Here’s another phonics printable you can use at home – this one is loads of CVC words with pictures that make a fun little puzzle game.
Your little ones will be able to use these phonics cards to practice their flourishing reading skills in a fun and engaging way!
CVC stands for consonant – vowel – consonant, and CVC words are easy words that your children will be able to sound out and blend as they begin to learn to read.
This pack contains 40 different CVC words you can print and cut out at home.
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What Skills Can Your Little Ones Learn And Develop?
These CVC words with pictures are designed to help your children practice and develop their early reading and writing skills, such as:
- Segmenting – this is the ability to breakdown and hear each sound in a word.
- Sounding out – this is saying the different sounds that the written letters make, one sound at a time.
- Blending – the ability to put the different sounds of a word together to be able to correctly say the word.
- Letter recognition
- Letter formation – if they practice writing them out after they have completed the puzzle
These are important skills taught during phonics lessons and help your children take some of their first steps on the path to becoming fluent readers.
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How To Prepare This CVC words with pictures game
First you need to download them by clicking on the download box at the bottom of the page.
After that, you’ll need to carefully cut them out.
There’s 40 CVC word cards included.
Then I’d advise laminating them, especially if you want to be able to use them again. Here’s an affordable laminator if you don’t have one:
That’s it, your little ones are now ready to play this CVC words game and improve their reading skills!
Some Ideas For How To Use This CVC Words Game
There’s a few different ways you can use this printable with your children depending on their reading and writing ability and which skills they need to develop.
One way, is you can use the cards as they are, as flash cards for your children to practice sounding out and blending the simple CVC words.
When they are confident, you can cut out the puzzle piece letters and see if they can find the correct sounds to correctly spell the word in the picture. This will test their segmenting and letter recognition skills. You may want to just start with the letters of that word and see if they can order them correctly, before mixing letters from other words as well.
