Using literacy centers in your classroom is a great hands on way to help students build reading, writing, and word work skills every day. You may choose to run your centers while you are busy working with small guided reading groups or assessing individual learners. You'll want to teach your students how to use the centers before starting a rotation.
These literacy centers for second grade students are worth a look!
Alphabetical Order Center
This ABC Order Center is perfect for independent practice. It comes with 30 word lists. Each list has a theme (e.g. sports, fall words, winter words, animals). There are 10 words in each list.
Contractions Activities
These Contractions worksheets, match game, crossword, word search, task cards, and quiz are perfect for 2nd grade students!
Use these grammar activities at a literacy center, for small groups, as morning work, or for independent seatwork.
Blends & Digraphs Activity
This center can help students create words using beginning blends and digraphs. The following blends and digraphs are included:
Blends: BL, CL, FL, GL, SL, PL, BR, CR, FR, TR, DR, PR, GR, SN, SM, SP, ST, SK, SW, SC, TW
Diagraphs: SH, CH, WH, TH, WR, KN, PH
Beginning Blends Activities & Posters
These worksheets and activities focus on all the consonant blends. There are picture sort cut and paste activities, Fill in the Blanks worksheets, and Write the Word worksheets included. There are also 160 picture & word match cards to use at a center. This resource also includes 20 posters!
Nouns, Verbs & Adjectives Game
This grammar game is great for teaching the Parts of Speech. Students try to guess the mystery word on the card. There are a few clues given about the word (whether it is a noun, an adjective or a verb, how many letters it has, what it starts or ends with, etc.). Students play in groups of three. One student reads while the other students guess.
Nonfiction Text Features Cut & Paste
Students cut out labels of text features and paste them into the boxes on the articles about dogs, cats, birds, and plants. This is an easy, engaging, hands-on way to help students identify nonfiction text features. It's ideal to use at a literacy center or for independent work!
Synonyms and Antonyms Activities
These Synonyms and Antonyms activities are perfect for Grade 2 students. The packet includes posters, worksheets, word lists, match games, task cards, a cut & paste activity, and crossword puzzles.
Long Vowel Teams Activities
These Vowel Teams activities can help teach and reinforce the sounds that vowel pairs make. This resource includes vowel teams worksheets, a match game, and posters. The pairs included are: AI, AY, OA, OE, OW, EA, EE, IE, UE, and UI.
Making Words Activity
How many words can you make out of the word leaves, butterfly, teachers, Christmas, or bookcase? Students can cut out the letters at the bottom of each page and rearrange them to make words!
Sentence Editing Activities
Have your students grab a task card and edit the sentence! They can write the corrected sentence in their notebooks.
Or check out this blog post for more sentence editing ideas!
Homophones Match Game
This match game is perfect for a winter literacy center! Students try to find the matching homophones.
You can find all of these resources individually in my online store or you can purchase them in this Literacy Centers Bundle.
Looking for resources for a slightly lower grade level?
You might want to check out my blog post on Literacy Centers for 1st Grade!