Description
Bring festive fun to your December lesson plans with these Christmas Literacy Activities for 1st Grade! This no-prep packet includes 39 Christmas worksheets designed to strengthen essential literacy skills. With a mix of phonics, grammar, alphabet work, and sight words, students stay engaged while practicing foundational reading and writing skills. Perfect for morning work, literacy centers, early finishers, and sub plans during the busy holiday season.
These printable pages feature familiar Christmas symbols—Santa, elves, presents, lights, and more—to create a joyful learning experience that doesn’t sacrifice academic value. Just print and go!
Skills Covered in the Christmas Literacy Packet:
- Letter recognition and alphabetical order
- Syllables and rhyming
- Phonics: long vowels, blends, and digraphs
- Grammar: nouns, verbs, adjectives, punctuation, capitalization
- Descriptive and sentence writing
- Sight word fluency
What’s Included:
Alphabet Activities
- ABC Maze (Uppercase Letters)
- ABC Maze (Lowercase Letters)
- Christmas ABC Order
- ABC Order
Phonemic Awareness
- Christmas Syllables
- Rhyming Words
Phonics
- CVCE Sound It Out
- Roll and Write (Long Vowel Words)
- Beginning L Blends
- Beginning R Blends
- Beginning S Blends
- Christmas L Blends
- I Spy Words with Blends
- Beginning Digraphs
- Color by Digraph
- Ending Digraphs (2 Pages)
Grammar and Beginning Writing
- Noun Sort
- Christmas Nouns
- Verbs
- Colorful Lights (Nouns and Verbs)
- Make It Plural
- Christmas Adjectives
- Describe an Elf
- Describe Santa
- Santa Prepositions
- Christmas Sentences (2 Pages)
- Christmas Punctuation
- Christmas Capitalization
Sight Words
- Trace It, Box It, Write It (8 Pages)
How to Use the Christmas Literacy Activities:
- Daily morning work throughout December
- Literacy centers and small group practice
- Independent tasks for early finishers
- Sub plans and homework packets
No prep required—just print and teach!
Why Teachers Love It:
- Covers key 1st grade literacy standards
- Fun and festive Christmas themes increase student engagement
- Activities are easy to use independently
- Ideal for flexible classroom use in a busy month
- Saves time with ready-to-go printables
This Christmas Literacy Activities packet gives your students meaningful practice in a festive format. Build literacy skills and classroom joy all December long with this collection Christmas worksheets!
