CVC Words Tracing Worksheets
19 printable pages. Eighteen rhyming word families, 72 three-letter words, one family per page so the pattern is impossible to miss.
- Pages
- 19
- Ages
- 4-6
- Paper size
- A4
- Black ink only
Free to print at home, at school, and in a classroom of thirty.
Eighteen rhyming families, four words each, one family per page
CVC means consonant, vowel, consonant: cat, pig, sun. They are the first words a child can read without being told what they say, because every letter makes its ordinary sound. This book puts one rhyming family on each page, so the pattern is visible before it is explained.
The eighteen families
a: -at, -an, -ap, -ad, -ag. e: -en, -et, -ed. i: -in, -ig, -ip, -it. o: -op, -ot, -og. u: -ug, -un, -ut.
Four words in each, 72 words in all. The a families come first and get five pages, because short a is the vowel nearly every phonics scheme teaches first and the one children hear most clearly.
What is on each page
Four words. Each gets a model row — one grey word to copy, two dotted ones to trace — and an empty ruled row underneath. Nothing else, because the point of the page is the rhyme, and a page with pictures on it gets read from the pictures.
Read it before tracing it
Say the four words aloud, in order, before the pencil comes out. cat, hat, bat, mat. A child who hears that only the first sound changes has understood the whole idea of a word family, and the tracing afterwards is handwriting practice rather than a reading lesson.
What this book does not do
There are no pictures to match, no cut-and-paste, no sound boxes. It is a handwriting book that happens to use readable words. For the reading side, the words here line up with almost any synthetic phonics scheme, so it can sit alongside whatever a school is already using.
What comes next
Pre-K Sight Words covers the opposite half of early reading: the words that cannot be sounded out and have to be recognised whole.
Printing this one correctly
In your printer dialog set Scale to 100% or Actual size, not Fit to page. Fit to page shrinks the tracing letters and they stop matching the size a child's hand is learning.
Plain paper is fine for crayons and pencils. If your child uses felt pens, 100 gsm paper stops the ink bleeding to the next sheet.
