3 Ways to Play CVC Word Games
1. CVC Scoot Game.
Play a scoot game as a whole class phonics game or as a small group reading intervention. If in a whole group, you can give each child a recording sheet, and place a cvc task card at each desk. The students then scoot from desk to desk, rotating all the way around the room, until the recording sheet is complete.
Play a scoot game as a whole class phonics game or as a small group reading intervention. If in a whole group, you can give each child a recording sheet, and place a cvc task card at each desk. The students then scoot from desk to desk, rotating all the way around the room, until the recording sheet is complete.
Here is a video of how I used task cards to play cvc word games in my reading intervention small groups.
Simply hang the cvc word game task cards all around the room - low enough for the kids to see them. Give them clipboards, a recording sheet, and send them around the room. When they find a cvc task card, they say the word, practice segmenting sounds, and write the cvc word independently. What a fun way for your active learners to practice phoneme segmentation. Phoneme segmentation is the ability to break apart the sounds in the words. For example, cat would sound like /c/ /a/ /t/.
3. CVC Assessment.
Using these cvc word games as an assessment is an excellent tool for progress monitoring. When giving assessments in kindergarten, I would call the students over individually. To speed along the process, I would flash the cvc task cards to them, say the word 2-3 times, and they would write the word on the recording sheet.
When doing this cvc word game individually with each student, I would get a true understanding of their phonemic awareness, blending skills, and writing skills. It truly is a valid kindergarten assessment for the middle to end of the year.
Conclusion
As you can see, there are many ways to play CVC word games, including CVC scoot games, CVC write the room, and as a fun way to assess the kids' ability to blend and segment words in kindergarten. In addition to these 3 uses for cvc word games, these cvc task cards are also great for building vocabulary and speech, a mini-lesson on phonemic awareness, a printable activity for reading intervention tutors, a parent volunteer activity, an early finisher activity, in a morning work tub, or as an phonics activity in a writing center.
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