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Fall Literacy Activities

August 28, 2015 • 6 Comments

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The season will soon be changing!  Here are some great literacy activities to fit the new season full of falling leaves, apples and pumpkins.

Lots of fall literacy activities to work on learning the alphabet, teaching a child their name, reading, book lists and more!

Fall Literacy Activities

Alphabet Activities

alphabet activities: letter harvesting

 

My kids LOVE to play this game.  Letter Harvest is not only full of alphabet learning but it is a great gross motor activity too.

A super easy game involves collecting the letter leaves scattered in the yard.

No Time for Flashcards shares a Leaf Letter Match that would be great for a busy bag and it builds fine motor skills.

Little ones love paint.  Try Q-tip painting the letters of the alphabet with a fall theme from 1+1+1=1.

alphabet games and activities: fun scarecrow letter patch activity from growingbookbybook.com

Make a letter scarecrow for lots of fall fun.

Turn a pumpkin into an ABC pumpkin and then do these five fun activities from The Imagination Tree. (pictured top left)

Gross motor meets fall alphabet practice in this activity from Toddler Approved.

I love this fall tree alphabet idea from Mom Inspired Life. (pictured middle left)

Learning Your Name

A fun Thanksgiving themed craft to practice learning your name from growingbookbybook.com

Decorate the room with an adorable feather letter turkey!

Pumpkins are full of seeds.  Did you know that you can dye the seeds?  Fun-a-Day shows us how and then uses them to create a learning your name project. (pictured top middle)

Collect leaves and use them for this Leaf Name Project from The Pleasantest Thing.

alphabet learning apple tree

Apple stamp name trees combine art and literacy.

Phonics

Learn Play Imagine shares an apple tree word family activity. (pictured top right)

Build CVC words on apple trees with this free printable from Life Over C’s

Singing and Rhyming

A fall themed song and activity perfect for preschoolers and from growingbookbybook.com #playfulpreschool

The Leaves on the Trees is set to the tune of The Wheels on the Bus.  Plus, there is an additional literacy activity to compliment the song.

5 Golden Autumn Leaves is a cute song and includes FREE printable leaf finger puppets from Picklebums.

Books

Emergent and early reader printable books for kids are perfect for beginning readers from growingbookbybook.com

Do you have a new reader?  Download these FREE fall printable books for some fresh reading material.

These are a few of our all time favorite fall books.

We love Lois Ehlert’s work.  One of our favorites is Leaf Man.  She also has Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf and Nuts to You!

The Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy Tufari may remind you a bit of The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle.  Squirrel is too busy collecting food for winter and can’t be distracted by anything else.

You can also enjoy these cozy reads for fall from KC Edventures or these fall ABC books Fantastic Fun & Learning.

Writing and Spelling

Playdough to Plato uses a pumpkin spice salt tray for lots of pre-writing practice or for older children to write sight words or spelling words.

Try this fall word bump activity from This Reading Mama.  It works with any spelling list.

Create a fall color book with this neat bookbinding idea from The Educators’ Spin On It.

For more fall literacy fun, check out our Fall Literacy Unit for Preschoolers.

fall themes for preschol

Enjoy spending the fall with these seasonal literacy activities!

 

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About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

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  1. Monica @HappyandBlessedHome.com says

    September 3, 2015 at 11:37 am

    Love this! Featuring at Family Fun Friday! http://www.happyandblessedhome.com/category/family-fun/

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    • Jodie Rodriguez says

      September 3, 2015 at 3:30 pm

      Thank you so much Monica!

      Reply
  2. Heather H says

    September 2, 2015 at 2:43 pm

    What a great roundup! I see a bunch I want to try with my girls. I’m glad I found your link on Everything Early Childhood.

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    • Jodie Rodriguez says

      September 3, 2015 at 3:31 pm

      I hope you have fun with the girls doing these activities Heather!

      Reply
  3. Danielle says

    September 2, 2015 at 8:05 am

    Thanks so much for sharing my fall tree alphabet game!

    Reply

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