Are you looking for word family activities to build vocabulary and comprehension skills for your beginning learners? These word family activities and CVC word worksheets are excellent for kindergarten, English language learners, and special education students. They are student-friendly and Common Core aligned with ELA foundational skills to help your students improve their vocabulary, reading fluency, and comprehension skills.
Additionally, these interactive, cut-and-paste word activities will help your students with print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics and word recognition skills, and fluency. The following word family activities have CVC words, blends, and digraphs for continued reading practice.
Word Family Activities To Build Foundational Skills
The matching words to pictures worksheets have clear pictures to color, large print words for reading, cutting and pasting. Additionally, these comprehension worksheets will strengthen your students’ fine motor skills.
There are two versions of the worksheets— black/white and a color version. The blk/wht version can be given to students who have all the prerequisite skills. For example, they can read, color, cut and paste independently, if not, then with the help of a paraprofessional. These are also wonderful for early finishers.
The color version is for further modification and differentiation and great for Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)—tailored to a particular student. You can print and laminate the worksheets to create an interactive activity book for durability and multiple use. I have included separate pages of the words to print, cut, laminate and velcro to the worksheet. These are beneficial for young learners and students on the spectrum.
The activity books are great for 1:1 work, independent desk work, workstations, literacy centers and even small group work. Again, an excellent resource to just pull out for those early finishers as well as those under a highly structured curriculum.
There are 24 word families (6 words per page) for a total of 144 words in this packet:
ab, ad, ag, am, an, ap, ar, at, ed, ap, et, id, ig, in, ip, it, ob, og, op, ot, ub, ug, um, un
Your students will have a highly reinforcing activity to practice their nouns, sight words, phonics, and vocabulary. Additionally, these CVC Word Family Worksheets are a great extension or supplement to your phonics lessons.
CVC Words-Short Vowel Sounds Worksheets
These reading, writing and coloring pages will help your students increase their vocabulary and fluency through learning to isolate and sound out initial, medial and final sounds (phonemes). As they engage in these activities, they will improve their word recognition, meaning, and reading fluency skills.
This activity also works well with students who struggle with phonics and phonological awareness. Particularly, students with autism who have global deficits and very splintered skills.
Students on the spectrum benefit from visual aids and learn best through sight word practice and lots of repetition. As they interact with the worksheets, they will improve their comprehension skills and fine motor skills by writing the words and coloring the picture that represents the word symbol.
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Additional Resources and Materials
If you are looking for more worksheets, activities and printables for building vocabulary and reading comprehension, I invite you to visit my Teachers PayTeacher Store. All of my activities are also available digitally on the Easel by TPT site. You can assign the work to your students on the platform and they can access it from any device. You will also be able to monitor their progress and give them timely feedback.
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