When you’re planning phonics instruction for your students, it is important to select words they will encounter regularly that are also decodable.
One of the first steps in teaching students to read is working with CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. These words usually contain short vowel sounds and are easily decodable. There are a few exceptions such as car or new.
Here is a list of short vowel words to pull from when creating your phonics activities.
Heather is the author of Creation Castle. She has experience with general education, special education, and ESL students in kindergarten through fifth grade. She specializes in early elementary math and literacy, as well as organization.
