Kindergarten CVC words are perfect for beginning readers! Now, your child can read CVC words without any difficulty. He’s getting bored.
Most likely homeschool mom, you’ve done a great job teaching your kiddo basic CVC words, but what about CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC, and CCCVC words? How do you teach your child to read and spell those words? I will share how I’ve taught hundreds of children to learn how to read and spell more advanced Kindergarten CVC words using this phonics skill. Blending!
It’s time for advanced Kindergarten CVC words reading strategies, consonant blends!
Examples of beginning consonant blends for Kindergarten CVC words are:
- ‘bl-‘ (blip)
- ‘st-‘ (step)
- ‘fr-‘ (frog)
- ‘dr-‘ (drip)
- ‘fl-‘ (flat)
5 Kindergarten CVC Words (Advanced)
- For review, the basic cvc word is a single consonant as the beginning sound, a short vowel as the middle sound and a single consonant again as the final sound.
2. CVCC words. The simplest version of this is adding the letter ‘s’ or /s/ sound at the end of a word. An example would be changing the word ‘cat’ to ‘cats’. Another example would be ending a word with 2 consonants where each consonant says its sound. An example of this CVCC word blend is the word ‘nest’ which begins with the usual Kindergarten CVC words beginning, single consonant /n/, middle vowel sound /e/, but ends with two consonant sounds or a consonant blend ‘s-t’, /st/.
3. CCVC words begin with the basic Kindergarten CVC words, where you child blends to consonant sounds together at the beginning of a word, like in the word ‘slug’. Your child reads the ‘s-l’ bend /sl/, then continues to match the grapheme u to the short /u/ sound he has learned, then ending with the hard ‘g’ sound /g/. Keep in mind that you likely have not taught your child digraphs or soft /g/ or soft /c/ rules yet.
4. CCCVC words. Yes, a word can begin with a triple consonant blend. An example are the words ‘scrub’ and ‘splat’. In the word ‘scrub’, you clearly hear each consonant sound in /scr/ and in the word ‘splat’, you clearly hear each of the 3 consonant sounds at the beginning /spl’. ‘Keep in mind that triple consonant blends are different from trigraphs, where 3 letters make one sound. An example of a trigraph is ‘dge’ spells /j/. A tripgraph is different from a triple consonant blend because in trigraph, you hear one sound, in a triple consent blend, you hear all 3 consonant sounds blended together; not a new sound represented by multiple letters.
5. CCCVCC The final goal for blending CVC words for your child would be to successfully decode consonant blends at the beginning and ending of words.
