Real or Silly Sort of CVC Words Worksheet

- Grades
- Junior Kindergarten–Grade 1
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- 2
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- Months, Back To School, Holidays, ESL, Phonics, Holiday & Seasonal, Language Development, ELA
- Topic
- Word Sort, Phonics
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This fun and interactive Real or Silly Word Sort is a great way to help young learners practice reading and identifying CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. Students will read a set of short words, then decide if each one is a real word or a made-up (silly) one. Once they've made their choices, they’ll cut out the words and paste them into the correct column.
This hands-on activity makes phonics practice engaging and effective, encouraging students to sound out each word and build early decoding skills.
Ways to Use:
Morning work or early finisher activity
Literacy centres or phonics stations
Homework or take-home review
Small group or one-on-one instruction
Benefits:
Encourages careful reading and decoding
Supports word recognition and vocabulary development
Easy to prep and fun to complete
Adds variety to your phonics lessons
Perfect for Junior Kindergarten, Kindergarten, or Grade 1 classrooms, this resource helps students build strong reading foundations while having fun sorting silly and real words!
Enjoy!
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Distinguish real CVC words from nonsense words by decoding each one
Teaching tips
Hearing a student read the silly words aloud shows whether they are blending each sound or recognizing familiar words from memory.
Skills covered
Decoding CVC words — sounding out each short word before deciding where it goes
Word sorting — placing each word under Real Words or Silly Words
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CVC words
Nonsense words
Decoding
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