CVC words

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Elkonin boxes - work with CVC words to identify consonants and medial vowels, and learn to sound out words! Includes picture cards and movable alphabet, plus some bonus activities.

Blank Board Games - customize these games to any content you need to teach! These file folder games are perfect for preschool and elementary schoolers. Includes editable playing cards in JPEG and PDF format.

Rhyming Games - learning to hear rhymes and manipulate words is a cornerstone skill for early literacy. This 10-part set includes posters, bookmarks, worksheets, various games, and a file folder game with accompanying rhyming dictionary.

Reading Practice Sentences - do you have students who are struggling with sight word acquisition? Have them spend some time with these file folder games and those sight words will be mastered in no time. 3 different groups available.

I strongly believe that CVC words are the first words we should teach young readers. Why?

- there are a LOT of CVC words that are familiar objects / concepts to kids: mom, dad, dog, cat, hat, box, leg, fan, rug, etc.

- most CVC words are pure as far as phonics go: they can be easily sounded out. They're straight-forward; the letters act as we expect them to.

- by starting with CVC words, we teach students to look FIRST at the letters in a word, and base their next step on those letters. Figuring out a CVC word means thinking, not guessing.

I'm extremely confident in a product I made over the course of the last year (edits and updates and revisions galore!) that has everything you need to teach a young reader to read CVC words. It's fun, it's interactive, and flexible.