A literacy center helps children practice important early literacy skills, such as letter recognition, phonological awareness, and print concepts.
To create an engaging and educational preschool literacy center, you can include materials and activities that encourage children to explore letters, sounds, words, and stories.
This shelf houses both the math and literacy center materials. The rolled beige mats on the top right of the shelf are used for working with materials on the floor.
Basic Materials for the Literacy Center
- Letter Tiles
- Letter Beads
- Magnetic Letters
- ABC Matching Games
- Alphabet Bingo Game
- Letter Puzzles
- Letter Dice
- Interlocking Letter Cubes
- Displayed Alphabet
- Letter Builders (or this set)
- Picture-Word Cards
- Alphabet Pebbles
- Story Sequencing Cards*
- Old Cell Phones (remove battery)
- Old Computer Keyboard
- Magnet Story Board
- Puppets
- Alphabet Books
* Story Sequencing Cards are available in the Nursery Rhyme packets and Fairy Tale packets or Fairy Tale Sequencing.
What’s in the ABC Center
Here are a few examples of activities to place in the Literacy Center. Click each image to go to that activity.
I change the materials during the year, depending on what we are learning. To see the kinds of activities I include in the ABC/Literacy Center, refer to the following pages:
- Alphabet
- Phonological Awareness
- Bookmaking
- Literacy Printables
- I also include many literacy activities you will see on the Themes pages.
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