Color by Nonsense Word Worksheets For CVC Words, Set 2

Color by Nonsense Word Worksheets
For CVC Words, Set 2
These Color by Nonsense Word Worksheets were created to give children a fun way to practice phonics skills and comprehension when reading those all important three letter words with a CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) spelling pattern. This
packet has 40 worksheets for the 13 word families included in the HeidiSongs CVC Workbook, Volume Two, including ap, ag,
ad, id, im, od, og, ed, em, um, ud, ub, up.. (See the next page for more details.)
When beginning readers learn to read a simple three letter CVC word, such as “cat” or “dog,” they sometimes resort to
“word calling” and forget to pay any attention to the actual word that they just read. Does the word make sense? Does it
mean anything? Other children may try to memorize these words rather than learn to sound them out, and that becomes a
problem when they are suddenly confronted many DOZENS of these tiny words that all start to look alike!
One solution is to give the children some words to read that are “real” and actually make sense, and have them compare
them to “nonsense words.” Nonsense words are really made up words that mean nothing at all, at least in standard English!
So the children are forced to think about the meanings of each word and decide if each one is an actual word that means
something or not. In these worksheets, the children must color the objects or sections in each picture a specific color, depending on whether it is a real word or not.
Reading nonsense words is also good practice for reading long, multisyllabic words such as “encyclopedia,” “condominium,”
“auditorium,” or “hippopotamus.” That’s because each syllable is made up of small nonsense words! Children with solid
phonics skills can be trained to apply those skills to any word, long or short.
They should be able to take a word apart, syllable by syllable, and read it without
guessing.
To get kids started using these worksheets, I recommend that you do these
worksheets TOGETHER as a group. I did it in small groups by first showing the
children the letters on large flash cards and helping them sound out the words.
Together, we decided if the word had any meaning or not. Then we all colored
them together. When almost all of the sections were colored, I released the
group to do the rest of the worksheet on their own. For more information on
this, see Heidi’s blog post titled, “NEW! Color by Nonsense Word Worksheets
for CVC Words!”
CVC Words Included in This Set
-ap
-ag
-ad
id
im
od
og
ed
em
cap
gap
lap
map
nap
sap
tap
yap
zap
bag
gag
jag
lag
mag
rag
sag
tag
wag
bad
dad
fad
had
lad
mad
pad
sad
bid
did
hid
kid
lid
mid
rid
Sid
dim
him
Jim
Kim
rim
Tim
cod
nod
pod
rod
sod
bog
dog
fog
hog
jog
log
bed
fed
led
red
Ted
wed
Em
hem
them
um
ud
ub
up
gum
hum
mum
sum
yum
bud
cud
dud
mud
cub
rub
sub
tub
cup
pup
up
yup
© 2014 Heidi Butkus www.heidisongs.com
These are all of the words included in this set, in the order
that they appear. These words
are also featured in HeidiSongs
CVC Book, Vol. 2! This is an awesome resource for helping children
practice sounding out and reading
these beginning words. Check out
all of the great resources for the
CVC Book Vol. 1 here, too!
Real words: blue
fap
Nonsense words: yellow
cap
Read and color!
da
p
vap
map
la
p
p
a
d
zap
nap
tap
p
a
v
fap
lap
p
ta
dap hap
map
cap
vap
hap
nap
Name:
Name
CVC -ap word family
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Real words: black
Nonsense words: white
mag
Read and color!
sag
gag
rag
bag
kag
dag
gag
yag
wa
g
yag
dag
ra
g
lag
wag
pag
mag
Name:
Name
g
a
p
pag
mag
tag bag
kag
lag
yag
rag
wag
kag
g
ba
CVC -ag word family
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Real words: red
Read and color!
Nonsense words: blue
lag
dad
rag
d
a
n
bad
bag
had
mad
lad
dag
Name:
Name
pag
pad
yag
vad
gag
pag
sad
yad
zad
yag
kag
tag
kag
zad sag
yad
wag
CVC -ad & -ag word family
nad
© 2014 Heidi Butkus www.heidisongs.com