Free Phonics Worksheets Generator CVC, digraph and blend words to sound out, circle and write

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CVC stands for consonant, vowel, consonant: a short word with three sounds and a short vowel in the middle, such as cat, dog, sun, pen or pig. They are usually the first words children blend. Words like duck, bell and ship have more than three letters but still three sounds, so here ck, ll and sh each sit in one sound box.

The UK Department for Education's Letters and Sounds guidance (2007) teaches Phase 2 in up to 6 weeks, one set of letters a week: s a t p, then i n m d, then g o c k, then ck e u r, then h b f l. Phase 3 follows in up to 12 weeks with j v w x, y z zz qu and the digraphs ch, sh, th and ng, and Phase 4 (4 to 6 weeks) covers adjacent consonants such as stop and jump. In the US, Common Core RF.1.3.a asks first graders to know common consonant digraphs after kindergarten letter sounds and short vowels.

No official standard gives a number. Common Core RF.K.3 asks kindergartners to know one-to-one letter-sound correspondences, to associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings for the five major vowels, to read common high-frequency words by sight, and to distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ (cat and cot). A practical goal is to read short words for each of the five vowels; each short vowel list here has 33 to 39 words to pick from.

Open Choose the words, then type or paste words into Your own words, separated by commas, spaces or new lines. The page updates at once. You can mix list words and your own words, up to 60 words per set. The letter pairs sh, ch, th, wh, ck, ng, qu, ll, ss, ff and zz stay in one sound box; unusual spellings such as said are split letter by letter, so use the find-and-circle page for those.

A digraph is two letters that make one sound: sh in ship, ck in duck, ng in ring. In a blend each letter keeps its own sound: s and t in stop, m and p in jump. The generator keeps a digraph in one box, so ship has three boxes (sh, i, p) while stop has four (s, t, o, p). The Digraphs list has 48 words and the Blends list 48; England's guidance calls blends adjacent consonants.

A word family is a group of words that share the same ending, called a rime: cat, hat, mat all end in -at. Wylie and Durrell (1970) found 37 common rimes in about 500 words in early reading books. The Word families list has 20 rimes with three words each (-at, -an, -ap, -ag, -ack, -et, -en, -ed, -ell, -ig, -in, -ip, -it, -ill, -og, -op, -ot, -ug, -un, -ut) and a second list adds 10 more.

No curriculum document sets a fixed number of words. Letters and Sounds says its word banks are not to be worked through slavishly but selected from as needed, and it paces by letter sets, one set a week in Phase 2. Many schools run daily phonics sessions of about 15 to 20 minutes. One page of ten words is a sensible amount for a day; reprint the same words with new letter choices the next day.

Yes. Switch on Add answer key pages for the sound and find pages. You get a copy of each beginning, middle, ending and find-and-circle page with the correct letter or word in red. The Sound it out pages have no key because the answer is the word printed on the page.

Yes for both paper sizes: choose US Letter (8.5 × 11 in) or A4 (210 × 297 mm). The lists follow the CVC, digraph and blend stages of Letters and Sounds and Common Core, but they are not sorted by letter set. For a scheme's exact words, tick the ones you need or type them into Your own words. For England's Year 1 phonics screening check (40 words, a mix of real and pseudo-words), type practice words, including made-up ones, yourself.