CVC Words: Phonics & Blending

CVC Words: Phonics & Blending helps a child learn to read by sounding out short words. Every letter has its own sound, spoken clearly in American English. A child taps each sound, slides a finger under the word to blend the sounds together, then hears the word and sees its picture. Next the child reads words alone and builds words from their sounds, one word family at a time, through every short vowel.

BLEND SOUNDS INTO CVC WORDS
Three letter tiles sit above an arrow. Tap a letter to hear its sound. Then slide along the arrow: each sound plays as the finger reaches its letter, and the whole word follows with its picture. Children feel c, a and t turn into cat. Blending turns letter sounds into reading, and here a child does it with a finger, at their own speed.

READ ON YOUR OWN
After blending, the word appears with no sound. The child reads it and picks the matching picture from three. For words with no picture, such as got or yet, the child listens to three spoken words and picks the one that matches the written word. The wrong choices differ by one sound, so a child must read every letter, not guess from the first one. A wrong pick brings the sound tiles back as help.

BUILD WORDS WITH SOUND BOXES
Hear a word, then fill three sound boxes from five letter tiles. Every tile plays its sound when touched, so a child hears when a sound does not fit. This trains the other half of phonics: hearing each sound in a word and matching it to a letter, the first step to spelling.

WORD FAMILIES AND SHORT VOWELS
More than 100 decodable three-letter words, grouped into word families such as -at, -an, -ig, -op and -ug. Children start with short a, then short i, o, u and e, which is the order many phonics programs use, because e and i are the hardest pair to tell apart. A final level mixes every vowel. Every word has one letter for each sound, so blending the sounds always reaches the right word.

PURE LETTER SOUNDS
Each sound is the sound itself, not the name of the letter. Sounds like m and s are held long enough to hear, and sounds like t and p are short puffs of air, with no extra "uh". That matters for blending: "tuh-a-puh" never sounds like tap, but t-a-p does. A sounds chart plays every letter sound with a picture word.

STARS, TRICKY WORDS AND PROGRESS
Each level ends with up to three stars, earned from first tries, so the stars show how the reading really went. Any word a child misses goes on a tricky words list for a quick extra round, and it leaves the list once the child reads it right. Grown-ups see progress for each short vowel and the letter sounds that need more practice.

PRINTABLE CVC WORKSHEETS
Print sound box pages, read-and-match pages and cut-out word cards for any level, using the same pictures and the same letter shapes as the screen. Practice on paper at home or in class, or save a PDF to share.

MADE FOR PARENTS, TEACHERS AND HOMESCHOOL
Give each child a profile with their own levels, stars and tricky words. The letters use a typeface made for beginning readers, with the a and g that children see in books. Steps are short, so a few minutes a day is enough.

GOOD FOR
Preschool, kindergarten and first grade children who know some letter sounds and are ready to read words. Phonics practice beside school reading lessons. Homeschool reading. Children learning English as a new language.

CALM, SAFE PRACTICE
No ads and no accounts. Lessons work offline, so practice can happen in the car or at the kitchen table. Progress stays on your device unless you choose to save a backup file, which also lets you move progress to a new device.

GOOD TO KNOW
This app teaches English phonics with an American English voice. The screens are translated into many languages, while the words, letters and sounds stay in English.

Sound out, blend and read: one short word at a time.

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