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What are CVC Words?

July 16, 2020lucyteachchildrenLeave a comment

The letter C means a consonant letter is required.
The letter V means that a vowel letter is required.
So, a CVC word is one that has a consonant letter followed by a vowel and then a consonant as in the following examples:
cat dog mat
There are 26 letters in the English alphabet and these can be split in to two categories:
Vowels – ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, ‘u’ and the letter ‘y’, when it is used as a semi-vowel, in words such as by, my and fly.
Consonants – ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘d’, ‘f’, ‘g’, ‘h’, ‘j’, ‘k’, ‘l’, ‘m’, ‘n’, ‘p’, ‘q’, ‘r’, ‘s’, ‘t’, ‘v’, ‘w’, ‘x’, ‘z’ and the letter ‘y’ when it is being used as a consonant, in words such as yak, yam and yellow.
Schools will often use the abbreviation CV, CVC, CVCC words when sending home phonics work or suggestions for phonics games. It is also used by many phonics computer games, activity programs and schemes.
Here are some examples for:

CV & VC	CVC	CVCC
as	bat	lamp
at	cat	milk
be	dog	tent
by	fog	hump
he	hot	band
if	pig	tilt
in	peg	want
is	lap	pond
it	mop	jump
me	net	just
my	put	nest
no	but	send
on	set	went
so	tap	wind
to	zig	bend

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The Consonant Sounds with their Most Common Letter and Letter Combinations

November 7, 2019lucyteachchildrenLeave a comment

There are 24 consonant sounds in the English language. A consonant sound is made (produced) when the air flow is being restricted in some way, which means that the mouth doesn’t open as wide and so the jaw doesn’t drop noticeably, which is different from vowel sounds.
Here is a list of just some of the most commonly seen letter and letter combinations used to represent the 24 consonant sounds. For a more comprehensive lists check out our English Phoneme Chart or Alphabet Keyboard which can be found on our ‘Phonemes’ page: bit.ly/1Qgc9dA

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  /b,(b)/ bin, rabbit
  
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  /k,(k)/ cat, key, duck, queen, anchor, broccoli
  
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  /ch,(ʧ)/ church, watch
  
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  /d,(d)/ dog, ladder, towed
  
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  /f,(f)/ fish, puffin, phone, laugh
  
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  /g,(g)/ girl, digger, ghost
  
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  /h,(h)/ hen, who
  
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  /j,(ʤ)/ jigsaw, giant, bridge
  
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  /l,(l)/ lion, llama
  
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  /m,(m)/ man, hammer, lamb
  
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  /n,(n)/ nest, penny, knife, gnome
  
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  /ng,(ŋ)/ king, sink
  
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  /p,(p)/ panda, hippo
  
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  /r,(r)/ robin, lorry, wrist
  
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  /s,(s)/ sun, dress, city, geese, castle
  
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  /sh,(ʃ)/ ship, chef, delicious, initials, sugar
  
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  /t,(t)/ tent, butterfly, jumped
  
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  /th,(θ)/ thumb
  
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  /th,(ð)/ feather, breathe
  
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  /v,(v)/ van, sleeve, of
  
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  /w,(w)/ well, whale, penguin
  
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  /y,(j)/ yo-yo, euro
  
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  /z,(z)/ zero, puzzle, sneeze, cheese, is
  
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  /zh,(Ʒ)/ measure, television
  

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