Bright Path CVC Words Worksheets: 15 Word Families

This is a 39-page printable PDF of short-vowel word family practice for kindergarten and 1st grade, sold on Etsy by Bright Path Learning Sheets. It is meant for an adult to use with a child at home, in a classroom or in tutoring.

The pack covers 15 CVC word families, such as -at, -in and -ug, with 57 picture words in all. It includes 15 Read, Trace and Write pages, where each picture word is shown with its beginning sound in color, then traced and written on three-line handwriting paper. It also has 15 Build and Match pages with missing-letter boxes and draw-a-line matching, three Sort the Words pages that ask the child to sort a word bank into two families and then write a sentence, two Read and Draw pages, a word family chart to hang up, and a how-to-use guide with a suggested teaching order by vowel.

The guide is careful about the few words that are not strictly consonant-vowel-consonant. It explains, for example, that ox and up have only two letters and that fox and box end in a sound made of two sounds, so an adult can explain them if a child asks. The seller notes that these are print-based phonics tasks rather than oral phonemic awareness exercises.

It is a paid instant download, listed at $3.99 (it was on sale for $2.99 when we reviewed it). The seller offers to fix or refund a file that will not open or print correctly.

The pack suits families teaching a child to read with a phonics approach, and teachers or tutors who want a structured set of word family pages to work through in order.