Winter CVC Printable Reading Game for Kids

CVC words are simple three-letter words that follow the pattern (consonant, vowel, consonant). Each word begins and ends with a consonant and has a short vowel in the middle.

CVC Word Game

CVC words are often the first words that children learn to read. These words help children understand letter-sound connections, short vowel sounds, and how to blend sounds into words. These skills are foundational for reading longer words later. 

Today I have a new free printable CVC word game for you to use with your students. This game has a winter theme. The game is fun for students and will help them learn to read words on their own and grow their mastery of simple words which will help grow their confidence in their reading skills.

Learning CVC words is part of the foundation of a structured literacy program.

This fun game has 33 CVC words, is easy to use, and will fit in with your curriculum in the primary grades. 

This printable game is one page and can be downloaded with your printer!  Just Print and Go!

The kids will need 1 or 2 dice or a spinner to play the game. The kids will take turns reading the words. The directions are located at the top of the game. 

Winter CVC Printable Word Game

This free printable game for kindergarten and first grade students is posted at my website (https://www.LearningWorkroom.com). 

Download and print it anytime at your convenience.

Have fun with reading! 

Using Venn Diagrams with Young Students

 Do you use Venn Diagrams with your students?

Venn Diagrams are a type of graphic organizer that students can use to compare, contrast, sort, and classify. They are especially useful to use with reading comprehension, math reasoning and scientific observation.

Venn Diagram

Venn diagrams help students turn abstract ideas into concrete visual structure. 

They support language development. They help students describe attributes and use comparative language (both, only, neither).

They are helpful in math (shapes, numbers, patterns, etc.) literacy (characters, settings, vocabulary, etc.), science (animals, materials, weather. etc.) social studies (communities, traditions, etc.)

A good way to introduce Venn Diagrams to very young students is to use real tangible objects (buttons, blocks, leaves, pencils, classroom supplies).

Next, students can draw pictures.

Start with simple categories (things that roll vs. things that stack).

Venn Diagram

Next, students can use written diagrams (fiction vs. nonfiction), (animals that fly vs. animals that swim), (animals that live on land vs animals that live in water).

After students have completed written diagrams, let them write sentences about what they learned. Let them read and share their sentences with a partner.

The more frequently students use Venn Diagrams in class, the more independently students will use them to organize their thinking.

I have some free Venn Diagrams on my website that you can download to use with your students.

Venn Diagrams

Venn Diagrams

Science Venn Diagram (Animals)

Please CLICK on the link below to get your free copies of Venn Diagram worksheets at my website.

Learning Workroom

https://www.LearningWorkroom.com

Have fun with Venn Diagrams! :)

R Blends Printable Game

 In 2025, I created some free, printable Blends Games (L Blends and S Blends) for you to use with your students. Today I am adding a free, fun R Blends Game to my website which you can now also download and print for your students to play.

Free Printable Phonics Game

The R Blends included are br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, and tr. Some of the words used are bread, cry, drop, frog, grow, print, and try. The game has 27 words with R Blends.

The game is lots of fun for students in kindergarten or first grade and will fit in well with your curriculum in the primary grades. Plus the game is no-prep! Just print and go!

Please CLICK on the link below to get your free copy of the R Blends Printable Game at my website.

Learning Workroom

https://www.LearningWorkroom.com

R Blends Printable Game

I usually laminate my printable games to make them last but if you prefer you can use a plastic sleeve to keep the games protected. (I usually buy my plastic sleeves at one of the Dollar Stores. They often come in different colors.)

Your students will need dice or a spinner to play the game. You can also print out free (quiet) paper dice at my website (same link as above) when you print out the game. I like to print on oaktag which now comes in lots of bright colors.

printable paper dice

printable dice

Here are links to read about the R Blends and S Blends Games which are also available for free at my website.

L Blends Game

S Blends Game

Happy New Year!

Have fun teaching with phonics and reading skill games! :)   

Making Printable Dice to use with Kids' Games

 Happy New Year!

Do your students play lots of printable games or board games? Do you need some extra sets of (quiet) dice to use with the games.

I have some free dice printables that you can download on your computer to make lots of sets of dice using heavy paper such as cardstock.  Plus cardstock comes in lots of vibrant colors!

paper dice for use with educational games

I have 2 versions that you can use. You can print the version with numbers or the version with dots. You just need the printable, a scissors, and some glue to make the dice for your students.

dice made with cardstock

LOVE THE VIBRANT COLORS OF THE DICE

DICE

The dice are great to use when playing games in school or at home!

The free dice printables are posted at my website (https://www.LearningWorkroom.com). 

Dice Printables

Download and print them anytime at your convenience. 

Also if you want some printable phonics and reading games to use with your young students, you have come to the right place. 

Click on the links below to see some of the fun printable games for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students.

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2025/11/4-printable-digraph-games-for.html

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2025/08/back-to-school-9-free-printable-reading.html

Sample Game

The games are no-prep, interactive, and easy to use. 

Each game is one page and can be downloaded with your printer!  Just Print and Go!

Have Fun with Educational Games in the New Year!

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3 Free, Fun, Printable Christmas Phonics Games

Today I have 3 easy to use printable Christmas phonics games for your students!

• Christmas CVC Word Game - Short Vowels
• Christmas Beginning Blends Game
• Christmas Beginning Alphabet Sounds Game

The CVC Game is for ALL the short vowels (a, e, i, o, and u). The game has 33 CVC words.

Christmas CVC Game

The Blends Game is for the L blends (bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, and sl), the R blends (cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, and tr) and the S blends (sm, sn, sp, and st).

Christmas Blends Game

The Beginning Alphabet Sounds Game is for all 26 letters of the alphabet and uses lower-case letters.

Christmas Beginning Sounds Game

The games are no-prep, interactive, and easy to use. All of the  games fit in well with a kindergarten or first grade curriculum.

Each game is one page and can be downloaded with your printer!  Just Print and Go!

The kids will need 1 or 2 dice or a spinner to play the game. The kids will take turns reading the letters or words.

All 3 free printable games are posted at my website (https://www.LearningWorkroom.com). 

Download and print them anytime at your convenience. 

https://www.LearningWorkroom.com

Have fun with Christmas Games!

If you would also like some free Christmas Worksheets for students in Grades Kindergarten - Grade 6, please click the link below.

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2021/12/9-free-christmas-math-literacy-coloring.html

Telling Time to the Half Hour Resources for Kids

 Telling Time to the Half Hour Resources for Kids

Learning to tell time is important for children for many reasons. It builds independence and responsibility and helps children manage their own routines. It also strengthens other math skills such as counting by 5s and understanding fractions.

After students have become successful in learning to tell time to the hour then it would be a good time to introduce telling time to the half hour.

As with learning to tell time to the hour, it would be best to start learning about time to the half hour with concrete objects.

I would suggest gathering up all the clocks and watches, etc. that you can find in your environment and have your students touch and examine these concrete items and review what they already know about clocks and telling time. 

Then review telling time to the hour before introducing time to the half hour.

Start with your concrete items to have students learn about time to the half hour.  I like using teacher-made or student-made paper plates clocks to work with. Also many inexpensive paper clocks are available at your dollar stores.

paper plate analog clock

    paper plate analog clock

store bought clock

After using the real clocks and paper products you can move on to other paper and pencil supplies.

I have 2 new time to the half hour worksheets that I just recently added to the free math worksheets on my website.

Telling Time Worksheets

Click the link below, then go to the Mathematics page  to get your free copies.

Learning Workroom

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Telling Time Worksheets

To read my earlier post on telling time to the hour, making paper plate clocks, and using other resources to learn about time and clocks, click the link below:

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2025/09/telling-time-to-hour-resources-for-kids.html

 digital time with candy

Have fun with time!