Short vowels in cvc words

Free Printable Short Vowel Word Families

CVC words, or consonant vowel consonant words, are normally the first words children learn to write and read. These short vowel words include 3 sounds, a beginning sound, a middle vowel sound, and an ending sound. Kindergarten and first grade teachers use CVC words often in reading and writing instruction. However, sometimes coming up with CVC words on the spot, or simple short vowel words on the spot can be tricky. That’s why I’ve compiled these handy lists of CVC and short vowel words by vowel sound.

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How to Use the Lists

These lists can be used any time you need some easy to read or easy to build short vowel words. Print them out and keep them as a reference for guided reading. You can also use these lists to help build spelling lists, work on segmenting or building CVC words, or to practice mapping words based on sounds if you follow the science of reading in your classroom. You can also find these words in handy ready to print student friendly lists here.

Short Vowel CVC Word Family Lists

Below are consonant vowel consonant word lists. They’re grouped by vowel for easy use. First I’ve included CVC words with a single consonant, vowel, and then consonant. Although they’re not CVC words, I’ve also included some words that are short vowel words that still fall within the word families. Sometimes students are ready to add a digraph or blend to a CVC word, and it’s helpful to have some more complex words handy. I’ve also included names in the list which can be handy if you’re working on writing decodable passages or sentences.

Short a CVC Word Lists

bat, cat, sat, hat, rat, mat, fat, pat, vat

flat, splat, that, brat, chat, gnat

cap, map, nap, lap, gap, rap, sap, tap, yap, zap

clap, flap, slap, snap, trap, wrap, strap

ban, can, man, fan, pan, ran, van, tan, Dan

clan, plan, scan, span, than, bran

bad, dad, lad, had, mad, fad, pad, sad, rad, tad

clad, grad, glad

bam, jam, ham, Pam, Sam, dam, jam, ram, yam

clam, cram, slam, gram, scam, scram, tram, wham, swam

bag, gag, lag, nap, rag, sag, tag, wag, zag

drag, flag, snag, swag

wax, tax, fax, lax, max

flax

back, hack, sack, lack, Jack, pack, rack, tack, Zack

black, crack, quack, snack, stack, track, smack, slack

bank, tank, rank, sank, yank, dank, Hank

plank, blank, prank, clank, thank, crank, flank, drank

band, hand, land, sand

brand, bland, gland, grand, stand, strand

misc. short a CVC words

yak, gas, gal, pal

Short e CVC Word Lists

hen, men, den, pen, ten, Ben, Jen

when, then

bet, set, met, net, vet, let, jet, get, pet, yet, wet

fret, whet

bed, med, led, fed, Ned, red, wed

shed, bled, fled, sled, sped, shred, sled, pled, Fred

beg, peg, leg, keg, Meg

bell, sell, yell, cell, dell, fell, jell, tell, well, Nell

smell, spell, swell, quell, shell

deck, neck, peck, Beck

check, speck, wreck, fleck

bend, tend, mend, fend, send

blend, spend

bent, sent, cent, dent, tent, gent, vent, lent, went, rent

spent, scent

yes, web, Deb, gem, hem, pep, yep, step, stem

Short i CVC Word Lists

bit, fit, sit, hit, kit, lit, pit, sit, wit

skit, spit, split, quit, slit knit

dip, hip, lip, nip, kip, rip, sip, tip, zip

clip, drip, flip, ship, skip, trip, whip, chip, grip, strip, snip

bin, kin, fin, din, sin, pin, tin, win

shin, chin, grin, spin, skin, thin, twin

big, dig, fig, jig, pig, rig, wig, zig, gig

twig, sprig

mid, bid, lid, kid, hid, did, rid

grid, skid, slid, squid

bib, fib, rib, nib

crib

him, dim, sim, rim, Jim, Kim, Tim

whim, swim, brim, grim, slim

bill, dill, fill, gill, will, hill, mill, pill, sill

Jill, chill, drill, frill, skill, spill, still, grill, quill, krill, trill, thrill, shrill

nick, lick, sick, pick, tick, Rick, wick, kick

quick, thick, slick, stick, brick, chick, trick

ding, king, sing, ring, wing, ping, zing

bring, sling, sting, cling, fling, thing, swing

link, pink, wink, rink, sink, kink

blink, stink, brink, think, clink, drink, slink, shrink

misc. short i words

this, mix, six, fix

Short o CVC Word Lists

bot, cot, dot, got, hot, jot, lot, not, pot, rot, tot

blot, clot, knot, plot, shot, slot, spot, snot, trot

bop, cop, hop, lop, mop, pop, sop, top

chop, clop, crop, drop, flop, stop, shop, plop, slop, prop, glop

lob, cob, Bob, rob, mob, sob, job, gob

blob, glob, knob, slob, snob, throb

bog, cog, dog, fog, hog, jog, log

clog, frog, smog, blog, slog

box, lox, fox, pox

rod, sod, pod, cod, nod, mod, bod, God

prod

lock, mock, dock, rock, jock, sock, hock, tock

block, knock, stock, clock, crock, flock, shock, frock, smock

mom, Tom, prom, doll, con, Ron

Short u CVC Word Lists

but, cut, nut, hut, rut, gut, jut

shut

bug, rug, dug, jug, hug, tug, lug, mug, pug

slug, plug, chug, snug, shrug

tub, rub, cub, hub, sub, nub, dub, pub

club, grub, stub, shrub

bun, fun, sun, run, gun, nun, pun

stun, spun, shun

mud, bud, cud, dud

thud, stud, spud

bum, gum, hum, mum, sum

chum, drum, glum, plum, scum, slum

duck, luck, suck, tuck, buck, puck, muck, yuck

truck, chuck, cluck, pluck, stuck, struck, shuck

bump, dump, hump, jump, lump, pump

chump, frump, grump, plump, slump, stump, thump, trump

misc. short u words

pup, cup, bus

thus, flux

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Teaching Short Vowels in CVC Words

I love when students are ready to start learning about and working with short vowels in CVC words! It is so much fun to see them merge together what they have learned about initial and final consonants, word families, and digraphs and blends and truly begin to make exponential gains in their ability to read and write new words every day.

If you have students ready to dive in to short vowels in CVC words, bookmark this blog post for helpful student-friendly definitions and examples, tips on when to introduce short vowels and in what order, and fun ideas for practicing short vowels in CVC.

Vowels consist of a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. Each vowel can make two different sounds, a long sound or a short sound. 

A long vowel sound says the name of the letter. For example, in the word “acorn”, the a says it’s name and is therefore a long vowel sound. 

On the other hand, short vowel sounds are in short form and are not pronounced the same as saying the letter in the alphabet. For example, in the word “apple”, the a makes a short vowel sound.

Here are some examples of a, e, i, o, and u words that have short vowel sounds:

a: cap, bat, mat, lap, rap, tag, bag

e: bed, peg, get, wet, led, jet, net

i: rid, kid, rig, fit, pit, lip, big

o: got, not, mop, cog, hot, rod, pot

u: cup, hut, cut, pup, mud, rug, tug

Short vowels are the gateway to students recognizing the presence of patterns within the English Language. Prior to being introduced to short vowels, students are hard at work learning that consonant sounds can be represented with letters in the alphabet. With the introduction of short vowels, students begin to learn two key truths about the English language:

1) Many words are made up of a consonant, followed by a vowel, followed by another consonant (CVC).

2) When a word is made up of a CVC pattern, the vowel sound in the middle is almost always short.

👉 Without direct instruction, some students do not readily grasp that words in the English language are made up of common patterns and letter pairings. This is especially true if hearing and repeating sounds, spelling, or reading at their developmental level comes with difficulty for them. 

Students need help seeing that many words belong to word families or have similar patterns so that every word they encounter does not present itself as a new learning challenge for them. This understanding also helps them connect new learning to previously learned words and word pattern concepts.

Knowing that there are patterns within the English Language and being taught how to recognize and look for them when encountering new words is a powerful, impactful shift within a students’ learning process!

As soon as students can identify beginning consonant sounds in CVC words and are showing some success in using consonants in the final position of words, it’s time to practice identifying short vowel sounds in CVC words. This is the next developmental step to move students from isolating individual phonemes to phonological blending. Many agree that introducing short vowels first with word families containing the same vowel (same-vowel word families) provides more support for students before jumping into word lists with a mixture of short vowels in CVC words (mixed short vowels) in isolation.

***If you are looking for information on same-vowel word families, please visit this previous post on the topic! Need tips for supporting students in all phases of the Letter Name-Alphabetic stage? Get those here!

There are a lot of opinions on this topic. While there is no right or wrong way, a very common order for introducing short vowels is starting with a, and following with i, o, u, and then saving e for last. Some teachers prefer to introduce each vowel in isolation, while others argue that it is best to pair two together to provide contrast for students. Most seem to agree that it is best to separate the i from the e because they can sound so similar, especially depending on a student’s accent.

Remember, if you are following the order recommended in my blog posts, students have already had a unit on same-vowel word families where they worked with short a (-at, -an, -ad, -ap, -ag), short o (-op, -ot, -og), short e (-et, -eg, -en), short u (-ug, -ut, -un) and short i (-ip, -ig, -ill).

Words Their Way suggests first introducing short vowels with more pictures than words to give students more support and ensure they are not simply looking at the medial vowel, but hearing it when they sound out a word.

Short A and O in Pictures and Words - rag, beg, tag, box, rod, pop

Short I and U in Pictures and Words - lid, zip, wig, cut, pup, gum

Short E, I, O, and U in Pictures and Words - net, leg, dig, pin, cot, rod, mud, run

After students have experience with saying and listening for the medial vowel sound, students are ready to focus more on representing what they hear in their spelling of the words.

Short A and O in Easy CVC Words - jam, wag, map, mom, hop, fox

Short I and U in Easy CVC Words - kid, win, bit, rub, fun, hut

Short E, I, O, and U in Easy CVC Words - wet, pet, sip, kit, not, hot, bus, cub

Once students have had ample practice and success with reading and spelling easy/simple CVC words, they are ready to apply what they have previously learned about digraphs and blends to CVC words. Whereas previously, they worked on correctly identifying and spelling the digraph or blend part, now they’re ready to spell CVC words with initial and final digraphs and blends in their entirety.  

Short A, I, and E with Initial Digraphs - chap, wham, chip, thin, shell, shed

Short A and I with Initial Blends - crab, drag, grill, grip, clap, plan, slip, flip

Short E, O, and U with Initial Blends - plot, trot, slob, frog, sled, fret, glum, slug, drum, truck

Short Vowels with Final Digraphs -SH, -CH, -TH, -SS, -CK - cash, path, wish, miss, clock, boss, rush, stuck

Short Vowels with Final Blends -SK, -ST, and -SP - mask, grasp, desk, nest, fist, lisp, lost, cost, tusk, dust

Short Vowels with Final Blends - FT, -PT, -LF, -LP, and -LT - raft, scalp, wept, self, gift, lift, wolf, golf

* Note: I've linked each of these short vowels in CVC words to resources that can be used to teach these skills. You can find the bundle for Short Vowels in CVC Words here.

Engaging students in games and activities with LOTS OF PICTURES  that show CVC words is very important as students move toward the end of the Letter Name-Alphabetic stage. When students are challenged to build or write the word being depicted by an image, they are compelled to practice their phoneme segmentation skills, or what they hear in a word vs simply relying on what they see when looking at the written word.

🌟 NOTE: In the examples below, I've linked the games and activities I've created for teaching and practicing short vowels in CVC words.

For example, in Hop Around the Map, students take turns drawing cards that contain a picture depicting a short a or short o CVC word. They must say the word the picture depicts aloud, listening for the medial vowel sound that is heard. Then students must find a word on the gameboard with a matching initial consonant and final consonant sound. The word on the gameboard has a missing medial vowel that students mentally fill in and record on their recording sheet. As students record each word on their recording sheet, they sort them by the medial vowel sound.

I also use Spin, Cover, Write, Check activities a lot during this unit because of its heavy incorporation of pictures. In this particular Spin, Cover, Write, Check for Short A, I, and E with Initial Digraphs, students choose from versions of the spinner and 4 versions of the picture board. They spin for a short vowel sound or initial digraph and cover images that match the vowel sound or digraph they spun. Students must use their phonological blending skills to apply what they have been learning and spell the word they covered on their recording sheet.

When teaching short vowels in CVC words, I like to ensure that the activities and games I choose to use incorporate a lot of opportunities for students to not only see and practice spelling CVC words, but also to hear the medial vowel sound and how all the individual phonemes or sounds are blended together. I also like to get the biggest bang for my buck by choosing resources that allow students to interact with word patterns in many ways at once–identifying, blending, sorting, comparing, matching, reading, and writing in this case.

If you’re looking for done-for-you resources such as these, check out my Short Vowels in CVC Words Bundle.

While it is rare to have moments in teaching where you are able to sit back and give yourself a pat on the back while watching your students succeed, seize this moment in time! You have been hard at work teaching students how to represent beginning and ending sounds, guiding them to correctly identify and represent medial vowel sounds, training them to see the patterns that exist within word families in CVC words, and supporting them as they learn about and begin using common digraphs and blends. 

Now it is time to let the magic happen and let all the puzzle pieces fall into place as students become ravenous readers and spellers of CVC words!

Allow students to revel in this stage by providing them with LOTS of varied opportunities to merge all that they have learned up to this point and build more confidence as they forge ahead!

Have students in the Letter Name-Alphabetic Stage that are ready to work on other concepts? Check out these helpful posts:

Supporting Students in the Letter Name-Alphabetic Stage

Teaching Beginning Consonants Letters and Sounds

Teaching Phonics Word Families

Teaching Beginning Digraphs and Blends in CVC Words

Teaching Preconsonantal Nasals in CVC Words

You can get all of the Letter Name-Alphabetic Stage games in a time-saving, money saving bundle!

NOTE: The Letter Name word searches and word study notebook are also included in bundles for all 4 levels of Words Their Way if you need those!

Ha-ha-ha, 55555, kkkkk: how they laugh in SMS in different languages ​​

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"Haha, very funny" is faster and easier to write than "I'm holding my stomach at the moment because you made me laugh"

What are you write in correspondence with friends if it's funny to you: "ha ha" or "oh my god, this is so funny, I can't stop"?

Everyone knows that most people won't waste time writing extra text in messages.

That is why onomatopoeia has become so popular all over the world - words that are onomatopoeia, which can display any sound that is understandable to everyone, for example, a buzzing, mooing of a cow or a quacking of ducks.

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So laughter is a sound that can be represented by a certain letter combination, equally understandable in all countries of the world, isn't it? And no, it's not like that.

It may sound more or less the same when we laugh live, but in writing, people in different countries denote laughter differently.

1. Xaxaxa and olololo

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It turns out there are many ways to express laughter in writing

In Greece (Greek) or Russia (Cyrillic), if you need a good laugh, write xaxaxa . By the way, the same is true for several dozen more languages ​​that use the Cyrillic alphabet.

But if you want to be original in Russian, then write olololo .

2. Ha ha

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the correct way to write laughter in English is ha ha (ha ha) or Ha ha ha! (Ha ha ha!).

But in texting, we tend to want speed, simplicity, and spontaneity, so we'll probably text (or get texted to) in one go - haha ​​ (haha).

If, in addition to humor, you want to add a touch of self-satisfaction to your message, then you can write hehe (hehe), but keep in mind that your interlocutor may not like it.

3. Kkkkk

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Kkkkkkkkkk!

If you want to show that you are having fun in Portuguese or Korean, feel free to write kkkkkk (kkkkkk).

People whose native language is Portuguese, especially Brazilians, convey laughter in writing with the letter K. If you really find it funny in correspondence, then feel free to put a lot of K in a row - kkkkk. Although sometimes Portuguese speakers write rsrsrs - short for risos (laughter).

Korean and Portuguese have little in common, except when the conversation becomes funny. Koreans represent laughter with the character ㅋ which sounds like K.

By the way, in many languages ​​people express their cheerful mood with the sounds K or X.

Bantu), which is spoken by more than eight million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring countries, use the letter combination

5. Jajaja

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Many languages ​​have the letter X or K in their sounds for laughter. write "Ja, ja, ja", but in correspondence they break the rules and use jajaja , and the longer the segment, the funnier the sender - jajajajaaaa .

Je - a more reserved version, jejeje - a mischievous laugh, jijiji - conveys the ambiguity of the situation, but jojojo means "I'm just lying with laughter."

6. mdr

So, there is no onomatopoeia in this variant. In French, laughter is also written hahaha, but the French often replace this with the letter combination mdr . It's short for mort de rire (I'm dying of laughter), and it's much faster to dial it on your phone.

7. lwkmd

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Nigerians use a rather complicated abbreviation, but it makes a lot of sense

People in Nigeria also prefer the abbreviation, not because it's shorter than hahaha, but because it makes more sense. Lwkmd consists of a loose and primitive interpretation of the English words laugh wan kill me die (laughing to death because it's terribly funny).

8. 555555

If you receive a text from your boyfriend or girlfriend from Thailand with multiple numbers 5 in the text, know that he/she is in a great mood.

The Thai language belongs to the Thai-Kadai language group, in which the meaning of words changes due to the intonation with which they are pronounced. The languages ​​of this group are spoken by about 93 million people in Southeast Asia, southern China and northeast India.

In Thai, the word "five" sounds almost like ha, so Thais use fives in writing, which is easier to type.

But if you are in China, be careful! In Chinese, "five" is pronounced like " wu " (wu), and this sound is very close to the sound of crying. Therefore, seeing a lot of fives, your Chinese friends may think that you are crying uncontrollably.

9. H (X)

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Ha-ha in Arabic - ههههه

Arabic script is the second most widely used alphabet after the Latin script.

It spread throughout the world as Islam spread, and was adapted as a writing tool in a number of other languages.

One of the features of the Arabic alphabet is that short vowels are usually not transmitted in writing, which means that there can be no ha in Arabic correspondence, only hhhhhhhh or ههههه .

10. Www

In Japanese, the word for laughter is written warai (the character 笑い).

It's not easy to type it in quick messages, so the Japanese get by with www for moderate fun and wwwww when it's really, really funny.

11. Ha3

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Texting and social media messaging is the easiest way to communicate

In Malaysia, the power of emotion has been taken to a new level. There you can simply write Na when it's fun, or you can write Ha3 (that is, Na x 3), which means - I'm dying of laughter.

12. Ahahah

If you think that the last letter h is superfluous, you are mistaken. The fact is that in Italian h is dumb, but it has the ability to transform the vowels standing next to it.

In this case, it is necessary so that it is immediately clear that the person is funny. Otherwise, the meaning of this letter combination will be different and very strange, because in Italian the word ha is the verb to have.

13. høhøhø

The crossed-out o is the letter of the Norwegian alphabet. To be honest, many Norwegians simply refer to laughter as hahaha, but if you want to be original - høhøhø is at your service.

And those who speak Danish, in general, can puzzle you like this - hæhæhæ , which is more like heh heh heh.

Vowel sounds and letters. How many are there in Russian?

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The correct pronunciation of words is one of the components of beautiful and literate speech. To achieve this, you will first have to study the sounds themselves. In this article, we will figure out together what vowel sounds are, how many vowels are in the alphabet of the Russian language, and what sounds they can represent.

What are vowels and sounds

Vowel sounds are those sounds that we freely convey with our voice. Hence their name comes from: voice means "voice". When pronouncing, air exits through the mouth and does not create noise, and the position of the tongue and lips determines which vowel sound we will pronounce.

There are much fewer vowels in Russian than consonants. There are 6 of them in total: [a], [o], [i], [s], [y] and [e]. To understand whether a vowel sound is in front of you or not, try to sing it. For example:

• a-a-a ,

• y-y-y

• s-s-s .

If it works, then the sound is a vowel. You can't do that with consonants.

There are more vowels than sounds - there are 10 of them: a, i, u, u, o, e, e, e, i, s . This difference is due to the fact that some of these letters can represent two sounds and are pronounced using a combination of a vowel and a consonant [y']. For example, in word spruce the letter e expresses two sounds - [y'] and [e]. Let's look at the table all the vowel sounds and the letters that represent them.

Demo lesson in Russian

Take the test at the introductory lesson and find out what topics separate you from the "five" in Russian.

How vowel sounds are related to syllables

Vowel sounds form syllables - sound segments of words that we pronounce with one breath. One syllable can be either a vowel with one or more consonants, or a vowel alone. There is even a rule by which syllables can be counted: how many vowels in a word - so many syllables.

For example, in the word journey there are 5 vowels: [u], [i], [e], [i] and [e]. This means that it has 5 syllables: p-te-she-stvi-e .

Test yourself!

Count the number of syllables in the words: try on, tanner, well-groomed, care, prefix, capital, wet, invitation, orange .

Vowel sounds and stress

Now let's see what groups vowel sounds are divided into. Sometimes their pronunciation depends on whether the stress falls on them, that is, whether we single them out with our voice. So vowel sounds are divided into stressed and unstressed. Here are some examples:

Stress in Russian can fall on any of the existing vowel sounds. However, only 4 of them can be unstressed - these are [a], [i], [y] and [s]. In this position, we pronounce sounds weaker than under stress, because of which they can change qualities and sound differently.

Interestingly, the vowels [o] and [e] can only be stressed. There are only a couple of exceptions to this rule: for example, in words cocoa and canoe sounds [o] and [e] in an unstressed position.

How unstressed vowels are related to consonants

How an unstressed vowel sounds depends on the consonant that precedes it. Or rather, from its hardness or softness. If it is a hard consonant, it can be followed by unstressed vowels [y], [a] and [s]. When we talk about a soft consonant, it is followed by unstressed vowels [y] and [and].

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It's time to find out if you now understand well what vowel sounds are in Russian. To do this, we have prepared tasks for self-examination.

Task 1

List all the vowels in these words:

Task 2

Name 5 words each in which the sounds [a], [i], [y] and [s] would be stressed.

Task 3

Name 5 words in which an unstressed vowel would come after a hard consonant and 5 more words where it would follow a soft consonant.

Task 4

Count the number of syllables in the words below (remember to use the rule you learned at the beginning of the article!):

• weightless,

• sunrise,

• adventure,

• painter,

• perpetuate,

• pleasant,

• image,

• category,

• exciting,

• melting,

• snowflake.

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