📖 ReadingLevel 1Lesson 2
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Blending CVC Words

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Learning Objectives

  • 1Blend three sounds — consonant + vowel + consonant — to read a short CVC word
  • 2Identify the middle vowel sound when sounding out a CVC word
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Mini Lesson

In Lesson 1 you learned the five short vowel sounds. Now we are going to use those sounds to read real words! A CVC word has three letters: a Consonant, a Vowel, and another Consonant.

What is blending?

  • Blending means saying each sound one at a time, then pushing them together into a word.
  • Example: c – a – t → /k/ /a/ /t/ → cat
  • Think of it like sliding sounds down a ramp into one smooth word.

The three-step blend

  • Step 1 — Start sound: Say the first consonant sound. /s/
  • Step 2 — Middle sound: Say the vowel sound. /i/
  • Step 3 — End sound: Say the last consonant. /t/
  • Now blend: /s/ /i/ /t/ → sit

Common CVC word families

  • -at family: cat, hat, bat, mat, sat, rat
  • -in family: bin, fin, pin, tin, win
  • -op family: hop, mop, pop, top, cop
  • -en family: hen, pen, ten, men, den
  • -ug family: bug, hug, mug, rug, tug
Vocabulary
Blending
Saying each sound one at a time and then pushing them together to make a whole worde.g. /k/ /a/ /t/ → cat
Word family
A group of CVC words that share the same ending vowel-consonant patterne.g. -at family: cat, hat, bat, mat
Three CVC words blended from separate soundsThree rows — c-a-t, s-u-n, m-a-p — each showing three letter boxes joined by arrows into a whole word on the right.Blend the sounds → read the wordcatcatsunsunmapmapSay each sound, then push them together!
Three sounds blend into one word — cat, sun, map.
Sound to word flow — finger, mouth shapes, blended wordTop: a finger points along the letters s, i, t. Middle: three mouth shapes show each sound. Bottom: the letters are joined into the word sit.Sound → Wordsitpoint under each letter/s//i//t/sit
Point, sound each letter, then blend — /s/ /i/ /t/ → sit.
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Ask yourself: "What is the first sound? What is the middle sound? What is the last sound? Now blend!"

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Guided Practice

Read each page slowly. Use the Sound Pad if you need to check a sound. After each page, point to any CVC word and blend it aloud: "What are the three sounds? Now blend!"

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Exercises

Sound out each word and type it in the box. Use the Sound Pad to help you check each sound.

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🐱 c – a – t →
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🐶 d – o – g →
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☀️ s – u – n →
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🐔 h – e – n →
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🦟 b – u – g →
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🎩 h – a – t →
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📌 p – i – n →
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🧹 m – o – p →
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🖊️ p – e – n →
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🐀 r – a – t →

1. What does CVC stand for?

2. What does blending mean?

3. Where is the vowel in a CVC word?

4. What word do these sounds make? s – i – t

5. Which of these is a CVC word?

6. What word do these sounds make? h – o – p

7. Which word belongs to the same word family as "cap" and "nap"?

8. What is the middle sound in the word "pen"?

9. Which correctly shows the three sounds of the word "bug"?

10. Why is blending an important reading skill?

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Assessment

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