What is sight words and CVC words in phonics

A step by step guide to teach phonics - Phase 2

As you have known about phonics introduction in the 'What is Phonics| Step by Step guide to teaching phonics for children. Before you are getting into this post, make sure you have gone through the phonics introduction post. As you know, phonics means reading a word through the sounds of the letters. In this article, you will know about

Sight words
CVC
Blends
Digraphs

Sight words

There are some words that cannot be read through the letter's sound. Instead, these words are read as such. These types of words are known as sight words. These words are to be memorized by the children. Before phonics introduction, the education system follows the sight word strategy to teach the words to the students. In the early days, we were read a word as such. The exception in phonics is sight words. You can start introducing the sight words along with the alphabet sounds.

The most commonly used sight word lists are Fry words or Dolch words. The sight words are also referred to as snap words, instant words, service words, and high-frequency words. The sight word types are of two - frequently used words and non-phonetic words.

The Frequently Used Words are the words that are used frequently in the English language. The words such as in, at, can, and, here, and so on. Non-phonetic words are words that you cannot decode phonetically.

Sight words - Level A

and	at	away	big
blue	can	come	down
find	for	funny	help
here	go	if	I
it	is	in	jump
look	little	make	man
no	not	me	my
one	play	run	red
see	the	three	said
to	two	up	us
we	where	yellow	you

Sight words - Level B

all	did	new	she
am	do	now	so
are	eat	on	soon
ate	four	our	that
be	good	out	there
black	get	please	they
black	have	pretty	this
brown	he	ran	too
but	into	ride	under
came	like	saw	want
day	must	say	was

Sight words - Level C

after	from	know	part	thank
again	give	let	place	them
an	going	live	put	then
any	had	may	round	thing
ask	hand	mother	same	think
by	has	more	small	time
could	her	of	some	walk
each	him	old	still	water
end	his	once	stop	were
every	how	open	take	words
fly	just	over	than	when

Sight words - Level D

also	call	green	or	those
always	cold	home	page	turn
animal	does	its	pull	upon
ar	don’t	line	read	use
around	even	made	right	very
because	fast	many	sing	wash
been	first	means	sleep	which
before	five	most	spell	wish
best	found	move	tell	work
both	gave	need	their	would
buy	goes	off	these	write

Sight words - Level E

about	dink	kind	other	warm
another	fall	large	own	world
better	follow	laugh	people	year
boy	far	learn	pick	sentence
bring	full	light	show	picture
carry	great	long	together	seven
change	hold	much	small	shall
clean	grow	myself	start	your
different	house	never	today	will
done	hurt	number	through	with
draw	keep	only	try	yes

Consonant Vowel Consonant (CVC) words

The CVC words are the words that are the combination of consonant-vowel-consonant sounds. It is segmenting or splitting the sounds of a word. The words are segmented into three sounds beginning sounds-middle sound- end sound. This segmentation helps in words forming.

Example: bat, bag, cap.

List of short CVC words

ab	cab, dab, gab, lab, nab, tab, blab, crab, grab, slab, stab
at	bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, pat, rat, sat, flat, chat
ad	Bad, had, lad, mad, pad, sad, glad
an	Ban, can, fan, man, pan, ran, tan, van, plan, scan, than
ag	Bag, lag, nag, rag, sag, tag, flag, drag, snag
ap	Cap, gap, lap, map, nap, rap, tap, chap, clap, slap, trap
am	Dam, ham, jam, yam, clam, scam, swam
ack	Back, hack, jack, lack, pack, rack, sack, black, crack, quack, snack, track
ash	Cash, hash, mash, rash, clash, crash, flash, smash
others	Gas, wax, tax, bath

List of short e CVC words

ed	red, fed, wed, shed, fled
eg	beg, leg
en	hen, men, ten, then
et	bet, get, met, net, set, wet
ell	bell, sell, tell, well, smell, spell
eck	deck, neck, check
others	yes, step

List of short o CVC words

ob	cob, job, mob, rob, glob, knob, snob
og	dog, fog, hog, jog, log, blog, frog
ot	Cot, hot, lot, pot, not, rot, knot, plot, shot, spot
op	Cop, hop, mop, pop, chop, crop, drop, shop, stop
ock	Dock, lock, rock, block, clock, flock, shock, stock
others	Box, fox, mom

List of short i CVC words

id	bid, did, kid, lid, rid, skid
ig	big, dig, fig, pig, wig
im	him, rim, brim, slim, swim, trim
in	bin, fin, pin, sin, tin, win, chin, skin, spin, thin, twin
ip	dip, hip, lip, sip, tip, chip, clip, slip, slip, trip
it	bit, fit, hit, sit, slit, spit
ick	kick, lick, sick, click, quick, stick, thick
ish	fish, dish, wish, swish
other	him, this, fix

List of short u CVC words

ub	cub, hub, rub, sub, tub
ud	bud, mud, stud
ug	bug, hug, mug, plug
um	bum, gum, drum, plum, slum
un	bun, fun, gun, run, sun
ut	but, cut, hut, nut, shut
uck	luck, suck, tuck, pluck, stuck, truck
ush	gush, lush, rush, bush, blush, brush, crush
other	bus, cup

Blends

When two or more letters combined together it forms distinct consonant sounds. Example: bl, cl, fl, and so on. It can replace only the first consonant in CVC/CCVC words. These are also known as consonant blends.

In 2 letter consonant blends, the two consonant letters replace the first consonant in CVC. Example: flask, class, and so on.

In 3 letter consonant blends, the first consonant in CVC is replaced with three consonant letters. Example: throw, spring, square, and so on.

Digraph

When 2 letters are combined together form a single sound. It is also a part of blends. The digraph can either replace the first consonant or a second consonant in CVC words.

For example: sh, ch, th, wh, and so on.

Example: sheep, shut, flash, wash.

Difference between the blends and digraphs

Blends

Digraphs

When two or more letters combined together it forms distinct consonant sounds.

It can replace only the first consonant in the CVC words

When two letters combined together, it forms single sound

It can either replace the first consonant or a second consonant in the CVC words.

Final Note

This article helps you to teach the sight words, CVC words, Blends, and digraph for your children in a step-by-step method. You can always start with an introduction to letter sounds, blending, segmenting, digraphs. In the next post, you will know about diphthongs, magic e, long vowel sound, short vowel sound, and sentence formation. 'Momovators' is always and forever to assist you in education, parenting, and fitness. In case you have queries on the above topic, please comment below.