Christmas Word Work

Christmas Word Work Centers – Literacy Fun for the Holiday Season! 🎄

10 Engaging Centers to Boost Phonics, Vocabulary, and Early Reading Skills

Get your students excited about literacy with this Christmas-themed Word Work Bundle! Perfect for Kindergarten and 1st Grade, this resource includes 10 low-prep, festive centers that target key phonics and grammar skills. Whether you use them in centers, small groups, or morning work, these activities combine holiday fun with focused skill-building.

🎁 What’s Included:

✔️ Letter Tracing Cards – Capital & lowercase letters to build fine motor skills and letter recognition.

✔️ What Comes Before/Next? – Task card center with recording sheet to practice alphabet sequence.

✔️ Initial Sound Clip Cards (12) – Fun phonics activity + recording sheet to reinforce beginning sounds.

✔️ Christmas Write the Room – 10 themed task cards + recording sheet to get students moving and decoding.

✔️ Syllable Sort – Sort 1- and 2-syllable words with 2 printable recording sheets.

✔️ Cut & Paste ABC Order – 2 printables for alphabetizing Christmas-themed words.

✔️ Parts of Speech Cards (10) – Nouns, verbs, adjectives center with 2 differentiated recording sheets.

✔️ Digraph QR Code Task Cards – Students scan to hear and sort real vs. nonsense words. Includes 2 recording sheets.

✔️ Word Scramble Cards (8) – Solve and record scrambled words with a Christmas twist.

✔️ Spin a CVC Word – Real vs. nonsense CVC word building game with 2 printables.

✔️ Making Words – 4 festive printables for manipulating letters and discovering new words.

✔️ Find & Dot – 10 worksheets for letters, vowels, CVCs, and digraphs using dot markers or crayons.

🎅 Skills Covered:

• Letter formation & recognition
• Beginning sounds
• Alphabetical order
• Syllables
• Parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective)
• Digraphs
• CVC word fluency
• Real vs. nonsense words
• Phonemic awareness
• Vocabulary building

💡 Perfect For:

• Literacy centers
• Small groups
• Independent work
• Early finishers
• Morning tubs
• Holiday review
• Sub tubs