As young students learn how to decode CVC words, it’s important for them to get as much repetition as possible with this developing skill. One way to keep students engaged in this repetition is to use a variety of different CVC practice activities. In this post, I’m going to share some fun CVC centers for kindergarten that you can use for daily phonics practice in your classroom.
The Benefits of Combining Digital and Print for Centers
The CVC centers I’m highlighting in this post are digital slides with a printed response sheet. There are several reasons why it can be helpful to include both digital and print components in one center activity. Here are just a few:
- Fine Motor Practice: Digital activities are a wonderful tool for the classroom, but our kindergarten students also need to practice their fine motor skills as often as possible. The addition of printed recording sheets means that students get another chance to improve their hand strength, coordination, and pencil grip.
- Immediate Feedback: Centers with recording sheets are helpful for increasing responsibility and assessing student work during centers time. However, students don’t usually receive immediate feedback on their work. Combining the recording sheets with a digital activity can help students receive more timely feedback on their work. The activities I’m sharing today include an answer key at the end, so students can physically hold up their paper to the screen to self-check their work.
- Easy to Reset: When it’s time for students to move on to the next center, they don’t have to worry about clearing whiteboards, resetting task cards, or cleaning up manipulatives. The next students will just need the reset slide show and a fresh recording sheet in order to get to work.
- Partner Work or Small Group Instruction: The digital slides make it easy for multiple students to participate at the same time. Partners or even a small group of students can look at the slides on the same device while still completing their own written activity. This makes the CVC centers a little bit more versatile, since you can use them for small group skill review or morning work within table groups.
Engaging CVC Centers for Kindergarten
Let’s take a closer look at some of these CVC centers so you can see how the digital and print components work together.
1. Identifying CVC Words
This center includes a fun word search and will give students to practice letter and sound identification. First, students will navigate to a digital slide where they will see a picture. They will then name the picture and determine what sounds they will need to look for in the word search.
Once they have identified the sounds in the word, they will look for that CVC word in the puzzle and color in the boxes. They can also write the CVC word in the space provided on the response sheet for additional fine motor practice.
2. Unlocking CVC Words
This center is another fun way for students to practice identifying CVC words that match a picture. In this activity, students will match the key on each digital slide with the correct lock on their response sheet.
They will do this by saying the name of the picture on the slide and then coloring in the lock with the CVC word that matches the picture. All of the word options for a given picture have similar letters, so students will need to closely consider all three options before deciding which lock to color.
3. Reading CVC Words
This activity gives students another chance to practice decoding CVC words. However, they will be using pictures and words differently than the first two centers I’ve shared so far.
In this activity, students will read the CVC word on the digital slide, then find the picture on their recording sheet that matches the word they just read. Like the previous activity, all of the pictures represent words with similar phonics patterns. For example, the picture options for the word “rug” are mug, run, and rug. This means students won’t be able to rely on just their knowledge of individual sounds to figure it out. They need to decode the whole word.
4. CVC Word Rainbow
Students always love a chance to color during centers time, so this CVC word rainbow activity will be a hit with your students!
Each digital slide has a picture that students need to identify, along with a picture of a crayon. Students will name the picture, find the corresponding CVC word on their recording sheet, and then fill in the box with the crayon color from the slide.
5. Writing CVC Words
Finally, students can practice their letter formation skills as they write CVC words in this center.
Students will first need to name the picture on the digital slide and then determine the letters in the word. They will color in the correct letter bubbles on their recording sheet and then write the word in the space provided.
Even More CVC Centers for Kindergarten
Would you like to use these digital slides and printable recording sheets to create engaging literacy centers in your classroom? I have put together a set of Digital CVC Centers that includes 15 interactive activities that your students can use to strengthen their phonics skills during your literacy rotations.
These centers are easy to set up and they can be used on a computer that has Powerpoint installed or a device that is connected to the internet and can access Google Slides. They require minimal prep time because you only need to upload the PowerPoint presentations to Google Slides and print the response sheets. That’s it! You’ll have engaging centers that will help your students practice CVC words independently.
Just head over to my shop to take a closer look at all of the different activities included in this set of low-prep Kindergarten CVC Centers.
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