What's a CVC word? 

CVC stands for Consonant Vowel Consonant, so a CVC word is a three letter word that follows this pattern.

The word ‘cat’ is a great example of a CVC word. When you spell the word cat, first comes a consonant (c), then a short vowel (a), then another consonant (t).

With CVC words, the focus is solely on decoding letter sounds. And CVC words are perfect words for early readers because they can be decoded very easily.

How do we teach a CVC word? 

CVC words should be used to introduce the important skill of blending individual phonemes to read words.

You can begin with nonsense words (use whatever consonant and vowel sounds children know already) and integrate real words too! Children should say each individual sound (segment), then stretch the sounds together (blend), and then quickly read the word.

For Example: /m/ /a/ /t/ = mmmm aaa t = mat