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Building CVC Words with Blocks

February 9, 2016 by Nadia van Zyl 10 Comments

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One thing I have learned working with children with learning disabilities: they need hands on activities in order to grasp a concept!The use of real building blocks for this CVC word building activity is just that! building cvc words

For this activity you will need:
  • Building blocks Wooden or Foam
  • White Label Stickers
  • Marker

blocks & stickers

Write the letters on the stickers and stick it on the blocks.

We have revised the letters c, a, t, o and p in the fist two weeks of school, that is why you will see only these letters on the blocks(I added a line underneath the letter p so it won’t be confused with a letter d after I took these photos). You can obviously use whatever letters your kids now and work with that.

letters on blocks

I like the idea of using stickers on the blocks, that makes it non-permanent and it could be changed or removed.
non-permanent

PS: You have to see these posts about Spelling with building blocks and CVC Dominoes. Both activities are fabulous, that is why they were added to two fab books!

I have 3 to 4 kids in a therapy group and each will get a block with all the letters. (A child can play individually and build more words)

  • Find letters on the block: Show me your letter c, what sound does it make?
  • If I want to spell the word ‘cap’, which letter comes first?(kids show ‘c’) and then?(kids show ‘a’) and last? (Kids show ‘p’).
  • Let’s spell the word ‘pot’ together. First child places down a ‘p’. Next child adds his ‘o’, last one adds his letter ‘p’. The next child can read the whole word.
  • Phoneme manipulation: change the sounds in the word. For instance: let’s change the word ‘pot’ to ‘pat’. What needs to change?
  • Now, let’s start a word with ‘t’. Which words start with ‘t’? ‘Tap’, ‘top’. Let’s build it. Which letter comes after ‘t’? And then?

This is a great segmenting and blending activity, two skills kids need to spell, read and write.

learning with blocks

For an individual activity: Add the blocks to a container and shake it up. What does it spell? Or play a game of block scrabble: start with one word and build on!

building cvc words

Make word building fun by using real blocks and your children will have a blast revising their CVC words!

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CVC words booklet TpT

Do check out our CVC Words Pack

too!

More fun learning ideas with blocks:

  • Building Block STEM Challenge Cards from Life Over C’s
  • Fractions with KORXX Blocks from Still Playing School
  • Building Block Maze Activity from Mom Inspired Life
  • Free Printable: Block Scavenger Hunt for Letter Recognition from Play Dough and Popsicles
  • Fine Motor Development with Blocks from Sugar Aunts
  • Building Tens Castles (Preschool/Kindergarten Math) from Preschool Powol Packets
  • Word Family BINGO! from School Time Snippets
  • Building Block Addition Towers from The Kindergarten Connection
  • Superhero Alphabet Matching Activity with Blocks from Stir The Wonder
  • Storytelling with Wooden Blocks: Three Little Pigs from Adventures of Adam
  • Sight Word ABCs with Blocks from Simple Fun for Kids
  • Letter Sound Scavenger Hunt from Raising Little Superheroes
  • Symmetry with Building Blocks from In The Playroom
  • Building CVC words with Blocks from Teach me Mommy
  • Making Patterns with Building Blocks from Play & Learn Everyday

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Comments

  1. Adventures of Adam says

    February 12, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    Love the different possibilities with this activity.

    Reply
    • Susie says

      January 10, 2019 at 1:02 pm

      I’ve made some blocks like these too…….just something I do : I write the vowels all in red or put them on RED blocks. It helps for the isolation and understanding of the vowel sounds and their job. Nice post……..

      Reply
      • Nadia van Zyl says

        January 11, 2019 at 1:20 pm

        Great idea!

        Reply

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