CVC word decodable readers help your students take the first big step with 1st grade phonemic awareness skills. Using decodable readers in your classroom helps to teach students how to blend sounds smoothly and connect letters to the sounds they represent.
This set of short vowel Boom Cards give students repeated practice with short vowel patterns. Each story focuses on isolating, blending, and reading accuracy, helping students move from sounding out individual words to reading fluently.
Classroom Benefits of CVC Word Decodable Readers
- Short vowel Boom Cards give consistent decoding practice that builds automatic word reading.
- Strengthens sound-to-letter connections through repeated decoding and application of 1st grade phonemic awareness skills.
- Helps students blend smoothly and read whole words in short sentences.
- Builds confidence as students read independently and apply phonics skills.
- Reinforces short-vowel patterns before introducing long vowels.
Boom Cards make it easy to introduce independent decoding practice. The digital format keeps engagement high while giving students structured, repeatable practice they can do on their own during centers or small group rotations.
How Does This Teach 1st Grade Phonemic Awareness Skills?
These first grade decodable readers give students practice with short vowel CVC words. As they read, they’ll isolate and blend sounds, review word families, and apply phonics skills in a short story. The deck also includes comprehension and retelling activities to reinforce understanding.
What’s Included in the Short Vowel Boom Cards
- 6 Decodable Stories including short a, short e, short i, short o, short u, and a mix of short vowel words in one deck.
- Phonemic Isolation: Elkonin box activities – students click through each sound and read the full word.
- Phoneme Awareness: Identify which word has the same short vowel sound.
- Comprehension: A literal question to check understanding of story details.
- Retelling: Drag-and-drop activity to retell the story in order (B,M.E).
- New Word Reading: Read new words from the same families for added practice.
Standards
Reading Foundational Skills (RF)
RF.1.2: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemic awareness).
RF.1.3a: Know the spelling-sound correspondences for short vowels.
RF.1.3b: Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
Reading Literature (RL)
RL.1.1: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.2: Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message.
Classroom Use
Perfect for small group phonics lessons, literacy stations, or independent reading practice. This deck offers scaffolded support for first grade students learning short vowel CVC words.
Give your students the short vowel decoding practice they need with these short vowel CVC word decodable readers on Boom Cards.
