Your students are learning many different literacy skills–identifying alphabet letters or clapping syllables or discovering beginning sounds. You can easily incorporate all of these skills and more using a fall theme in your preschool or pre-k classroom.
When your students engage in literacy activities focused on a common theme, they’ll begin to develop important oral language, literacy, and vocabulary skills. They can begin to build on what they already know to take their understanding even further.
Fall Literacy Activities for Preschool and Pre-K
These fun, hands-on literacy center activities and games that will help your students build vocabulary and develop critical emergent literacy skills like rhyming, syllables, beginning sounds and more. They will be playing and learning at the same time.
Fall Alphabet Identification Game
Identifying and naming letters is a foundation skill in literacy. This game includes both uppercase and lowercase versions in black and white or color. To play the game, students will take turns drawing a card, identifying the letter, and marking it on their recording sheet. This activity also includes two recording sheets, one for uppercase letters and one for lowercase letters. You can find this alphabet game in the Fall Activities Bundle.
Fall Rhyming
Rhyming is an important part of developing phonological awareness. Students can begin to hear sounds in words and determine which sounds are the same and which are not. Students will have fun finding their rhyming partners in this fun, large group game. The game is available in color and black and white in the Fall Activities Bundle.
Fall Beginning Sounds
Are your students learning to identify beginning sounds? Beginning sounds are an important part of developing phonological awareness skills. In this activity, students will identify the beginning sound of each picture and attach a clothespin with the correct letter to the corresponding picture. There is also a black and white recording sheet included with this activity. The beginning sounds activity is included in the Fall Activities Bundle.
Fall Syllables
Syllables are an important part of developing phonological awareness skills. Your students can begin to hear and identify syllables in spoken words. In this game, preschoolers identify the picture and the number of syllables in each word. They roll the action cube and perform the corresponding number of actions. Then they place the picture card in the pocket chart underneath the correct number of fingers. This game is part of the Fall Activities Bundle.
Fall Pocket Chart
The predictable text in this pocket chart set will help your students learn concepts of print such as left to right directionality, return sweep, one-to-one correspondence, and more. Help them point to the words as they read the chart. This activity is available in the Fall Theme Bundle.
Fall Word Cards and Mini-Word Charts
The printable word cards can be used to expand vocabulary in a pocket chart or on a word wall. These theme-related words and pictures will help students learn new words and build background knowledge for future reading and comprehension. The printable word charts are available in both black and white and in color. The word charts are great for individual word walls for students or as additions to the writing center. Both word cards and charts are available in the Fall Activities Bundle.
Fall Emergent Reader
The predictable text in this book is designed to support your emergent readers. Use this book to reinforce concepts of print such as words are separated by spaces, left to right and top to bottom, written words match spoken words, common sight words, and more. The emergent reader is available in the Fall Theme Bundle.
Fall Read and Write around the Room Activity
Print theme words, names, or other focus words on the different themed cards. Place them around the room for your students to find, read, and write! This fun read and write around the room activity is available in the Fall Activities Bundle.
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The Ultimate Pre-K Fall Theme Bundle
A bundle of 21 of my most popular fall resources, including math and literacy small group activities! Make learning fun with these hands-on resources!
