Here are a few of my favorite activities for introducing and teaching short vowel sounds and CVC words. There’s a little bit of assembly involved for each activity, but you’re done, you’ll have three activities that will last for years! Enjoy!
1. Vowel Sticks
Those short vowel sounds can be so tricky! It’s so important that our kiddos learn to hear the differences between the short vowel sounds so that they can decode and write words correctly. These vowel sticks are quite helpful in teaching students discriminate the sounds. You can easily differentiate the activity by choosing which and how many vowels to use during your lesson. For students who are having a great deal of difficulty with vowels, I recommend starting with only 2 vowels with very dissimilar sounds (e.g. “a” and “o”). You can then increase the difficulty by adding more sounds and similar sounding vowels (e.g. “a” and “e”). For those students who are quickly learning this skill, try providing words (e.g. “cat”, “beg”) and have them hold up the correct vowel.
Just click HERE to download the printable for creating your own vowel sticks. The directions for assembling the activity as well as using the activity during instruction are included in the file.
2. Word Family Sliders
Word sliders are often helpful when introducing word families. When you download this file you’ll receive the printable for creating 18 word family sliders. You could print the activity on card stock and call it good, but if you’d like to add a little color and durability to your activity print the word family cards on a full size Avery label and adhere them to Glidden paint samples (Home Depot). I color-coded the borders of the word family cards to the paint samples and the letter sliders are also color-coordinated so that the students can easily match them to the card.
Just click HERE to download the printable for creating your own word slides.
3. Build It- Write It Cards
The Build It-Write It cards are great for your independent centers. To create this activity you will need counting tiles, adhesive chalkboard paper and liquid chalk. You could substitute adhesive dry erase paper and a dry erase marker for the chalkboard paper/liquid chalk. For specific directions for assembling this activity, visit the Build It-Write It for CVC and CCVC Words.
Just click HERE to download the printable for creating the Build-It Write-It deck
Enjoy these freebies!
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