CVCC Words Teaching Resources

Teach spelling and reading CVCC words to your elementary students with a complete collection of printable worksheets, digital games, reading center activities, CVCC word lists, flashcards, and more from the teachers of Teach Starter!

New to teaching this part of the English Language Arts curriculum or just looking for new ways to engage students as they move into CVCC words? Take a peek at this primer from our teacher team!

What Are CVCC Words?

CVCC words are words in which the first, middle, and last sounds are all consonants. These types of words can be challenging for young children learning to read and spell because they do not follow the typical pattern of beginning with a consonant sound, then a vowel sound, and ending with a consonant sound (CVC).

Children typically learn to read and spell CVCC words after first tackling more simple words that follow the CVC structure. By this point, children have developed the necessary phonemic awareness and decoding skills to tackle more complex words

CVCC Word Examples

Some common CVCC word examples you might use in your classroom include:

  1. truck
  2. strap
  3. brick
  4. spring
  5. scrub
  6. scrap
  7. splash
  8. latch
  9. screw
  10. scrape
  11. stretch

How to Teach CVCC Words

This collection has been filled with ideas for teaching students how to read and spell CVCC words to grow their vocabulary. Looking for more strategies to help students achieve those aha moments? Take a look at some of the most important strategies for teaching CVCC words:

  1. Phonemic Awareness: Teach your students to break words down into their individual sounds, or phonemes, to help them identify the beginning, middle, and ending sounds of CVCC words.
  2. Decoding: Teach your students to employ decoding skills by making use of the sounds they already know to decode the unfamiliar words. This will help them to recognize the word when they see it in print.
  3. Word Families: Grouping words that share common sounds or spellings (such as words that end in -ing or -ick) can help children recognize patterns and make connections between words.
  4. Sight Words: Some CVCC words can be added to your sight word work. This can help them to quickly identify and read these words without having to decode them.
  5. Word Building: Teach children to build words using letter-sound correspondences, starting with the first sound, then the second, and the last one.
  6. Word Sorting: Sorting words by their features, such as CVCC words, CVC words, words with the same ending sound, etc. will help children to identify the features and attributes of the words.
  7. Context: Provide kids with meaningful context for the CVCC words they are learning, such as reading a story or providing a picture or a sentence that includes the word.
Show more
    • Location
    • resource types
    • availability
    • file formats
    • publishers
4 of 28 teaching resources for those 'aha' moments