Valentine’s Day Ideas For School – 8 Literacy Activities
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Are you looking for Valentine’s Day ideas for school to use for a reading or language arts activity? In this post, I rounded up a variety of Valentine’s Day activities, worksheets, and printables that focus on reading skills from kindergarten through fifth grade.
These are all great for classroom or homeschool use and most are free!
Valentine's Day Classroom Ideas
Check out these literacy based Valentine's Day printables, worksheets, and activities that are perfect for elementary level students.
Valentine's Day Phoneme Grapheme Mapping Template
Grab this Valentine's themed phoneme grapheme mapping printable to use with any words that have up to 6 sounds.
You can use these with silicone bubble poppers, which students love. If you don't have those, just have them color in circles instead or use colored chips.
Click the button below to head to the freebies library where you can download this freebie.
Editable Heart Words Worksheets For Sight Words
You can use this editable heart words worksheet to practice high frequency words. To use this worksheet, you simply edit the focus word and phonemes, then print the page.
Grab this template from my shop and learn more about how to use the Heart Word Method to teach high frequency words here.
Kids Valentine Word Search - Fun and Educational
What kid doesn't love a good word search? This Valentine's Day themed word search would be a great activity for older elementary kids.
Valentine's Day Initial Sound Match-Up
This one is perfect for younger kids or students who need to practice initial sound discrimination. Students can practice their beginning sounds and phonemes in a hands-on way with these matching cards.
I Love Me Candy Jar: Printable Worksheet
This I Love Me Candy Jar worksheet is focused on self-love and self-esteem! Students write down 5 adjectives or attributes they like about themselves on pieces of candy, then color, cut, and paste to add them to the candy jar!
Free Mad Libs Valentine Printable For Learning Fun!
This friendly printable makes learning parts of speech easy, fun, and quick. Plus, your kids will be having so much fun, they’ll confuse this educational worksheet with a super fun activity!
Valentine's Day Alphabet Roll & Coloring Pages
Let’s celebrate Valentine's Day with an adorable owl alphabet activity sheet that will help your little ones practice their letters and numbers. This is a great activity for students learning to identify letters in both capital and lowercase.
20 Valentine Children's Picture Books You Will Love
Looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day book to read with your children? These Valentine children’s picture books range from sweet, sassy, and downright outrageous.
Those are the 8 literacy based Valentine’s Day activities I found for elementary level students. Hopefully, you can use one or more of these to do a fun literacy activity with your students for Valentine’s Day.
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Thanks Delly for the Val post!