Make-A-Word Center: CVC Word Work - Really Good Stuff

Make-A-Word Center: CVC Word Work Congratulations on your purchase of the Really Good Stuff® Make-A-Word Center: CVC Word Work, a handson activity that offers students practice in spelling CVC words. Objective Given a picture of a CVC word, students isolate and pronounce the initial, medial, and final phonemes, find the corresponding letter, and place it correctly in position. Meeting Common Core State Standards Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). a. Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words. b. Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends. c. Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words. d. Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds (phonemes). e. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. This Really Good Stuff® product includes: • 103 Make-A-Word Center CVC Cards • 90 Lowercase Foam Letters • Compartmentalized Storage Box • This Really Good Stuff® Teaching Guide The Make-A-Word Center: CVC Word Work offers a fun, independent word-building activity for students to learn to spell familiar CVC words. One side of the card shows the word spelled for support, and the back of the card provides a challenge with the vowel missing.

Emergent Readers and Spellers Ideal for literacy centers, the Make-A-Word Center: CVC Word Work can be used independently by young students following a demonstration, or for partners who can challenge and support each other in word-building activities. It is also an ideal at-home or tutoring activity. The vivid, full-color photos make it easy for students to use the cards without assistance. The goal is for students to achieve independence, and confidence, in their reading and spelling. Once students have completed the earliest levels of phonics education—acquiring letter-sound knowledge through beginning and ending sound instruction—they have already begun reading CVC words on their own. With this foundational knowledge of CVC words, further word-building activities, including letter substitution, will expand students’ word-family vocabularies. Management 1. Take apart the letters and place them in the corresponding compartments in the box. 2. Sort the cards by their border colors. Each medial vowel sound family has its own color cards. 3. You might place these cards in labeled baggies for easy access. Model the Activity This activity is especially suited for students who need one-on-one, guided word-building lessons. With the simple, universal photo cues, the cards are useful with children for whom word building does not come naturally, and with students who are newly acquiring English, or English Language Learners (ELL).

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Make-A-Word Center: CVC Word Work 1. Select a card. Show the side with all the letters showing. 2. Ask the students to say the name of the picture. Then together sound out each of the letter sounds in the word, i.e., fan =/ f/ /a/ /n/. As each of the sounds is produced, place the corresponding letter in its place.

• “See it. Build it. Write it.” Have the student follow along as you build a similar word. Finally, have students work independently. Have students work through one vowel family at a time. As they get more successful and comfortable reading CVC words, mix up the vowel families. Or use an index card to cover over some or all the letters and ask the students to spell the word with less support. Have fun!

3. Next, turn the card over and ask the students what they notice. They should notice that the picture is the same and that the beginning and ending sounds are there, but that the middle sound is missing.

4. Ask them what sound is missing. As they tell you the /a/ is missing, place the foam letter a in place. Then read the word together, tracking slowly, matching your finger to your sounds. 5. Present the reproducible. Show students how to write and draw a quick sketch of the word in the designated places.


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“See it. Build it. Write it.” Reproducible



