Leaf Reading and Writing Activities

As kids go back to school it feels like fall even if it isn’t technically fall yet, and a great way to start the year or an early unit to have ready for when the leaves start to turn is activities having to do with leaves.

You can use these printable worksheets from Homemade Heather to talk about the parts of a leaf, photosynthesis, why leaves change color and log your own leaves from a leaf hunt, among other things.

There are writing activities involving leaves from Sunshine and Lollipops that you can download for free at Teach Simple. They include a creative writing exercise, a Venn diagram to compare two leaves, and other things to write about leaves you collect as a class, among other things.

Kids can draw and write about their own leaf with this writing activity from Yearn 4 Learning. I love the one shown above where the child turned the leaf into a bird.

Grab a set of printable leaf letters from Modern Preschool to use to decorate the classroom, help kids spell their names (or use for name cards at their desks) and other activities. And if you want to go full on leaf theme in your writing center, check out these leaf themed grammar and writing posters from Amazon.

I also love this fall leaf writing activity from Teach With Me. You can use leaf shapes and have kids write something or work on a list of things (what we love about fall, qualities of leaves, different kinds of trees, etc.) and hang them like falling leaves in the classroom.

There are tons of books written about leaves, and lots of activities you can do with them, such as:

• Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Elhert activities from Sounds Like Fun at Teachers Pay Teachers
• We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt by Steve Metzger, leaf hunt printable from Primary Playground
• Leaf Man by Lois Elhert unit study from Proverbial Homemaker

Need more fall themed literacy activities? Check out this post for literacy activities and this one for printable books with a fall theme.