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CVCC Word and Picture Flash Cards

Forty-eight CVCC words, from sand and lamp to gift and camp, are paired one-to-three-per-card across sixteen picture flash cards.
Grades
Preschool–Pre-K, Grades 1–2, Elementary
Pages
16
File type
PDF
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Updated Jan 08, 2024

Subject
ELA, Language Development, Phonics, Reading
Topic
phonics, sounds
Resource types
Worksheets & Printables, Flashcards
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What's inside this resource

Forty-eight CVCC words are paired with pictures across sixteen flash-card pages, three words to a page, from sand, hand and lamp on the first page to gift, camp and list on the last. The set spans a wide range of final consonant-consonant patterns — blends like -nd, -mp, -nk and -st (sand, jump, wink, west), and digraphs like -sh, -th and -ck (fish, moth, sock) — giving students repeated exposure to how English words end in more than one consonant sound. Each card presents the word alongside its picture, so the set can be sorted, matched or read aloud without additional preparation.

Product description

From the author

Mastering CVCC (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant-Consonant) word patterns sets early readers up for decoding success. These CVCC Word and Picture Flash Cards provide engaging practice to boost phonics skills with these foundational word types.

The set includes 48 printable flash cards pairing common CVCC words like milk, wind, lamp, tent, etc. with colorful illustrations. Seeing the words along with related pictures improves word recognition and retention, as students connect printed words with meaning.

Working through the cards gives students repeated exposure to the CVCC pattern, which appears frequently in English words. They will gain fluency sounding out and blending words with final consonant clusters like -mp, -nd and -lt. The visuals make learning these patterns memorable.

Designed for versatility, these flash cards seamlessly integrate into various learning environments, including classrooms and homeschooling settings. The sturdy construction ensures durability, making them suitable for repeated use and long-term engagement.

Teachers can use the cards for literacy stations, word building activities, phonics instruction and reading games. Sort them by beginning/ending sounds for added skill practice. They are ideal for reinforcing high frequency sight words with the CVCC pattern.

With their engaging format, these CVCC Word and Picture Flash Cards provide the focused practice emerging readers need to develop automaticity with these early word types. A great resource for building decoding proficiency!

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Students will read CVCC words with final consonant blends such as -nd, -mp, -nk and -st.

  • Students will read CVCC words with final consonant digraphs such as -sh, -th and -ck.

  • Students will match a printed word to its corresponding picture.

Teaching tips

  • Because each page holds three unrelated words rather than a themed set, cut the cards apart and sort them by final sound pattern (for example, grouping all the -ck words together) for a targeted mini-lesson.

  • The picture on each card supports word recognition without relying on decoding alone, so the set works for both phonics drills and vocabulary matching games.

  • With 48 words across 16 pages, the deck is large enough to split across several small-group sessions rather than covering it in one sitting.

Skills covered

  • CVCC decoding with consonant blends — students read words ending in blends such as -nd, -mp, -nk and -st (sand, jump, wink, west).

  • CVCC decoding with consonant digraphs — students read words ending in digraphs such as -sh, -th and -ck (fish, moth, sock).

  • Picture-word matching — each card pairs an illustration with its word, supporting recognition alongside decoding.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

What range of word endings does the set cover?

The 48 words include consonant blends such as -nd, -mp, -nk and -st, plus digraphs such as -sh, -th and -ck, so several different final-sound patterns appear rather than just one.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • CCSS.RF.1.3.a — Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
  • CCSS.RF.1.3.b — Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

Core concepts

  • CVCC word pattern

  • consonant blends

  • consonant digraphs

  • picture-word matching

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