need a lot of practice with decodable stories.

In these lessons, you will focus on one main phonics skill with a decodable story pdf that accompanies the main phonics skill.  These first grade literacy center activities will help your students feel confident reading connected text.

These lessons focus on short u word families.  They follow my Short A Decodable Reader Bundle and  Short I Decodable Readers, Short E Decodable Readers and Short O Decodable Readers.  These lessons include some short a, i, e, and o words and sight words.  The words are considered sight words if they do not follow a phonics pattern or if the phonics pattern has not yet been taught.  For example, ‘big’ would still be considered a sight word if short i words have not yet been taught.

These lesson plans were designed to be used with a small group, or for one-on-one tutoring.  They are based on Orton-Gillingham principles; explicit, purposeful, phonics-based, and contain a multisensory aspect.

These first grade literacy center activities can also be used as independent reading practice, partner reading, or homework. I love to send one home each week for my students to practice!

❤ Check out this Reading and Phonics Activities/ Short A Bundle for your other students to work on during small group literacy.

✨Here’s what’s included!

Lesson Details

• Lesson plans with step-by-step directions and what to say!
• 5 lessons, 4 focused on a short u word family, 1 review using all short u words
• Student notebook tabs and directions

Decodable Reading Passages

• Presented in 5 different formats; booklet, sheets, digital
• Printable in black & white or color
• Google slides
• Boom cards

✨The PDF that you download will include a clickable picture to redeem your Google Slides version and deck on the Boom Learning website.

❤ Your students will absolutely love these first grade literacy center activities and decodable reading passages.  Reading and phonics activities are soooo important in first grade, invest today and get your students begging for literacy center time!!

Check out this blog post all about how to fall in love with hands-on phonics activities!

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