CVC words: Card and board games

Card Games With CVC Words

Games with CVC words give young learners enjoyable experiences with the concepts of blending sounds together (at the beginning level), and developing automatic decoding skills. Once students can recognise the letter sounds and their symbols, they can begin to blend 2 or 3 sounds together to form words. The easiest words to practice this skill with are consonant-vowel-consonant words like r-u-g, f-a-n and p-o-t.

Students may need to begin with activities that only include some of the more common vowels and consonants (eg. at, am and ap words or et, ut and it words). Once confident with the idea of blending sounds, and the sounds made by all the letters (short vowels), students can move onto games that include a mixture of all vowels and consonants.

Most children enjoy the success they have when independently decoding their first words, and these games provide lots of opportunities to practice both blending and quick decoding. It doesn't take long before learners become automatic with c-v-c words and are moving on to blend more complex sounds.

Bees in the Garden CVC Card Game
This is a set of 27 picture cards with the words to match.All the short vowels are included.
Instructions: Put the word cards face down in a stack. Share all the picture cards between the players. Players spread them out on the table so they can be easily seen. Take turns to select a card from the stack and say the word aloud. The player who has the matching picture claims it. Play until all cards are matched. The player with the most pairs is the winner.

chicken and eggs game