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AP Word Dice Games - A CVC Phonics Center

Roll-and-build dice games for the -ap word family: students combine onset-letter cubes with the ap ending, then record each word they build or write the word for a pictured item they roll.
Grades
Pre-K–1, Elementary
Pages
11
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Updated Oct 26, 2026

Subject
ELA, Reading, Phonics, Language Development
Topic
Dice Games, Literacy Game
Resource types
Activities, Games
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About this resource

What's inside this resource

Practice reading and writing CVC words with these fun AP word family dice games. Students will practice recognizing, reading, writing and spelling words with the AP rime.

What is Included:

  • Dice templates to go with each of the game mats

  • Seven recording mats that go with one of the dice sets.

To play, students will roll the dice. Depending on the mat they are using, students will color, trace, cover, graph, or write the word or image that was rolled. By having many activity mats, these games can be easily differentiated for that students that need more support. These dice games make great literacy or phonics stations or centers.

More Ways to Use these Dice Games:

  • For a single player game, students can use the tracing worksheets to trace the word or picture they rolled.

  • For a single player game, students can use the grid worksheets to color or cover the word or picture they rolled.

  • For a single player game, students can create a graph by rolling the dice a set number of times, then filling in the blank grid squares by coloring or covering the spaces.

  • For a partner game, students can play Three in a Row. To play, students use the grid paper with the words in a random order. Students take turns rolling the dice and coloring or covering the words in the grid. The first player to get three words in a row wins.

  • For a partner game, use the tracing pages to roll and take turns tracing the words or picture rolled. The player who traces the most words at the end of time wins!


Skills Assessed

  • Blending of Onset and Rime in CVC Words

  • Reading, Tracing, Writing and Spelling CVC Words

The dice game mats require no prep. They just need to be printed out and put in the center or station you wish to use them in. The dice will need to be assembled. You will need to print them out on card stock or other heavy weight paper, cut, fold and tape together. The mats can be laminated to make them reusable, especially of you need to save paper. Dry erase markers can be used on the writing and tracing mats.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Blend an onset with the -ap rime to read a CVC word
  • Write -ap family words that match a picture

Teaching tips

  • The cubes are paper templates that must be cut out and assembled with tape or glue before the first game.

Skills covered

  • Onset-rime blending — combining a rolled letter with -ap to build a word
  • Spelling CVC words — writing each built word on a recording sheet

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • CCSS.RF.K.2.c — Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.

Core concepts

  • -ap word family
  • CVC words
  • Onset and rime

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