how to practice CVC words

Do your students need differentiated word family practice worksheets?

Of course, they do! You can never have too many word family printables since every year we teach different students with different phonological needs!

Luckily, I have you covered! Check out these different printables and download the freebies at the end of this post.

Practice Makes Progress

If you’re teaching students about CVC words and word families and you want them to practice these skills independently, these worksheets are perfect for you.

I like to use these worksheets after engaging my students in hands-on activities during small group instruction. You can start with short a and then move to short o words, but I recommend that you cover word families that are in the instructional leveled text you use during guided reading, since seeing and interacting with these words in context is way more effective than out of context.

Read and Match

Read and matching activities are a great way to quickly gauge how well your students can read word family words. They look at the picture or read the word and match them.

CVC Word Family printables. Students color, cut, glue and write words from 24 word families using six differentiated worksheets.

There are two different worksheets. In this version, students read the word, write the word and match it.

Here’s another differentiated worksheet for additional practice or early finishers.

Word Builder

This activity is more challenging. Students look at the picture and arrange the letters to build the word and glue them in the correct location.

Writing Sentences

As I said before, the best way for students to learn a skill is to apply it in context, such as reading it in a sentence or writing it correctly in a sentence.

Some students will be ready to do this. Others will need a bit more time and that’s okay! That’s why there are two, differentiated worksheets.