April Math and Literacy Centers for 1st Grade Differentiated Centers

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These April math and literacy centers are perfect for the centers in first grade! Each April math and literacy center is differentiated for below, on level, and above level students, so while there are five literacy centers, 1 editable sight word center, and seven math centers included, it’s like you’re getting so much more. If you’ve every wondered how to meet the needs of all of your students during centers, this is it!

Each April center has visual instructions for all three levels to promote independence. Each task is set up in a similar way, only the numbers or task change, so students will feel like they are completing the same center.

April Literacy Centers included:

At the Pond Sorts

• Long and short vowels
• Vowel teams ay and ai or ee and ea
• Diphthongs oi and oy or ow and ou
• Glued sounds ng and nk

Word Work Match Up

• CVCe words
• R-controlled vowels
• Diphthongs

Spin and Color

• FLOSS rule double consonants
• Long and short vowels
• Sounds of y

Sprouting Words

• Beginning blends
• Beginning trigraphs
• Multisyllable words

Building sentences

• Nouns and verbs
• Nouns, verbs, and adverbs
• Developing their own sentences with four parts of speech

Sight Word Spin and Write – EDITABLE

April Math Centers included:

Flower Power

• Addition to 15
• Subtraction story problems
• Story problems with missing addends

Hopping for Equations

• Subtraction within 12
• Missing Addends
• Double-digit addition; no regrouping

Bunny Equations

• Addition to 18
• Adding 3 numbers
• Subtracting tens from tens

Spring Problems

• Subtraction to 12
• Making ten to add
• Adding a single digit number to a double digit number

Froggy Numbers

• Before and after numbers
• Place value to 100
• Place value to 999

Telling Time

• Time to the Hour
• Time to the hour and half hour
• Time to the fifteen minutes

Counting Coins

• Counting dimes
• Drawing coins to represent an amount
• Money story problems