Free CVC Word Family Coloring Pages: Short A Vowel
Coloring pages are an easy way to introduce and review the CVC words. These CVC word family coloring pages are a fun and creative way to do that. My girls love coloring pages.
This CVC coloring pages set has the following short vowel a and different consonant endings: ad, -ag, -am, -an, -ap, -ar, -at
These CVC short vowel coloring pages are short a CVC words that kids learn.
A nice part of these is that you can use these CVC coloring pages with various ages of kids!
The CVC Short Vowel Word Coloring Pages Printable is a great addition to the CVC Word Family printables on the site.
What is a CVC Word?
CVC words are words that have a consonant vowel consonant pattern. They have easy to sound out consonants with a short vowel sound in the middle. They don’t have any tricky blends or digraphs for kids to work around.
They are considered simple words that can be used with early readers to help sound out and decode words.
They have short vowel sounds that make sounding out words easy.
You are going to find words like cat. Kids can sound out the letters C A & T. And then blend the sounds together to make the word.
Some CVC words that kids learn are bag, map, sat, sad, pan, etc.
CVC Coloring Pages for ad, ag, am, an, ap, ar, and at
The CVC Coloring coloring pages have two or three pictures on each page for the CVC words. Plus an area where they can draw their own CVC picture and word. The printable allows kids to be creative. These printables are a print and use. There is no prep involved at all in them.
These CVC Word Family coloring pages have the following short A endings of ad sound words, ag sound words, am sound words, ap sound words, ar sound words and at sound words.
The CVC Short A Coloring pages are great for homework, morning review, learning new CVC words, spelling of CVC words and more.
-AD CVC Coloring Worksheet
You have three -ad word family pictures and words: dad, pad, and sad.
You can see the pictures for all three and space for kids to draw and write their own -ad word family word.
-AG CVC Coloring Worksheet
You have three -ag word family pictures and words: bag, rag, and tag.
You can see the pictures for all three and space for kids to draw and write their own -ag word family word.
-AM CVC Coloring Worksheet
You have three -am word family pictures and words: ham, jam, and ram.
You can see the pictures for all three and space for kids to draw and write their own -am word family word.
-AN CVC Coloring Worksheet
You have three -an word family pictures and words: fan, man, and pan.
You can see the pictures for all three and space for kids to draw and write their own -an word family word.
-AP CVC Coloring Worksheet
You have three -ap word family pictures and words: cap, map, and nap.
You can see the pictures for all three and space for kids to draw and write their own -ap word family word.
-AR CVC Coloring Worksheet
You have three -ar word family pictures and words: bar, car, and jar.
You can see the pictures for all three and space for kids to draw and write their own -ar word family word.
-AT CVC Coloring Worksheet
You have three -at word family pictures and words: bat, cat, and hat.
You can see the pictures for all three and space for kids to draw and write their own -at word family word.
Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the post to see where to get your copy of these free CVC word family coloring pages.
Things to use with the CVC Word Family Coloring Page Printable
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- printer
- white copy paper
- crayons
- colored pencils
- markers
- pencil – This is our favorite pencil!
- sheet protectors
- dry erase markers
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Ways to Use the CVC Word Family Short A Coloring Page Printables
I will show you a few ways to use these CVC short a coloring pages. And remember, these are just options you can use.
Trace the CVC Short A Word
You can start off by tracing all the CVC short a words on the page. You can see we have a pencil with a pencil grips. If you have kids with issues holding a pencil this is a great tool to help.
You can trace the CVC words and say the letters of the CVC words as you trace the words. So you can spell m a p and after you finish you say the word map.
Color the CVC Short A Picture
After you trace the CVC word, you then color the matching CVC picture for the word. You can see we colored the map on the page after you traced the word map. A great way to associate pictures with words as well.
Draw and Write your own CVC Word
Kids can also draw their own word that matches the ending of the CVC words.
So on the -an word family coloring page, we drew a picture of a can to go with the rest of the -an words.
Underline the CVC Word Family Ending in the Word
You can also work on looking at the ending sound of the CVC short a words. You can underline the vowel and ending consonants in the words to see what part of the word makes them rhyming words.
Write the CVC Word Vowels and Consonants in a Different Color
You can also trace the vowel and consonants in different colors. We used blue for the consonants and then red for the vowels. A great way to see the different types of letters that make up the CVC words.
Reuse the CVC Short A Coloring pages
You can also reuse these pages. You can use the tracing part of the page and put the page in a sheet protector. Then they can trace the word over and over. And if you have lots of colors of dry erase markers they can color the page as well.
Looking for More CVC Short Vowel Coloring pages
If you are looking for more CVC word family coloring pages and more options, then check out the CVC Word Family Coloring Pages. It has all the CVC Short Vowel words in the set with a tracing page, writing page and vocab cards that match the CVC words on the coloring pages.
Great CVC Books to Use with These CVC Coloring Pages
These are a few books you can use with the CVC coloring pages.
The Hen in the Den: Short Vowel Sounds is a great short vowel book with CVC words that rhyme with pictures and simple sentence to read.
BOB Books Rhyming words is a great way to work on word family words with kids.
The Bug in the Jug Wants a Hug is another short vowel book that has fun pictures and workings on rhyming words in the same sentence.
What you will find in these Free CVC Word Family Coloring Pages: -AD, -AG, -AM, -AN, -AP, -AR, -AT Printables:
- 8 different Short A Word Endings
- The following CVC Short A Endings: -ad, -ag, -am, -an, -ap, -ar, -at
- Trace the CVC word and write your own CVC short vowel word
- -AD CVC Coloring Worksheet
- -AG CVC Coloring Worksheet
- -AM CVC Coloring Worksheet
- -AN CVC Coloring Worksheet
- -AP CVC Coloring Worksheet
- -AR CVC Coloring Worksheet
- -AT CVC Coloring Worksheet
Click here to get the Free -ag CVC Coloring Pages
Click here to get the Free -am CVC Coloring Pages
Click here to get the Free -an CVC Coloring Pages
Click here to get the Free -ap CVC Coloring Pages
CVC Word Coloring Page Selling Set
The CVC Coloring Pages have the following CVC word families: -ab, -ad, -ag, -am, -an, -ap, -ar, -ap, -at, -ed, -eg, -en, -et, -ib, -id, -ig, -im, -in, -ip, -it, -ix, -ob, -od, -og, -op, -ot, -ox, -ub, -ud, -ug, -um, -un, -up, -ut.
They have two CVC coloring worksheet options with tracing or writing words. Plus vocab cards to match the CVC word coloring worksheets.
What you will find in the CVC Short Vowel Coloring Page Selling Set
- 33 CVC Word Families: -ab, -ad, -ag, -am, -an, -ap, -ar, -ap, -at, -ed, -eg, -en, -et, -ib, -id, -ig, -im, -in, -ip, -it, -ix, -ob, -od, -og, -op, -ot, -ox, -ub, -ud, -ug, -um, -un, -up, -ut
- CVC Word Family Coloring Page with Tracing Word Option
- CVC Word Family Coloring Page with Writing Word Option
- CVC Word Family Vocab Cards with 2 or 3 words to match each CVC coloring worksheet
- 99 pages
- Price: $4
Check out these other CVC Short A Vowel Printables
CVC Short A Small Folding Books has the following short a endings: -ad, -ag, -am, -an, -ap, -ar, -at. Each book has three words with tracing reading and coloring.
CVC Short A Puzzles has 16 short a puzzles for kids to work on short a words. You have puzzles for the following short a endings: -ad, -ab, -ag, -am, -an, -ap, -ar, and -at.
CVC Word Family Playdough Mats With Tracing: Short A has a lot of short a words for kids to use. Each word has it own mat and kids can make the words and then work on tracing the words and writing the word. You have the following word endings: ad, ag, am, an, ap, ar, at, ay.
CVC Word Family Beginning Sound Clip Cards: Short A has 12 short A words for kids to clip the beginning sound and trace the ending sounds. ab, -ag, –am, -an, -ap, -ar, -at.
Check out all the fun CVC Word Family Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com
Great coloring pages!
These are great! My girls would definitely love them!
These are great! We are smack dab in the middle of learning CVC words so this has come at the perfect time 🙂