Become a super sleuth with this fun, free printable Detective Themed CVC Words Short e reader. This cvc short e is a great way to help preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students to practice the phonics skills they’ve been learning on letter sounds, beginning sounds, middle sounds, and ending sounds to make words!
CVC Short E
Children will love the fun detective theme of these CVC Short e printable. Plus parents, teachers, and homeschoolers will love that this CVC Words Short e reader is low prep and perfect for helping students work on their reading skills while learning CVC words. Use this cvc activity with kindergarteners, preschoolers and grade 1 students.
CVC Words Short e
Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> Download <<. The pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie. Now print off all the pages in the template. As there are two pages of the reader on each letter size sheet, you will need to cut out the reader book and staple together. This reader could also be held together by placing a binder ring in the top left hand corner. This method may prove easier for children to complete each page.
CVC Words Printables
There are a variety of activities included in this reader. At the start of the book is a list of all the CVC words that will be learned throughout the book. Children can practice reading and writing these words then color in the picture when they have learned them.
- bed
- gem
- leg
- net
- pen
- pep
- Rex
- web
Help the Detective unscramble the letters to spell the picture in the binoculars
The next few pages in the book contain a couple of activities. There is a pair of binoculars that contains a picture of one of the CVC words they have learnt at the start of the book. The letters to spell the word are scrambled. After they read the sentence which is great for sight word practice as well, they will unscramble the letters to make the CVC word. Once this is completed, they can decorate the detective and the binoculars.
The last page of the reader contains a strip of letter formation practice of the short vowel sound that they have been working on throughout the book. This printable pack is filled with super cute clipart your child can color with crayons, markers, or colored pencils as it comes in black and white to save you on printer ink costs.
CVC Words Worksheets
Looking for more fun cvc printables to help your children practice reading, writing, and spelling cvc words as they improve phonics skills and begin to read independently? You will love these free cvc activities.
- Pirate CVC Short A Words Printable Reader
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- Christmas CVC Words on Santa’s Sleigh. If you are looking for a fun way to practice CVC words with a holiday theme, you will love this free printable activity.
- This super cute Planting Carrots CVC Words Activity is a great way for kids to improve reading while having fun with an educational activity.
- 4th of July CVC Words Activity. Sneak in some summer learning with this sight words activity for early learners.
- Make practicing Short Vowel CVC Words with these engaging puzzles. This is such a fun, low prep, free printable literacy activity.
- Scarecrow CVC Words Activity is a fun fall themed literacy activity for preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders.
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This is such a cute activity and I can’t wait to use it in centers. Just wanted to let you know that the link for the detective short e book actually takes you to the pirate short a book.
Thanks for letting me know. I fixed the linking and you are good to go now. Have a great week!
Hi Beth! Thank you so much for sharing your work with us parents. It is appreciated more than you know!! I was trying to download the CVC short e printable book but it kinks to the a book.
all fixed, thanks for the heads up =)