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This wikiHow will show you how to use Microsoft Word to add text to an image on your computer, phone, or tablet. The Microsoft Word app is freely available for Androids, iPhones, and iPads, but you’ll need to purchase the app from Microsoft if you’re using a Windows or macOS.

Things You Should Know

  • If you’re using a computer, use a text box with no fill and no outline to overlay text on an image.
  • If you’re using the mobile Word app, insert a text box with no fill and no outline. Move the text box onto the image and edit the text.
  • Make sure to tap the checkmark on mobile app Word documents to save your work!
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    Open your project in Word. You can do this by clicking Open from the File tab, or by right-clicking the file icon in your file browser and choosing Word from the «Open with…» dialog.

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    Click the Insert tab. You’ll find this above the document in the menu toolbar or along the top of your screen.

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    Click Text Box. You’ll find this in the Text group. A menu will dropdown.

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    Click Draw Text Box. You’ll see this at the bottom of the menu that drops down.

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    Enter your text. You’ll see your text entered into a moveable object.

    • You can highlight your text and change the font size, color, and style before continuing.
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    Drag and drop your text box over the picture. Don’t deselect the text box yet.

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    Click the Format tab. You’ll find this above the document in the menu toolbar or along the top of your screen.

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    Format your text box in «Shape Styles.» You’ll want to make sure your text is not hidden by other elements.

    • Click Shape Fill and select No fill.
    • Click Shape Outline and select No outline.
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    Group the picture and text box. You can do this by clicking the picture to select it, then pressing and holding Ctrl (PC) or Cmd (Mac) and clicking the text box to select it as well. Under the Format tab, click Group.[1]

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    Open your project in Word. This app icon looks like a blue page with white writing on it, and you can find this app on your home screen, in the app drawer, or by searching. To open your project in Word, you’ll need to tap Open from the File tab.[2]

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    Tap the pencil icon (optional). If you don’t see the pencil icon above the document, you may already be in editing mode.

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    Tap the upwards-pointing arrow

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    . You’ll see this on the right of the options menu.

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    Tap Home. You’ll open up a list of toolbar options.

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    Tap Insert. You’ll see the Insert menu options.

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    Tap Text Box. You might have to scroll down to see this option.

    • After you tap this, you’ll see a text box with dummy text inserted on your page.
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    Format your text box. After you’ve inserted your text box, you’ll notice the main menu shifts to Shape. You’ll want to edit this text box from this menu.

    • From Fill, choose ‘No fill.
    • From Outline, choose No outline.
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    Tap inside the text box. A menu will pop up.

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    Tap Edit Text. Your cursor will appear in the text box. You’ll first need to delete what’s already in the text box.[3]

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    Tap the checkmark when you’re done to save your work. You’ll see this in the upper left corner of the app.

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1. Open the picture in Word.

2. Insert a new text box from the Insert tab.

3. Type in your text.

4. Drag and drop the new text box over the picture.

5. Group the picture and text box.

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More from my own editor, Catherine Fitzsimons, creator of educational materials and community magazines, on the tricky task of controlling how images behave in Word documents …

Last week, we looked at the ways in which Word can wrap text around pictures. To control how close the text is to the edge of a picture we opened the More Layout Options window from the right click menu. You may have noticed there are two other tabs in this:

Diagram 9One lets you control the size of your picture, but there are easier ways to do that (see How do I change the size of pictures in Word? on my website). The other, Position, provides some detailed options for controlling where your pictures go and is the key to stopping them from jumping around. It looks complicated, but I don’t think I’ve ever, in years of creating worksheets and doing magazine layout, had to resort to changing anything in the sections labelled ‘Horizontal’ and ‘Vertical’ – I’ve just used the ‘Options’ section.

Diagram 11Before we go on to that though have a look at the ‘Allow overlap’ button. This is useful if you want to get two pictures closer together than their boundary boxes would otherwise allow. For example, here you can see that although the books themselves don’t overlap, the boxes round them do. Notice also how the Tight-wrapped text goes inside the boxes because these images have a transparent background.

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Why do pictures move? How do I stop pictures moving?

Basically, pictures can either be locked in position on the page or moved around with the text.

In Word 2013 ‘Move with text’ and ‘Fix position on page’ appear as options on the Wrap Text menu and on the little pop out Layout Options menu (so long as your picture isn’t in line with the text).

Diagram 5Diagram 4bIn earlier versions you have to go into More Layout Options|Position and check or uncheck ‘Move object with text’ – it’s checked as default. If you have a picture exactly where you want it on a page, all you have to do is uncheck the box (or make the appropriate selection from one of the menus in Word 2013). That picture will then stay exactly where it is when you edit or add to the text or insert another picture – it will move only if you grab it and place it somewhere else yourself (or play with the numbers in the ‘Position’ tab of More Layout Options).

Allowing pictures to move with text is a little more complicated and depends on understanding the idea of anchors.

When you whizz a picture around the page, Word makes a decision about what text to tie it to: it generates an ‘anchor’, usually at the beginning of the paragraph nearest to the top left corner of the figure (working up). If you then move or delete that bit of text, the image will move or be deleted with it — that’s why pictures sometimes vanish unexpectedly. They usually jump because an anchor and its picture have to be on the same page. That means that if you type an extra paragraph and the anchor moves to a new page, the picture will jump to that new page too. It’s Word trying to be helpful, aiming to keep pictures and the writing about them together, but it does feel pretty random if you don’t know the logic.

Word 2013 helpfully shows you the anchors whenever you’re clicked on a picture, but it is possible to see them in earlier versions: since they are formatting marks, they will show up if you click the symbol that looks like a backwards P in the Paragraph group on the Home ribbon. If you can see them, they can help you work out why a picture won’t go where you want it or keeps disappearing altogether.

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In Word 2010 or 2007 you can also get the anchor marks to show all the time (without the other formatting marks) by going to File (Office button in 2007)|Options|Display|Always show these formatting marks on the screen, then ticking ‘Object anchors’ and OK.

Once you get the hang of how the wrapping styles and the anchors affect where the pictures go, it becomes much easier to put a picture in the right place and make it stay there. Here’s the order I suggest for creating a document that has words and pictures:

  • Write and type all the text first (or work a page or two at a time).
  • If possible, get the pictures as close as you can to how you want them (size, resolution, cropping, colours) before you add them to your text – either use image editing software or get it right in a blank document then copy and paste into the one you’re working on.
  • Once you have a picture where you want it, with the right sort of size and wrapping, consider locking it in place.
  • If a picture that has to stay with the text appears to be misbehaving, go in search of its anchor to track down the problem.

Still can’t get the pictures where you want?

If you’re creating something with a lot of images, or need more complex layout — such as for a brochure or worksheet — then there are alternatives to putting the text and pictures straight into the document. I explain how to use a table to combine text and pictures in How do I organise a lot of pictures on a page? over on my own blog where, in future posts, I will look at alternative solutions, and other issues to do with using pictures.

Other useful posts

On this blog:

How do I make pictures go where I want them to in Word?

On Catherine’s blog:

How do I organise a lot of pictures on a page?

How do I change the size of a picture in Word?

Word Formatting 4

Word allows you to do much more than simply insert or place graphics. For our fourth lesson in this series, we will focus on the graphic design functions in Word such as pictures, SmartArt, screenshots, and other items that can be found on the “Insert” tab.

These functions really breathe life into your drab black and white text documents. With a simple picture or chart, you can turn your term paper from meh to yeah! Luckily, there’s a whole range of ways you can add images to better illustrate (no pun intended) your point.

We’ll wrap the lesson by changing gears a bit and discussing how to use more than one language in Word 2013.

Images and Multimedia

You don’t have to think of Word as simply a word processing program. It has requisite tools for doing some pretty nifty page layout. While it’s not a feature-complete or robust as a professional page layout program such as Adobe InDesign. You can still get very professional looking results if you know what’s in your toolbox and how to use it.

Pictures and Online Pictures

Both “Pictures” and “Online Pictures” accomplish the same goal. The only difference is that “Pictures” means you can insert pictures locally, while “Online Pictures” allows you to insert images from an internet-based source such as clip art from Office.com, Bing, or OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive).

You can also insert pictures from your Facebook profile or Flickr although you could always just save the pictures you want to insert to your computer and then insert them from there if you don’t want to connect Office to these profiles.

Picture Tools

As always, when you want to edit a picture or any element place in a Word document, you can click on it and the appropriate tab will appear on the Ribbon.

With pictures, that tab is “Picture Tools.” Here we see you can make all kinds of corrections to the picture on-the-fly. For example, you can correct brightness and contrast, the color, add a border.

Where you position and how you wrap text will also play a large role in formatting your documents.

Here we see those controls. In our documents, we don’t worry so much about word wrapping or positioning because Word isn’t the final step toward publishing online. However, if you’re going to produce something WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get), such as for a PDF or print publication, then these things will definitely matter.

Also, there are a couple ways you make changes to your pictures inline, such as resizing, rotating, and moving them. In the following image, you see these controls, many of which you will likely be familiar with.

When you click on an image in your document, you get a box on each corner, which will let you resize a picture. At the top, in the middle, is a circular arrow, grab this to freely rotate your picture. To move the image, hover the mouse over the image until the pointer is the four arrows, you can then click and drag the image anywhere you like.

Finally, if you click on the little “Layout Options” button, you can change your text wrapping without going to the Ribbon.

Clicking on “See more…” at the bottom of the “Layout Options” opens the full-blown “Layout” dialog.

Note, the size tab both on the Ribbon the “Layout” dialog allows you to specifically resize, rotate, and scale your pictures, rather than relying wholly on winging it:

We’d like to spend the whole day talking about formatting images in Word, but as you can see, there’s a ton of options at your disposal. Let’s move on now to other objects you can insert into your documents, starting with “Shapes.”

Shapes

Microsoft Word 2013 comes with an array of built-in shapes, which you can use to create callouts, boxes, stars, and other shapes.

When you choose a shape, you simply draw it on a blank space on the page. It doesn’t matter if you get it perfect or just the way you want it because you can adjust it to your heart’s content once it is placed in your document.

Note in the screenshot, the previously mentioned little “handles” you can use to resize and rotate your shapes.

At the bottom of the “Shapes” menu, there’s an option to create a “new drawing canvas.” This will open, what is essentially a text box for shapes. With this drawing canvas, you can create drawings using these shapes allowing you to create things like diagrams and flowcharts.

SmartArt and WordArt

SmartArt and WordArt tend to have some overlap, particularly if you create something using WordArt and then customize any of the text within it. Of course, you can use one or the other and never the twain shall meet, but we’re going to talk about them in the same section because one often leads to the other.

Think of SmartArt as premade drawing canvases that you can insert into your document and then customize as you like. Simply pick an arrangement, such as a list, process, or cycle.

As you can see, we created a graphic based on a “Continuous Block Process.” When we click on the text boxes, we can edit what is inside. There are also the usual grab handles needed to resize the image, and the “Layout Options” allowing you to wrap text to your preference.

If you use SmartArt, note that the Ribbon changes to reflect this. The “SmartArt Tools” features two tabs: “Design” and “Format.” Let’s cover each one and its features.

The right half of the “Format” tab allows you to pick from a number of “SmartArt Styles” and you can also “Change Colors.”

If you look at our previous example, you can see we applied an embossed, shiny effect and changed the colors of our text boxes and arrow.

On the left half of the “Design” tab, you can “Create Graphic” so you can add shapes, bullets, text, and move things around.

The “Layouts” section lets you change how your graphic looks on the fly. Simply hover over any of the built-in options to see how it would look utilizing a different layout. Changes to the layout are not applied unless you first click on a style.

The right side of the “Format” tab is used for affecting changes to text. These include “WordArt Styles” and other effects suchs as fill and outline. Beyond that, you can arrange multiple layers by sending them forward and backward.

The “Layout” dialog pops out if you select the little arrow in the bottom-right corner of the “size” section or you can choose more options from any of the drop-down menus including “Position”, “Align”, and “Rotate.”

On the left side of the “Format” tab you can select any of your shapes and change them to another, and also make them larger or smaller.

If you click on “Shape Styles” you will be able to choose from a selection of pre-defined shapes and colors.

Shift right just slightly and you will find controls to alter the fill. Choose from various “Theme Colors” or select your own. You an also use pictures, gradients, and textures for even more fill options.

If you want to refine the outline around your shape(s), you can choose any color, weight, or dashes.

Finally, “Shape Effects” has quite a few options for enhancing your shapes, many of which will give them a cool 3D effect that you can adjust by clicking 3D Options at the bottom of the of the menu.

Format Text Effects

Let’s take a closer look at this because it contains a pretty sizable amount of features. We’ll cover the basics so that you’re more aware of them. The pane titled, “Format Text Effects,” slides out from the right edge.

As with any other panes in Word 2013, it can be detached, which you can then stick out of the way to save screen area, or keep it nearby so it is handy. Regardless, this dialog box will allow you to quickly work with text, so you don’t have to repeatedly keep going to the ribbon to change things. Note also that the dialog is split into functions, “Text Fill and Outline” and “Text Effects.” “Text Fill and Outline” is simple enough to figure out, and is used to enhance how text appears.

Say, for instance, we want to write How-To Geek School and enhance it so that it is size 48 pt., blue with a black 1 pt. outline. We simply select the text we want, increase to the size to 48, then in the “Format Text Effects” dialog, we can change the color (we can also do this in the “Font” section of the “Home” tab. Then under “Text Outline” we choose “Solid line” and choose block and 1 pt. for the outline width.

That looks pretty good, but we really want it to pop, let’s add some more text effects, such as a shadow, a reflection, and we’ll add a bit of a 3d bezel to round the lettering out.

The result is a bit more striking and while it’s not likely to make it into any final designs, it does give you an idea of what you can do with WordArt.

Chart

Who doesn’t like charts? Charts are a great way to visually display data sets and Word 2013 comes jam packed with a large assortment of Charts to choose from, including columns, pie, bar charts and much, much more. Check out the screenshot for an idea of just how many options there are:

When you choose a style, you’ll get a spreadsheet, which will allow you to enter the data points on your x and y axes. As you enter data, the chart will change.

Manipulating and formatting charts is easy. Whenever you click on a chart in your document, you’ll get the “Chart Tools,” which, as you might have guessed, is the Ribbon tab devoted solely to charts.

Using the “Design” tab, if you don’t like the colors or style of your chart, you can instantly apply changes to it without having to generate a new one.

If you decide you don’t think the layout works for this particular type of data, change it using “Quick Layout” or add another element such as another axis, chart title, gridlines, and more.

On the right side of the “Design” tab you will find essential tools for altering your data and you can also go back and completely change the type of chart you’re using.

So, if you think a pie chart would work better, you can change to that. Note however, some data points, such as “breakfast,” “lunch,” and “dinner” aren’t represented on this chart.

The “Chart Tools” also give you a “Format” tab so you can dress things up a bit by adding shapes and then being able to change the style, fill, and outline.

Turning to the right side of the “Format” tab, you are given options for adding and changing WordArt, arranging elements, and adjusting the size of your chart (which you can also do with the grab handles).

It’s easy also to affect changes inline too. When you click on a chart in your document, formatting controls appear along the upper-right corner. From top-to-bottom, you get “Layout options” so you can set your text wrapping. You can change chart elements with the plus (+) symbol, so if you want to change chart titles, add gridlines, and stuff like that.

The paintbrush icon is for setting a style and color them, and finally, the sieve icon is for “Chart Filters,” so you can edit data points and names on your chart.

Screenshot

The “Screenshot” feature will allow you to take a screen clip, which is automatically pasted in you document.

When you use the screenshot function, it will let you choose between any currently open windows, or you can select “Screen Clipping,” which will minimize Word allowing you to take a selection or full shot of your desktop. So for example, if you want to simply insert a shot of your desktop and its icons, you would first need to minimize everything you have open.

There’s a myriad of ways you can take and add screenshots, so we’re not going to dwell on it. Just note this feature, if you’re unfamiliar with adding screenshots, and you want an easy way to do it in Word.

Online Video

You can insert “Online Video” such as Bing, YouTube, or video embed code into your document.

When you embed a video, it will appear as if it is a regular picture, complete with grab handles and text wrap controls.

Further, you can adjust how the emedded video thumbnail appears (as a picture) using the “Picture Tools” so you can make adjustments to the color, add a border, correct the contrast and brightness, and more.

So you see, we simply applied a “picture style” and add a purple border. This is only a fraction of the stuff you can do, so if you to add some really nice looking effects and create a nice looking document that really pops, you should take your time to familiarize yourself with everything.

On the other hand, if you don’t like your changes and you want to go back to the default, simply click “Reset Picture” and it will revert to normal.

Other Text Features

Here are few more text features that you might want to be aware of though you will probably rarely use them.

Text Box

Text boxes are like their own little islands in Word. What we mean is, when you add a “Text Box” to your documents, it is immune to changes you make to the rest of the document. It is like a document within a document.

This is useful if you want to present something “as is” in your work, be able to make overarching changes to the document’s formatting, but have something you’ve pasted remain unchanged.

For the most part, text boxes are something of a bane to an editor’s existence because they don’t play nice with styles (Lesson 5). You may find them extremely convenient and that’s perfectly fine, but if you want something that conforms to your document’s style and formatting, but still place it in a box or have a border around it, then we recommend simply adding a border, which we covered in Lesson 2 – Shading and Borders.

Drop Cap

Drop caps are simply that one letter at the beginning of a chapter or book that is larger than the rest:

You can either make your drop cap “Dropped” (the text below it shifts underneath it) or “In Margin.” Check out the “Drop Cap” options for more power over how your drop caps behave.

Using More than One Language

If you want to produce content in a language other than the one that comes with Word by default, you will likely need to purchase it. Open the Word “Options” and click on “Language.”

Pick the language you want to add from the dropdown list and then click the “Add” button. When you add a language, you will need to enable it, which means that you will have to turn it on in the “Control Panel.”

From here, you can write in the language, but Word won’t display in it, in other words, menus and help systems will still appear in the default language. To get the full multilingual experience, you may need to purchase a language pack from Microsoft.

To see what languages are available for purchase, and how much, click on “Not installed” and you will be whisked to the Microsoft Office website.

If you want to add proofing tools, such as spellcheck, grammar check, and/or screen tooltips, then you may be able to simply download them for free.

While it’s doubtful you’ll be using Word in full multilingual mode, it’s nice to know how you can affect those changes. Moreover, most languages are freely available to use system-wide so actually creating a document in another language is well within your reach, for free.

Coming up Next…

So that concludes this section. We know it’s been a lot to absorb but you’ll see that after a while, this stuff is a cinch!

Once you get the hang of one skill, the rest is pretty similar and comes easier. By now you should have more than enough knowledge to create awesome documents with lists, tables, pictures, video, and anything you need to create a true multimedia publication!

Don’t forget though, if you’ve missed anything in this series you can always go back and read our introduction in Lesson 1, all that stuff on paragraphs and lists in Lesson 2, and all-important tables and other formatting options in Lesson 3.

In our final lesson, Lesson 5, we will cover styles, templates, and themes. It doesn’t sound like much, but they can be a fantastic way to not only save tons of time and create consistently formatted documents, but quickly apply themes that will instantly affect the entire appearance of your documents, as well as create templates that you can later use over and over again!

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CVC words meaning:  a three letter word made up of a consonant, vowel, consonant (ex. cat). The CVC pattern will always go in the order of consonant, vowel, consonant.  The consonants and vowels change but the c-v-c pattern will remain the same.  Sometimes these words are referred to as ‘CVC a words’ or ‘a CVC words’.  This tells you what vowel will be in the middle of the word.   For example, ‘i CVC words’ or ‘CVC i words’ would include words such as six, fin, or tin; always with an i as the vowel.  

what is a cvc word

Below is a list of CVC words.  This CVC words list gives some examples of CVC words for kindergarten.

picture of cvc words list

Students are introduced to CVC words once they begin to learn the letters and the sounds the letters make.  They can begin to put the sounds together to make words.  This can be done in reading, writing, or hearing and producing the spoken sounds (as in phonemic awareness activities).

How to Teach CVC Words

Teaching CVC words is important when students are learning to read.  One way to teach CVC words is with Elkonin Boxes.  In a small group setting, give each student a mat with a different picture and three small manipulatives that fit inside each box.  Have students place one manipulative under each box on their page. Tell them a CVC word, starting with one of the student’s pictures (ex. Teacher says, “Sally’s picture is a fox, let’s sound out fox.”)  All students in your group follow the next steps even if their picture is not the word you call out. As you and students say each sound in the word, they slide one manipulative in a box, going from left to right.  Once you have gone over all three sounds and all manipulatives are in the boxes, have students slide their finger under the boxes from left to right slowly and blend the sounds together. Then have them slide their finger fast under the boxes and read the word. Continue with other CVC words, use the pictures that are on the other students’ Elkonin Box pages.  You can also have students sound out any CVC word in the boxes, it does not have to match the picture.  Start with simple CVC words.  

cvc words

Reading CVC Words

We teach many reading strategies when students are learning to read.  One reading strategy we teach is Sound Out The Word. When teaching and practicing this strategy, it is best to have books that have a lot of CVC words in them.  This gives them practice focusing on this one strategy of decoding CVC words.  There are some great CVC books to use when teaching this strategy. See below for our favorites, BOB books and I Can Read. Don’t have any of these and teaching the lesson soon?  Look through the pages of the books you already have for CVC words.  Dr. Seuss books usually have plenty of CVC kindergarten words.  You can read the book and when you get to a CVC word, stop and let the student/s read that word.  We love Dr. Seuss books when students are learning to read CVC words.  They are filled with fun and easy CVC words. 

Click on the books to purchase on Amazon.  

Sample Reading CVC Words Lesson

Start off the lesson by showing them a CVC word written on a sentence strip or white board.  Show them how to read CVC words by sounding out each letter, then blending the letters together to form the word. Do this with a few CVC words, and invite them to help you with the sounds and blending them together. Then show them the book they are to read and tell them they will be using this strategy to help them read the book. If some of your students are having trouble producing the sounds, it might be helpful to show them some CVC words with pictures.  The pictures can help them produce the sounds of the letters.  

picture of cvc words on sentence strips

Writing CVC Words

When teaching how to write with cvc words, we ask students to say the words as slowly as they can listening to each sound they hear.  We ask them to use this writing strategy to write all of their words, but sometimes they skip over some of their sounds or add in extra sounds.  So we take time to practice sounding out words together. Students sit on the learning carpet with a dry erase board, dry erase marker, and eraser. We call out CVC words, one at a time, and students say them slowly and put down the sounds they hear. This is a great lesson to watch and see where they might be having trouble and be able to guide them in the right direction. 

picture of white board and marker with the word run

CVC Word Practice Packets

There were many times where I felt that, towards the end of the year, most of my students mastered the skill of blending CVC words, but I still had one or two students who were struggling.  I was lucky enough to have a paraprofessional in my class for a few hours a day, so I had her work with these students to catch them up.  I made a packet of many different CVC word worksheets. Every morning during sign in, my paraprofessional pulled those students to a table for some CVC practice.  She worked on the worksheets with them.  This only took five minutes each morning, but it was such a big help!  The students showed tremendous growth.  Our CVC worksheets are self-explanatory and ready to be put into a packet.  So if you don’t have a wonderful paraprofessional in your class, you can send this home for extra CVC word practice with their parents.

picture cvc word worksheets in a packet

Worksheets for CVC Words

We have made some excellent kindergarten CVC words worksheets! There are twenty three pages of activities for CVC words that include:

  • Sound out and write the words underneath the pictures. (one page for each vowel and a few pages with mixed vowels)
  • Use a word bank to fill in the CVC words.
  • CVC Reading: Circle the CVC word that matches the picture.
  • Circle and color the CVC pictures that end with the matching letters at the beginning of each row.
  • Unscramble the CVC word, write the word, then color the matching picture. (These pages are for students who are ready for a little more challenge.)

picture of cvc worksheet with a wordbook and pictures

cvc-words-worksheets

picture of cvc worksheet unscramble the word

Frequently Asked Questions

CVC words means 3 letter words with consonant vowel consonant in that order.   You can find samples of consonant vowel consonant words in the common CVC words list above. 

CVC pattern words are mostly learned in kindergarten.  Although some kids learn some of these words at an earlier or later age.  See the list above for an example of CVC words kindergarten uses.

A CVC verb is any verb with the consonant, vowel, consonant pattern.  The words run, sit, jog, dig are all CVC verbs. 

Students should work on a variety of CVC words; words with each vowel and  different consonants at the beginning and the end.  The more they practice, the easier it will be for them to read new CVC words. 

CVCC words are consonant, vowel, consonant, consonant words like mash or jump.  CCVC words are consonant, consonant, vowel, consonant like flap or stop. 

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    The examples were great help

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On this side of the card, you have the tasks (most of them are from the book p 11). First, discuss them together, complete them, somebody should type your answer to the Shared Notes in the BBB. Then turn the card to check. If you have any questions, write them down to the shared notes. Don’t forget to copy the text from shared notes before leaving the breakout room!

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On this side of the card, you have the tasks (most of them are from the book p 11). First, discuss them together, complete them, somebody should type your answer to the Shared Notes in the BBB. Then turn the card to check. If you have any questions, write them down to the shared notes. Don’t forget to copy the text from shared notes before leaving the breakout room!

3a Find words in the article that mean the following. Don’t forget the phrases from 2b! some words can be there.

1 describe something again, and in a better way (paragraph 2)
2 not understand correctly (paragraph 2)
3 not as good as some people think or say (paragraph 2)
4 used something in the wrong way or for a wrong purpose (paragraph 4)
5 a person who used to be very successful and powerful in business (paragraph 4)

type your answer to the Shared Notes in the BBB, then check the answers on the other side of the card

4b Think of a word with a prefix that means the same as the UPPER CASE words in these sentences.

1 He was always TOO CONFIDENT.
2 His team PLAYED MUCH BETTER than the other team.
3 She asked her FORMER BOSS for advice.
4 His mother’s French and his father’s Italian, so he’s ABLE TO SPEAK TWO LANGUAGES FLUENTLY.
5 He told me to WRITE the essay AGAIN.
6 His ability was NOT AS GREAT AS PEOPLE BELIEVED.
7 She DID NOT CORRECTLY UNDERSTAND the lecturer.
8 I DON’T LIKE people who don’t listen when I’m talking.

type your answer to the Shared Notes in the BBB, then check the answers on the other side of the card

One word for 3 sentences!
There will be 5 cards like that. All the words are from the previous exercises.

1 There must be some reason why some small businesses ______________ others that decade .
2 Traditionally, girls have ______________ boys in reading and writing.
3 The company has consistently ______________ its larger competitors.

type your answer to the Shared Notes in the BBB, then check the answers on the other side of the card

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