CVC Words Teaching Resources
Make teaching CVC words in the primary grades easier with our extensive collection of CVC word lists, CVC word worksheets, CVC word activities, and more. Find kindergarten CVC activities for reading centers and teacher-created resources to help students with reading CVC words, plus a range of interactive and hands-on resources for your phonics instruction.
This comprehensive collection of CVC words teaching resources from Teach Starter's teacher team has curriculum-aligned options to help you cut down on the time-consuming task of lesson planning and help your elementary class meet both Common Core and state-level standards. Many of the digital and printable teaching resources in the collection are easily editable, you can differentiate instruction to meet students' individual needs.
What Are CVC Words?
Has it been awhile since you taught this section of the ELA curriculum? Our teacher team has a quick refresher course for you!
Short for consonant-vowel-consonant, CVC words are a building block of early literacy. Learners read CVC words by blending the individual phoneme sounds together.
Examples of some CVC words a student may learn in kindergarten include cat, bed, gum, and pig. As students gain literacy skills, they move on to CCVC words (consonant consonant vowel consonant) and CVCC words (consonant vowel consonant consonant).
Four-Letter CVC Words
Wait, if it's CVC, how can there be four-letter words? Ah, the English language is such a trickster!
Despite the pattern of consonant-vowel-consonant, not all CVC words are three letters long. The vowel portion of a CVC word refers to the vowel sound rather than a singular letter. Keep, for example, is a four-letter CVC word. We'll keep it around even if it does break the rules!
What Is the CVC Word Rule?
The CVC word rule commonly taught to students in the primary grades can help them develop their spelling skills in later elementary school. If the last three letters of a one-syllable word follow a CVC pattern, then the last consonant should be doubled when adding the ending.
For example, big will become "bigger."
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Printable Sound Wall for the Classroom
Print a complete Sound Wall designed to help you enhance your phonics program by displaying the phonemes your students are currently mastering.
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Phoneme Segmentation Task Cards
Segment beginning, middle vowel, and final phonemes with this set of 20 CVC word task cards.
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CVC Word Chain Ladders - Worksheets
Build word chains with CVC words using this set of printable phonics worksheets.
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Spaceship Word Chains - Worksheets
Manipulate the individual phonemes in 3- and 4-letter words to create new ones with this set of word chain worksheets.
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Learn to Read Short A - Daily Phonics for Kids
Teach your students to read short a words with a daily digital phonics instructional slide deck.
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Short Vowel Worksheets (Middle Sounds Practice)
Identify medial or middle vowel sounds with this set of three worksheets.
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Which Word? CVC Decoding Worksheets
A set of 5 worksheets for students to practice segmenting and blending common CVC words.
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How Does It End? - Final Sounds Printable or Interactive Activity
Practice spelling CVC words with this set of 15 fill-in-the-blank word cards and their matching missing letters.
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Initial and Final Sounds - Worksheets
Five worksheets with missing beginning and ending sounds.
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Which Phoneme Is Missing? Interactive CVC Word Chaining
Create word chains using CVC words with this engaging drag-and-drop phonics activity.
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Directed Word Chains - Worksheets
Manipulate the individual phonemes in words to create new ones with this set of four word chaining worksheets.
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CVC Words Worksheets - Short U Phoneme Manipulation
Manipulate the individual phonemes in “short u” CVC words to create new words with this set of differentiated worksheets.
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Interactive Word Building Sorting Activity-CVC Words
Practice spelling 18 CVC words using images and letter tiles as clues.
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Beginning, Middle and Ending Sounds – Frogs Poster
A frog themed poster for CVC words
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Word Family Activity Sheets
A set of 20 word family activity sheets for students to complete.
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Introducing Phoneme Segmentation Slide Deck
Learn how to segment simple CVC words into their phonemes with this teacher-directed slide deck.
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Blending Phonemes Fluency Strips
Develop students’ ability to blend phonemes in common words with this comprehensive set of phoneme blending fluency strips.
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CVC Word Chain Sequencing Cards
Practice building word chains involving CVC words with these word chain sequencing cards.
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Spelling CVC Words - Worksheets
Develop students’ ability to segment and blend the sounds in CVC words with this set of differentiated worksheets.
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Word Chains Mini-Book
Practice spelling CVC words and manipulating their phonemes to create word chains with this fun-sized mini-book.
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CVC Word Chains - Interactive Activity
Practice spelling CVC words and manipulating their phonemes to create word chains with this digital resource.
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Word Chain Mazes - Worksheets
Color a path through the maze by identifying the changing phoneme to create a continuous word chain.
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CVC Words - Spell and Write Task Cards
Practice spelling CVC words and manipulating their phonemes to create word chains with this set of hands-on work mats.
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CVC Football - Word Building Center
Build phonemic awareness and spelling skills with a football-themed word-building center.
- CVC Words Games
- CVC Words Worksheets
- CVC Words Board Games
- CVC Words Interactive Activities
- CVC Words Task Cards
- CVC Words Matchup Games
- CVC Words Puzzles
- CVC Words Sorting Activities
- CVC Words Flashcards
- CVC Words Posters
- CVC Words Card Games
- CVC Words Instructional Slide Decks
- CVC Words Bulletin Board Displays
- CVC Words Templates
- CVC Words Labels Signs Decorations
- CVC Words Word Walls
- CVC Words Dominoes
- CVC Words Dice Games
- CVC Words Mazes
- CVC Words Bingo
- CVC Words Mini Book
- CVC Words for Pre-K
- CVC Words for Kindergarten
- CVC Words for 1st Grade
- CVC Words for 2nd Grade
- CVC Words for 3rd Grade