Get your child reading with these CVC worksheets and word family activities. Designed to support phonics in kindergarten, these cvc worksheets, cvc word games, cvc book, and assessments include everything you need bridge your instruction from letter sounds to phoneme segmentation and building fluency.
CVC word families, also known as phonograms, are groups of words that share the same rime, but have different onsets. An onset is the initial sound of a word, and a rime is the vowel and consonant(s) that follow. The et word family, for example, would consist of words such as wet, get, set, bet, jet, etc.
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| Free cvc worksheets |
After learning to identify and produce letter sounds, exposure to these cvc worksheets and cvc activities will help build phonological awareness and decoding skills - both very important for reading fluency in kindergarten and first grade.
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| Free cvc worksheets, decodable book, word cards, and assessments |
As a kindergarten teacher, I focused heavily on phoneme segmentation and word families at the start of the second half of the school year. More intense word family instruction would then be carried throughout the first grade. I created these CVC word family printable resources for you to implement weekly word family instruction and assessments. Each word packet focuses on 5 words within the selected word family.
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| Free cvc word family printable book |
Here is a look at my CVC Word Family packets, including CVC worksheets, a decodable book, cvc games, and assessments Every
CVC printable packet comes with everything you need to integrate onsets and rimes.
The cvc decodable books are excellent for guided reading, mini-lessons, and shared reading lessons. The text is large, which helps with concepts of print, such as tracking print and pointing to the words. The pictures are simple and clear of clutter, to help the readers apply reading strategies, such as using the pictures when stuck on a word.
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| Search and highlight the cvc words |
Revisit the decodable books throughout the week for activities such as, highlighting the cvc words, partner reading, and reading to self during Daily 5. At the end of the week, I allowed my students to take the books home to read to their family, or keep them in their book boxes in the classroom.
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| Build reading fluency with these cvc books |
The word family picture cards were displayed on my ELA focus wall at the start of each week. You can cut each word card out and display them in a pocket chart, or simply laminate the two sheets together to display an anchor chart of the 5 weekly focus words. I liked the anchor chart display, because I'd simply hole punch each week's display and keep them all on one binder ring. That way, I didn't have to search through files each week - I'd just simply turn to the next word cvc word family :)
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| Free CVC word cards |
After introducing the word cards, the kids would record the words on the My ___ Word Family House cvc worksheet.
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| Free cvc worksheet to record cvc words |
Most of the time, I'd have them take this home on Mondays. This way, they could show their family what the words are for the week - just in case the parents missed the newsletter ;)
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| CVC pictures and word cards |
These cvc picture and word cards are great
for a pocket chart activity, early-finisher task, morning activity
box, or take-home activity. Each word card has the same color border as it's matching picture - excellent for self-checking center.
The "Write and Illustrate" cvc worksheet is good for shared writing, mini-lessons, centers, and homework. Students pick any one of the 5 focus words, write it in the box at the top, then write a sentence using that word. When done, they draw a picture to match the sentence.
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| cvc worksheets and activities for kindergarten and first grade |
The leveled "Sound Boxes" cvc worksheets are excellent for phoneme segmentation. Students say the word, tap the sound boxes to segment the word, then write the word. They can also use letter stamps, or rainbow write the words.
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| Printable cvc sound boxes to practice phoneme segmentation |
The tracing sound boxes, also included in the cvc worksheet packets, are for those who need extra support.
"Write the Word" is great a great cvc worksheet for homework, morning work, exit tickets, etc. I would often set this out as a quick review, mid-week, when students would come in from recess.
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| Printable worksheets to practice writing cvc words |
Next, is the "Build a Word" activity. This cvc worksheet is one of my students' favorites cvc activity. Students use the
letter
tiles
on
the
right
to
make 3 words
from
the cvc
word
family. When done,
they
draw a picture
to
represent one
of
the words,
and either a partner
or
the
teacher
has
to
“guess
the picture”. This reinforces using detail when illustrating, and the kids get a kick out of trying to draw SO good that they don't even have to write the word.
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| cvc worksheets |
Word Family Match-up goes beyond the 5 focus cvc words for the week. This cvc worksheet builds visual discrimination, phoneme segmentation, and accuracy. Students read the cvc words, then draw a line to the word on the right.
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| cvc worksheets and activities |
Finally, at the end of the week, I would assess each student individually on the 5 Word Family focus words. You could administer the cvc reading assessment as a whole class, but I liked one-on-one assessments to assure accuracy, and watch/listen to their thoughts (mumbles) as they practiced phoneme segmentation and blending.
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| cvc worksheets include weekly assessments |
For the cvc writing assessment, the teacher says the word for each picture, then the student writes the word independently. There is a section for notes at the bottom - great to communicate/document and concerns or patterns observed.
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| cvc worksheets include a weekly writing assessment |
These printable cvc worksheets and activities are included in EACH of my CVC Word Family packets. You can purchase each one individually, or get everything for 17 word families in my
BUNDLE.
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