Hearing Middle Sounds

Consonant-vowel-consonant or CVC words include examples such as paw, cow and pop. Identifying these words and understanding the sound that they make is crucial to building reading fluency. This guided lesson provides practise with CVC words by focusing on their intial, medial and ending sounds. You can boost learning with our supplemental worksheets that offer more practise with CVC words.

Knowing how to read short O words like hot, pot, and top takes practise. This guided lesson can help kids master the short O sound. Kids will be taught to identify the short O within common sight words, which will boost reading fluency. Don't forget to check out the short O printables at the end of the lesson to continue the learning.

This guided lesson focuses on short U, as in jump, sun, and duck. Kids learn how to recognise and read this sound, then practise with short U words. Breaking up lessons based on vowel sounds helps kids chunk concepts together, easing retention and boosting phonics skills. Once you are through with the lesson, consider downloading some of the accompanying short U printables for extended learning.