Summer Literacy Activities
Dowload hundreds of fun learning activities
Summer, while it can be fun and games, is also a great opportunity for children to retain their knowledge. The Literacy Activities Kit is aimed at combatting summer learning loss and preventing the gap in learning so that children may return to school with their knowledge intact and ready for new material.
Here you will find hundreds of literacy activities to help keep your child learning throughout the summer.
Kindergarten – 3rd Grade Level Activities:
Introduction & Assessments
- Introduction
- Assessment Reporting Sheet
- Assessments:
K-1 Learning Letters
K-1 Letters-Sound Matching
K-1 Say & Write Letters
K-1 Rhyming
K-1 Sound Blending
K-1 Syllables
K-1 High Frequency Words
2-3 Letters-Sound Matching
2-3 Learning Phonemes
- Median Phoneme Dominoes
- Medial Match
- Vowel Picture Sort
- Phoneme Quest
- Phoneme Counting Sort
- The Phoneme Game
- Make It, Find It, Keep It
- Word Family Zoom
2-3 Varient Correspondences
2-3 Syllables
2-3 Phrases
2-3 Chunked Text
2-3 High Frequency Words
4th – 6th Grade Level Activities:
Introduction & Assessments
- Introduction
- Assessment Reporting Sheet
- Assessments:
4-5 Variant Correspondences
4-5 Syllables
4-5 Morphemes
- Inflection Reflection
- Affix Sort
- Root Hoot
- Root Rap
- Affix Concentration
- Word Dissect
- Rooting for Meaning
4-5 Word Meaning and Analysis
- Word Clues
- Undercover Meanings
- All For One
- Ask A Word
- Word by Word
- Worn-Out Words
- Category Clues
- Category Creations
- Hink Pink Think
- Up With Words
- Choice Meanings
4-5 High Frequency Words
4-5 Phrases
4-5 Chunked Text
4-5 Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homographs
4-5 Reading Comprehension
- Write Cause or Effect
- Text Structure Sort
- Matter of Fact or Opinion
- More Incredible Inferences
- What’s the Purpose
- Answer Know-How
6th Grade Reading Passages
- Introduction
- A Strong Motive
- A Life Defined Not By Disability, But Love
- A God Who Remembers
- After 30 Years of Surgeries, Doctor and Patient Dance
- For A Boy With Little, Learning to love a Castoff Trombone
- Generosity
- I am Still the Greatest
- I Dream’d in a Dream
- I’m Nobody! Who are You
- The Ant and the Dove
- The Learning Curve of Gratitude
- The Crow and the Pitcher
- Print Your Own Medicine
- The Elephant and the Crocodile
- Outwitting Himself
- The Farmer and the Snake
- Song of the Witches
- Saying Thanks to My Ghosts
- Stars of the Summer Night
- The Farmer and the Stork
- The Soul of the Sea
- The Spider and the Fly
- When Mom is Right, And Tells Police They’re Wrong
- When You Are Old