If you’re looking for activities to help you leap into spring, then you’ll love my spring literacy resources for reading and writing! Students will eagerly await reading group and literacy center time if they know that these fun and engaging resources await them. When the snow melts, you’ll be happy that your classroom is filled with such a great variety of activities. Your class will enjoy building reading fluency and comprehension skills, as well as showing their creative side with the writing tasks.
Students can work independently, with a partner, or in a small group on the spring activities that you’ll find in my store. The low prep resources will keep you stress free as you head into the last few months of school!
Spring Word Work
Practicing phonics, decoding, fluency, and vocabulary skills are crucial to a child’s reading foundation. Thanks to the different spring-themed word work activities, your students will have great resources to help them practice and you won’t hear complaints from your class when it’s center time.
NOTE: St. Patrick’s Day is included in this list, even though I’m fully aware it’s not officially in the spring season. I include it in my spring planning, so I’m sharing it here with everything else spring. 🙂
Word Work & Literacy Activities
Spring Word Work & Literacy Activities are perfect for independent or small group activities. Students will use word sorts, searches, and “roll & read” games to gain skills that will help them “spring” into a reading routine!
St. Patrick’s Day Word Work & Literacy Activities This resource is sure to bring the luck of the Irish to your classroom! Keep students engaged with this assortment that enables students to practice parts of speech, mix and match phrases, make words, and enhance vocabulary skills. Although St. Patrick’s Day is March 17th, the activities will definitely carry you through an entire week. You can access the printable or digital resource depending on your classroom needs.
The Holiday Word Work & Literacy Activity Bundle is ideal if you’re looking for the same resources but on a larger scale. You’ll find themed activities from Spring, Valentines, St. Patrick’s Day, Halloween, Christmas and more with this bundle at a bargain price.
Daily Phonics Word Work
(NOTE: Be sure to teach your students the phonics and spelling patterns before assigning the Daily Phonics Word Work activities.)
Daily Phonics Word Work March-April includes 40 pages of activities to help your class identify beginning/ending sounds, short/long vowels, consonant blends, digraphs, vowel teams, and r-controlled vowels. You’ll love seeing your student’s reading automaticity increase as they use the phonic patterns in this resource.
Daily Phonics Word Work- May-June Keep the learning going with the May through June activities that help students build phonics skills and fluency.
Daily Phonics Word Work Mini Bundle will help you on the downhill slope from January to June. Packed with learning resources for each month during the second semester, this smaller bundle is a great choice to help wind up your school year.
Daily Phonics Word Work Bundle Don’t stop the word work when Spring is over! Pick up the yearlong bundle to help your students practice blends, digraphs, and vowel sounds throughout each season of the year.
Spring Fluency
Educators know that reading fluency is vital to comprehension. Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression. When students struggle with word recognition and fluency, they have difficulty understanding what they read. With practice in accuracy and decoding skills, children will become more fluent readers which leads to greater comprehension. My spring fluency games are an excellent way to help build more confident readers.
Accuracy “Splash” Fluency Game is designed for kids who struggle with visual discrimination and “guess” words. Students will develop skills with this game that help them decide: “Does is look right, sound right, and make sense?”
Accuracy Clover Game Students will love this St. Patrick’s Day themed resource that helps break the words apart and build fluency. You won’t have any problems keeping young learners engaged and on task as they play this lucky clover game.
The Accuracy Decoding and Fluency Game Bundle is filled with fun activities to practice skills to increase your students’ fluency and word recognition. This bundle has seven resources which offer you a wide range of choices for a discounted price.
Spring Poetry
Poetry is wonderful way to reinforce visualization skills, comprehension, and vocabulary development. Use these St. Patrick’s Day poems in the final week leading up to spring!
My Lucky Shamrock St. Patrick’s Day Poem + Activities This narrative poem about a not so lucky shamrock will keep your students on task while they build comprehension. This poem is great for practicing retelling skills. Students can work independently, with a partner, or a in a small group.
A Leprechaun Surprise St. Patrick’s Day Poem + Activities Another great way to celebrate the season of green is with this fun resource. Students have the flexibility to work independently, with a partner, or a in a small group.
The St. Patrick’s Day Poetry and Activity Bundle is filled with three poems with corresponding activities to practice fluency and comprehension skills. St. Patty’s Day wouldn’t be complete without lucky leprechauns and shamrocks. Help turn your readers into fluent poets with this bundle!
Spring Writing
How many times have you heard the moans and groans when you announce that it’s time for writing? There’s no reason to dread the daily writing block anymore, though. Help your class develop a love for writing using my spring writing activities. The roll-a-story activities will build student creativity and help break up the writing process with visual organizers. Students will develop a love for writing as they create stories with the roll of a dice!
Roll-a-Story Writing Activity March March winds will blow this writing activity into your classroom and help jumpstart your students’ creativity. Students won’t have their heads in the clouds when they know they have this fun activity awaiting them. Students will use a graphic organizer to guide their creativity and the story starter boards to plan their masterpiece. The roll of a dice will reveal character, setting, and problems for these silly stories.
Roll-a-Story Writing Activity April Another writing resource focused on April Fool’s Day, Easter, and April weather will bring excitement to your writing centers or daily writing activities.
Roll-a-Story Writing Activity May Kids will enjoy the spring themed writing activity as well as a zoo themed activity to help with everyday writing.
The Complete Roll-a- Story Writing Activity Bundle If your class enjoyed the spring roll-a-story activities, they will be thrilled to find out the fun doesn’t end when the flowers stop blooming! This bundle has story starters to keep your students busy for all twelve months of the year! Keep the love of writing going during the summer months by sending take home activities to help your kids roll the dice to create characters, setting, and problems.
“Goodbye, Snow… Hello, Spring!” Poem and Activities This free resource features an original poem and a blank page for your students to write their own “Goodbye Poems.” It’s the perfect activity for a literacy center activity or for sending home. Learn more about this activity here!
Spring Partner Poems
If you’re looking for another way to build fluency, poems for two voices are a proven way to help boost reading confidence. Each of my poetry activities include poems that provide a back and forth reading structure. Students will be engaged as they explore character perspective and change their voices to match the expression of the different characters. They’ll have so much fun reading that they won’t even realize that this is an assignment. Be sure to enrich your literacy block with these resources that help increase visualization skills, retelling, character analysis, and provide evidence-based responses!
Wake Up Grizzly Bear Spring Partner Poem + Activities Students will love partnering up to read this back-and-forth poem and then completing the follow up activities. The included resources will help your class build understanding of the character’s perspective and have fun using different voices to show the feelings of porcupine and grizzly bear.
Watch Out For Leprechauns St. Patrick’s Day Partner Poem + Activities This packet includes a partner poem, activity pages, and questions that are differentiated for student reading levels. Children will have a blast reading like a leprechaun and trying an Irish accent in this poem! Also included are three follow-up activities to help with comprehension.
Groundhog Grumbles – Groundhog Day Partner Poem + Activities Instead of the same tired activity on February 2nd, why not try something new? Don’t just have your students predict whether the groundhog will see his shadow, have them use reader’s theater and poetry to build skills that will last long past winter!
Big Easter Egg Hunt Easter Partner Poem + Activities Don’t keep hunting for activities for your literacy block! This resource will help your students become more confident readers and increase comprehension.
Seasonal Poetry Bundle – Partner Poem + Activities Save time and money by scooping up this bundle of four of my spring and summer-themed partner poems. You’ll keep your ELA Block an exciting time of day that your students will look forward to with these activities. Students will use poetry mind pictures, character feelings, and retelling to build comprehension and fluency with the poetry resources.
Spring Mentor Texts
Teaching sensory language is so much easier when you use these resources! I love using mentor texts and poetry to help convey messages to children. Sharing literature with students helps them develop much needed skills while developing their own love of different genres. Poetry is wonderful way to reinforce visualization skills, comprehension, and vocabulary development.
Sensory Language – Mentor Text Activity “Where Butterflies Grow” by Joanne Ryder, is a wonderful mentor text to teach sensory language. Students will learn descriptive words that enhance each of their five senses. Many of the activities can be used without the mentor text, too. Learn more about this activity here!
Spring Ahead With These Resources
Spring is the season of new things and is a great time to pick up resources to bring your classroom to life. Keep the love of learning growing the entire season with my spring resources that can found in my website shop and TpT store. You can also visit my blog to explore and learn about these spring-themed lessons and activities!
FREE Task Cards for Spring
Complete the form below to access a FREE set of spring-themed fluency task cards and help your students practice reading fluency skills. Each task card targets a specific fluency skill and helps students improve their pace, phrasing, expression and attention to punctuation. These task cards are great for morning work, partner work, small group warm-ups, and extra at-home practice.
