Literacy Resources for Elementary Teachers
Discover engaging phonics activities, reading centers, writing ideas, sentence-building resources, and classroom-tested printables that help young learners become confident readers and writers.
Why Literacy Matters
Learning to read is one of the most important milestones in the primary classroom. Strong literacy instruction helps students build confidence, develop communication skills, and become independent learners. Whether you’re teaching letter sounds, phonics, reading comprehension, writing, or sentence structure, having engaging activities makes all the difference.
At Teach by Michelle Allison, you’ll find classroom-tested literacy resources designed specifically for Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade classrooms. Every activity has been used with real students and created to save teachers time while keeping learning meaningful and fun.
What You’ll Find
On this page, you’ll discover resources including:
- Phonics activities
- Reading centers
- Sentence-building activities
- Writing prompts
- Reading comprehension resources
- Literacy games
- Classroom printables
Whether you’re planning literacy centers, small-group instruction, independent practice, or whole-class lessons, you’ll find practical ideas that fit into a busy elementary classroom.
Be sure to check back often! New literacy activities, teaching ideas, and classroom resources are added regularly to help Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade teachers keep students engaged all year long.
Featured Resource
Engage your students with fun sentence scrambles and cut & paste sentence scrambles that double as meaningful handwriting practice and sentence structure review — perfect for phonics centers! Your students will love the Fix the Sentence practice!
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Looking for More Inspiration?
Looking for more inspiration? Browse all of our classroom-tested ideas for every stage of literacy instruction.