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School Literacy Activities

Are you looking for back-to-school resources for your preschoolers and kindergarteners? Check out these free printable School Literacy Activities!

From letter recognition to reading repetitive text, your young learners can learn and review a variety of skills with these themed resources.

At ABC’s of Literacy, you can also find resources such as alphabet posters and pre-reading tips to help you prepare for the beginning of the school year.

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These back-to-school activities can be used as morning work or literacy centers in any early elementary classroom or homeschool.

It’s easy to differentiate these resources to meet the needs of all your students so they are perfect for intervention or enrichment too.

Back-to-School Alphabet Activities:

These school-themed alphabet activities are a fun way for your preschoolers and kindergarteners to work on recognizing letters by their shapes and names.

Back-to-School Letter Maze Worksheets

Back-to-School Color By Letter

Back-to-School Letter Search Activity

Back-to-School Reading Resources:

With these school-themed reading activities, your young learners can work on reading repetitive text, sight words, and much more!

Back-to-School Cut and Paste Book

Books about Starting Kindergarten

Back-to-School Sight Word Activity

School Bus Number Words Activity

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Back-to-School Writing Activities:

From writing strokes to letter formation, these school-themed writing resources will help your kids develop pre-writing and beginning writing skills.

Back-to-School Tracing Worksheets

Back-to-School Write the Room

School Letter Writing Mats

More Back-to-School Resources:

If you are looking for more resources for the beginning of the school year, you may also like these worksheets and posters.

Back-to-School Preschool Worksheets

Printable Alphabet Posters

Can These Back-to-School Activities be Reused?

Most of the resources such as the letter search and sight word activities can be reused.

You may want to print the printables for those on white card stock and laminate them so your kids can use them over and over.

A few of the activities like the color-by-letter worksheets are reproducible so you can make as many copies as you need for your students.

When Can These Back-to-School Resources be Used?

With the fun school theme, these back-to-school activities can be used any time of the year.

You can differentiate these resources to meet the needs of all your young learners.

In the sight word activity, for example, you may start with just a few cards at the beginning of the year.

As your kids learn the words, you can add more cards to the activity for them to practice throughout the school year.

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You May Also Like These Morning Tubs for Preschool:

Are you looking for a new morning routine? These themed Morning Tubs are an entertaining and engaging way to start the day.

This year-long bundle of morning work includes 120 independent literacy and math activities that are perfect for children in preschool or kindergarten.

Click on the picture below to learn more about the activities included in this bundle!