Three-letter short vowel words to read, match, sort and write, in 9 kinds of sheet. The 6 short a worksheets below are free PDFs with answer keys. No sign-up.
Every sheet for every short vowel in one file, in order, ready to print: the free ones and 47 more that are only in the pack.
A picture and three look-alike words
A word and three pictures
Cut out the words, glue each by its picture
Circle the words that rhyme with the lid
Pick the sentence that matches the picture
A tiny story, then six sentences to judge
A story with four words to fill in
Say the picture, write a letter in each box
Change the vowel, write the word, draw it
CVC words are three-letter words made of a consonant, a short vowel and a consonant: cat, pin, hot, bed, sun. They are the first words a child sounds out alone. These worksheets give that child a lot of them to read, in 9 different kinds of sheet, so the practice does not feel like the same page every day.
Every word a child has to read is a three-letter short vowel word or one of sixteen first sight words (the, a, is, on, in, has, to, and, I, his, it, at, not, see, can, no). The wrong answers are chosen to look like the right one: cat sits next to can and cap, so the child has to read to the last letter and cannot guess from the first.
The sheets climb in steps. A set starts with single words (Find the Word, Circle the Picture, Cut and Glue, Rhyme Jars), moves to whole sentences (Which Sentence?) and ends with tiny stories (Yes or No?, Read and Fill In). The review set adds Swap the Vowel, where one changed letter turns bug into bag.
The 6 short a sheets on this page are free to print, each with its answer key, and the same 6 kinds are free for every other short vowel on its phonics pages. All of the pictures are black and white line art, so a class set costs nothing extra to copy and the pictures can be colored in.