Literacy Activities for Kids – Printables and More!

Looking for literacy activities for kids? This is a list of fun, engaging and effective literacy activities and printables for kids ages 3-8.

So if you are looking for lots of fun and easy to prep literacy activities to do with the kids, then this list is perfect for you.

Lots of fun literacy activities for kids. Everything from alphabet to sight words to writing to phonics to spelling and more!

Literacy Activities for Kids

Literacy is so important, but finding activities and printables that will engage students in fun and learning can be difficult.

That's why I took the time to gather all of the literacy activities on my site and others from some of my favorite websites.

This list consists of alphabet activities, name activities, phonics and phonological awareness activities, sight word activities, pre-writing activities, writing activities, handwriting activities and spelling activities.

This is going to be such a great resource for you when it comes to teaching literacy!

Literacy Activities

Back to School Trace, Color, and Write Sheets – Back to School Coloring Sheets

The Editable Apple Board Game Your Students Will Beg to Play Again

Directed Drawing Worksheets for Every Season

Back to School Directed Drawing Sheets With Fun Writing Prompts

Ocean Whale CVC Word Roll and Cover Phonics Game for Kids

Fish Find and Color the Letter Pages: Alphabet Worksheets for Preschool and Kindergarten

CVC Word Missing Sound Cut and Paste Worksheets

Find and Dot CVC Word Search Printable for Kindergarten

Summer Dot Letter Alphabet Worksheets for Preschool and Kindergarten

Ice Cream Missing Sound Cards – CVC Phoneme Isolation Activity

Summer Directed Drawing Sheets for Drawing and Writing Practice

Consonant Blend Dot Marker Worksheets – Segment and Blend Activity

Spring Dot Letter Alphabet Worksheet Mats

Butterfly Blend Word Find and Color Sheets for Early Readers

Ladybug CVC Word Find and Color Phonics Activity

Digraph Read Write & Color Worksheets for Phonics Lessons

Flower CVC Word Matchup: A Hands-On Phonics Activity for Spring

Easter Egg Trace and Color the Letter Worksheets: A Fun Alphabet Activity for Spring

St. Patrick’s Day Editable Board Game Worksheets: A Fun and Flexible Learning Game

Shamrock CVC Word Find and Color: A Fun St. Patrick’s Day Phonics Activity

Consonant Blend Unscramble Worksheets Phonics Activity

Spring Directed Drawing Sheets: Easy, Low-Prep Drawing and Writing Practice for Early Learners

Valentine’s Day Editable Board Game Worksheets for Literacy Skills

Easy to Use Alphabet Maze Worksheets

Penguin CVC Missing Sound Cards for Winter

Dot the Sounds CVC Segment and Blend Worksheets

Snowman Race and Trace Editable Board Game Worksheets

Gingerbread CVC Word Find and Color Sheets

Festive Winter Directed Drawing Worksheets

Turkey CVC Race and Trace Board Game

Fall Dot Letter Alphabet Sheets for Literacy Centers

CVC Word Unscramble Worksheets for Phonics Practice

Pumpkin Alphabet Board Game Worksheets for Fun Fall Letter Practice

Candy Corn Find and Color CVC Word Worksheets for Fall Literacy Centers

Pumpkin Editable Board Game Worksheets to Practice Skills in Fall

26 Alphabet Beginning Sounds Letter Tracing Worksheets

Apple Literacy and Math Worksheets

Apple Feed the Letter Alphabet Mats

Dot the Letter Strips: Learning Letter Recognition and Letter Sounds

Back to School Dot Letter Alphabet Worksheets

Editable Cut and Paste Build Your Name Worksheets

Play Dough Alphabet Mini Mats: A Hands-On Way to Teach Letters

Letter Sounds Fine Motor Tracing Lines for Hands-On Alphabet Practice

Popcorn Letter Tracing Cards: A Fun Way to Learn Letter Formation

Free Printable Beginning Sound Search and Trace Alphabet Worksheets

Alphabet Tracing Worksheets for Preschool and Kindergarten

Beginning Blend Clip Cards for Early Readers

Summer Ice Cream CVC Word Match-Up Activity

Blend Word Search and Trace Sheets for Reading Practice

Fish Consonant Blend Find and Color Sheets

Free Fish CVC Word Find and Color Sheets

Fish Beginning Sound Clip Cards

CVC Word Which Middle Sound Clip Cards

Blend Word Read, Write and Color Worksheets

What are Consonant Digraphs and How to Teach Them?

Editable Read, Write, and Color Worksheets

Flower Find and Color the Blend Sheets

Flower Find and Color the CVC Word Activity

Beginning Blends Word Sort Cut & Paste Worksheets

Unicorn Beginning Sounds Task Cards Alphabet Activity

Short Vowel Find and Color CVC Words Worksheets

Valentine’s Day Find and Color the Letter

CVC Words Read, Write, and Color Worksheets

Snowman Find and Color the CVC Word Sheets

Snowmen Beginning Sounds Task Cards

Feed the Gingerbread Boy Letters Beginning Sound Cards

Gingerbread Missing Sound Cards to Practice CVC Words

Gingerbread Find and Color the Letter: Uppercase and Lowercase Matching

Feed the Turkey Beginning Sound Task Cards

Turkey Find and Color the Letter Fall Worksheets

Silly Monster Beginning Sounds Task Cards

Pumpkin Missing Sound Cards for Fall

Pumpkin Find and Cover Beginning Sounds Alphabet Mats

Pumpkin Find and Color the Letter Sheets Alphabet Activity

Feed the Pumpkin Letters Beginning Sound Cards

Fall Letter Tracing Task Cards for Kids

Free Letter Tracing Printables for Alphabet Letter Formation

Apple Find the Letter Worksheets

Fall Apple Tree Find and Color the Letter Sheets

Alphabet Letter Sorting Worksheets

Alphabet Formation Letter Tracing Strips

Back to School Find and Color the Letter Sheets

Find and Color the Beginning Letter Sound Alphabet Worksheets

Tracing the Letters in My Name Worksheets

Alphabet Letter Sounds Roll and Cover Game

Super Fun Alphabet Roll & Cover the Letter Games

100+ Phonics Activities for Kids Learning to Read

Letter Formation Task Cards Alphabet Activity

Simple Prep Letter Formation Strips for Centers

Phonemic Awareness Activities: Free Printables for Kindergarten & 1st Grade

Summer Letter Tracing Task Cards

Letter Formation and Beginning Sounds Task Cards

Palm Tree Find and Color the Letters Sheets

Beginning and Ending Consonant Blend Missing Sounds Mats

Sun Find & Cover the Letter Mats

Digraph Missing Sound Mats

Fish Find and Color the Letters Sheets

Blend Words Missing Sound Worksheets for Phonics Practice

Digraph Missing Sound Worksheets for Phonics Practice

Fish CVC Missing Sounds Task Cards

Summer Phoneme Segmentation Mats for Phonemic Awareness

Spring Butterfly & Bee Find and Color Sheets

Digraph Sounds Sort Cut & Paste

Ending Blend Missing Sounds Cards

Earth Day Find and Cover the Letter Mats

Beginning Blends Missing Sounds Cards

Ladybug CVC Clip Cards for Spring

Spring Caterpillar Find and Color the Letter Sheets

Spring Letter Tracing Task Cards

Missing Final Sound CVC Word Mats Free Printable

Spring Flower Phonics Board Games

CVC Missing Letter Worksheets for Phonics Practice

Flower Missing Sounds Task Cards

Digraph Clip Cards for Kindergarten and First Grade

Rainbow CVC Board Game Task Cards

St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow Find and Color the Letter Sheets

Missing Middle Sound CVC Word Mats Free Printable

Free Printable Heart CVC Clip Cards for Valentine’s Day

CVC Word Sorting Worksheets – Cut and Paste CVC Worksheets

Heart Alphabet Game Task Cards

CVC Short Vowel Sounds Clip Cards

Letter Tracing Alphabet Task Cards

Alphabet Find and Cover the Letter Worksheets

Exciting Snowman Find and Color the Letter Mats Freebie

Snowball Rhyming Clip Strips

Snowman Adding Beginning Sounds Task Cards for Phonemic Awareness

Winter Snow Globe Phoneme Segmentation Cards

Snow Globe CVC Words Clip Cards Free Printable

Snowman Alphabet Letter Tracing Task Cards

Gingerbread CVC Word Building Cards

Gingerbread Alphabet Letter Recognition Task Cards

Alphabet Letter Worksheets – Alphabet Activity Pages

Gingerbread Phoneme Segmentation Mats for Phonemic Awareness

Alphabet Four in a Row Board Game – Beginning Sounds Game

Fall Leaf Rhyming Task Cards

Alphabet Beginning Sounds Sorting Worksheets

Fall Leaf Beginning Sounds Task Cards

Colorful Crayon Rhyming Puzzles

Pumpkin Alphabet Board Game Task Cards

Beginning Sounds Clip Cards with a Fall Candy Corn Theme!

Editable Pumpkin Theme BINGO Game

Candy Corn Find and Cover the Letter Mats for Kids

Alphabet Find and Trace the Letter Worksheets

Pumpkin Phoneme Segmentation Mats for Phonemic Awareness

Pumpkin Beginning Sounds Alphabet Task Cards

Fun Fall Pumpkin Rhyming Clip Strips

Alphabet Letter Tracing Task Cards

Apple Theme Letter Recognition Task Cards – Alphabet Find and Cover

School Theme Tracing Strips for Pre-Writing Practice

Editable Apple Theme Bingo Game

Check out these other awesome literacy activities too!

Here is a list of some of my favorite literacy resources.

Alphabet Activities

1. Alphabet Activities that Kids Love
2. Letter Sounds Listening Game

Handwriting

16. 25 Ways to Get Kids Writing

Spelling

17. Hands-On Spelling Activities
18. Fun Spelling Games and Activities

I hope this list of literacy activities and resources is very helpful to you and saves you lots of time when it comes to planning literacy instruction and literacy centers.