Kindergarten Literacy Lessons

Explore our collection of free activities and lessons that support your literacy instruction, from exciting knowledge-building stories to engaging phonics activities.

Grades: Kindergarten

• Phonics Activities

  Engage young learners with engaging activities that build phonics skills and language development. Students learn about letters and sounds, read and match CVC and VCV words with images and practice changing initial and final CVC letters. These activities are ideal for whole class activities, transitions, circle time, or small group interventions!

• Switching Beginning Consonant Sounds: Level 1 (CVC)
• Switching Beginning Consonant Sounds: Level 2 (CVCC)
• Switching Middle Vowel Sounds: Level 1 (CVC)
• Switching Middle Vowel Sounds: Level 2 (CVCC)
• Switching Ending Consonant Sounds: Level 1 (CVC)
• Switching Ending Consonant Sounds: Level 2 (CVCC)
• Sort Them Out!
• Match Maker
• Sing The Letter Sounds
• Rap The Digraphs
• Make Your Own Letter Rap: Consonants
• Make Your Own Letter Rap: Vowels
• Make Your Own Letter Rap: Commonly Confused Letters
• Elkonin Boxes — How Many Sounds Are In the Word?
• What Consonant Sound Do You Hear?
• What Short Vowel Sound Do You Hear?
• What Digraph Starts the Word?
• What's the Word?
• Magic ‘e’

• Letter Recognition

  Students practice identifying letters. In 'What's the Letter?', letters from across the alphabet are randomized. In subsequent activities, the activities are focused on a progression of letters as they're taught in the Core Knowledge Language Arts curriculum. New lessons added in March 2026.

• What's the Letter?
• What's the Letter? (b, l, r, u, w, j, x, k, y, q)
• What's the Letter? (m, a, t, d, o, k, g, i, c)
• What's the Letter? (n, h, s, f, v, z, p, e)

• Skills Lessons

  Students are introduced to eight letter sounds and will provide the corresponding sound when presented with the following lowercase letters: ‘m’, ‘t’, ‘d’, ‘c’, ‘g’, ‘i’, ‘a’, ‘o’. Through oral language games, chaining exercises, and shared reading, students practice blending these sounds to form words. They also review previously learned letter-sound correspondences.

• Basic Code: Introduce /n/ › ‘n’
• Basic Code: Introduce /h/ › ‘h’
• Basic Code: Introduce /s/ › ‘s’
• Basic Code: Introduce /f/ › ‘f’
• Basic Code: Introduce /v/ › ‘v’
• Basic Code: Introduce /z/ › ‘z’
• Basic Code: Introduce /p/ › ‘p’
• Basic Code: Introduce /e/ › ‘e’

• Underdogs and Heroes: Stories

  Meet clever tricksters, brave adventurers, and unlikely heroes from around the world. Through read-alouds and discussions, students explore classic and cultural tales like “The Three Little Pigs” and “The Bremen Town Musicians.” They practice sequencing, identify story elements, and connect stories across texts. Want to learn more about Amplify CKLA? Explore the curriculum here!

• Domain 3 Overview
• Chicken Little
• The Three Little Pigs
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff
• The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
• The Bremen Town Musicians
• The Boy and the Violin
• Momotaro, Peach Boy
• The Story of Jumping Mouse, Part I
• The Story of Jumping Mouse, Part II
• The Quarrel of the Quails
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears
• Tug-of-War