Short vowel words: cat, pig: K to 2nd reading & writing
Short vowels and CVC words, blended sound by sound. A free K to 2nd lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: short vowels and CVC words, blended sound by sound.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: what do you already know about short vowel words: cat, pig?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (10 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: short vowel words: cat, pig.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner the idea in their own words.
Practise (15 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Read: Books you can sound out (https://peabody.kids/decodable-readers)
- Play: Short a words (https://peabody.kids/words/ck-cvc-a)
- Play: Deep Dig (https://peabody.kids/games/dig)
- Print: CVC word sheets (https://teach.peabody.kids/cvc-worksheets)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about short vowel words: cat, pig, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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