Manipulating CVC Words
CVC words are words in the form: Consonant, Vowel, Consonant: e.g. cat
Explain to your child that you are going try and change the sounds in a word to
make a new word.
Use colour counters to help symbolise each sound in the word.
Use the word lists provided on the next page.
Yum Yum
Use a yummy food, e.g. sultanas, jellybeans. Call out a CVC word, and get your child to
place one jellybean out for each sound in the word. Then call out a manipulation
instruction.
Deletion example: “What’s ‘peg’ without the ‘p’?”. Help your child identify which
jellybean represents the ‘p’ sound, and remove it. They must then sound out what
is left to produce the new word ‘egg’. Once done, they can eat the jellybean they
removed.
Change example: “How do we change ‘mat’ to ‘man’?”. First help your child sound
out each word: ‘m..a..t’, ‘m..a..n’. Then get them to figure out which sound is
different – the last one. Finally, let them remove the last jellybean and switch it for
another one. They can then eat the one they removed!
c
a
t
Parts in a Game
Play any game where there are lots of pieces, e.g. puzzles, Lego, Pop up Pirate, Beetle.
Call out a CVC word, and get your child to put one piece of the game out for each
sound in the word. Then call out a manipulation instruction as above.
Once they have carried it out correctly let them use those 3 pieces in the game.
Make it Easier
Lay out the same number of counters
as sounds in the word, e.g. 3
counters for the word ‘cat’.
Focus on short sounds, such as in
Table 1.
Make it Harder
Don’t use any visual support (e.g.
counters / sweets) .
Focus on long sounds, such as in
Table 2.
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Manipulating CVC Word List
Note, start with deletion tasks, and then try some change tasks.
Deletion tasks
Say ........ without the .........
Deletion of
Initial
Bait (b)
Feet (f)
Peg (p)
Bin (b)
Cup (k)
Boat (b)
Fat (f)
Gone (g)
Cough (k)
Wake (w)
Tail (t)
Seal (s)
Told (t)
Door (d)
Bought (b)
Deletion of
Final
Seat (t)
Keep (p)
Rain (n)
Moon (n)
Late (t)
Team (m)
Couch (ch)
Roof (f)
Boat (t)
Pain (n)
Pipe (p)
Need (d)
Feed (d)
Goat (t)
Bead (d)
Change tasks
Change ........ to .........
Final Switch
Cake cape
Pop pot
Bag bad
Pit pin
Fit fin
Lid lip
Sad sack
Mat man
Pack pan
Bin bit
Cat cab
Pen pet
Trap track
Hop hot
Sit sip
Initial Switch
Rap map
Tea key
Mop top
Run bun
Gate late
Lip sip
Far car
Hat mat
Head bed
Fan can
Cat mat
Pack back
Moon soon
Rag tag
Sick lick
Middle Switch
Seal sail
Song sing
Man moon
Hat hot
Cup cap
Seek soak
Sit seat
Soap sap
Rag rug
Tin ten
Meat moat
Peg pig
Sun sin
Fat fit
Bat bit
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