I don’t know about you, but I’m always on the look out for an engaging CVC words for kindergarten activity. My students love to learn with hands-on activities. And this gumball sorting machine quickly became one of our most loved resources in our literacy activities.
How to Use
- This activity is all about sorting medial vowels. Each gum ball machine has a vowel – a,e,i,o,u.
- Students match the gum balls into the gum ball machines that have the same medial vowel.
- I recommend laminating each of the individual pieces so that they’ll be stronger, and re-usable for the future.
Different Abilities
I have students of different ability levels – I’m guessing, just like you do! And that’s why I wanted to have a game that would work for the different ability levels of my students.
Level 1
For level 1, my students have picture and word gum balls to sort into the gum ball machines.
Level 2
For level 2, my students have CVC word gum balls to sort into the gum ball machines.
Group Game Ideas
I have included some instructions below on how this resource could be used as part of a group game session. Each medial sound comes with 6 accompanying ‘gum ball’ pieces. This game will work with a group of up to 6 students.
- Hand out one of each medial sound to the individual students (give more to the students if you have a smaller group), then have the gum ball machines out ready.
- Now, you can either have a dice which students roll – put a medial sound on each side of the dice (a,e,i,o,u). Whatever letter the dice lands on – the students have to match their gum ball pieces to that gum ball machine.
OR - You choose a gum ball machine and offer it around to the students asking them to put their matching gum ball piece into the gum ball machine.
What activities do you use with your students to work on CVC words? Let me know in the comments down below. And if you want to try out this activity with your students, click here to download it and use it with your students.
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