CVC Reading Comprehension

CVC Reading Comprehension Learning CVC words introduces students to the concept that words have a beginning, middle and ending sound that together create a word.
Once students have a solid understanding of CVC words, phoneme manipulation is another important skill that they must master. It is the easiest to introduce it in CVC words.The best ways to begin the importance of CVC words are to make your child’s learning easier rather than starting with long letter words. It will cause discouragement in education, making it harder to recall and disengage from what they have learned.

CVC words are short letter phrases that begin with the consonant, comprise a vowel in the middle, and end in the consonant. These short letter words make it easy to pronounce and are the early stages of building letters to form a word. Once your child has learned the sequence of the alphabet, they will learn how to put the alphabet into a short word to make a CVC phrase. That way, your child will find the easy steps to remember and see how the words build.

Consonant Vowel Consonants (CVC) are crucial for building with the alphabet’s combination of vowels and consonants. Making new words helps your child to enhance reading, writing, spelling and speaking skills in further education. The happiest time is when children start saying little phrases like mum or dad, which makes parents more encouraged to teach their kids to learn new words on the go. The importance of CVC words allows kids to build new short phrases and continue in their upcoming life stagesThe ease of communication ensures an effective building strategy for mixing words and consonants. Communication, reading, and writing are essential in keeping socialized in their lifelong learning. When kids learn short three-letter phrases before school, it will be easier to build the language. It marks the importance of CVC words where kids polish overall learning in the early stages.

CVC words are integral to any pre-reading program and they have a special importance in the Montessori Method, as they are the first step from knowing the letter sounds to sounding out simple words. The first stage of reading, the pink series, is composed of only CVC words and can be started as soon as children have a firm letter sound (phonemic) awareness.

CVC words are the first step to unlocking the mysteries and wonders of the English language, and while many teachers and parents wait until children have a firm grasp of all letter sounds and blends, I introduce simple CVC words early so that children can understand why we’re learning all of these letter sounds, and to act as an intrinsic motivation to continue working on our phonemic awareness. (When they see the reward of a “hard task” it is more encouraging to keep learning.)
Children start to learn their letter sounds in Reception, then start to ‘blend’ sounds to read words.

Sample from the Worksheet

As a first step children focus on decoding (reading) three-letter words arranged consonant, vowel, consonant (CVC words). They will learn other letter sounds, such as the consonants g, b, d, h and the remaining vowels e, o, u. A child who already knows all their letter sounds might be shown the CVC word ‘pit’ and asked to read it out loud. 

This is the point where they are required to use their knowledge of the individual sounds of each letter and ‘blend’ these letter sounds together, so they are saying the whole word and not three individual sounds.