CVC Read and Draw Worksheets, Short Vowels, Kindergarten 1st

About this resource

A child who can sound out the words is not always ready to show what the sentence means. Here the child reads a short decodable sentence, then draws it in a big box, colors the picture it asks for, or circles the picture it names. The sentences are built from CVC words, a few short words the child is told (like the, a and is) and six first names. The Read and Color pages also use five color words, printed in a color key beside each color. So the reading is the point and the drawing shows what was understood.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (39 pages)

• 23 student pages: Read and Draw 10 (2 for each short vowel, a to u), Read and Color 4, Read and Circle 4, Read, Draw, Write 5 (1 for each short vowel)
• 51 sentences: 49 on the student pages and 2 more on the home page
• 12 pictures to color or circle
• 2 what-to-look-for pages: what every drawing should show, the color each sentence asks for, and the picture to circle
• 1 tracker (a row for each of the 23 student pages), 1 class progress grid
• 1 team note page and 1 home page with two sentences to draw
• 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (16 starters), 1 binder cover, and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
• Start Here, a how-to-read-a-page page and a contents page that gives every page number

The Four Formats

1. Read and Draw (10 pages, 20 sentences, 4 for each short vowel, 2 a page) — a big empty box under each sentence, a little under 3 inches tall. No picture is printed, so the drawing is the answer.

2. Read and Color (4 pages, 12 sentences, 3 a page) — a light outline to color and a color key at the top of the page. The color words are printed beside their colors.

3. Read and Circle (4 pages, 12 sentences, 3 a page) — three color pictures under each sentence; the child circles the one the sentence names. The answer sits in the left, middle and right box equally often.

4. Read, Draw, Write (5 pages, 1 for each short vowel) — read the sentence, draw it in a box 3.5 inches tall, then use eight words with that vowel to write a sentence of your own on three-line primary paper.

Each page is marked with dots, not words, so the children at one table cannot see who has which page.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction with a picture, large rounded letters, big draw boxes and primary writing lines. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult.

The Sentences

Every word of every sentence is in one of four lists: this store's CVC words (67 of the 89 different words), 11 short words the child is told (a, the, is, I, on, in, my, and, has, it, up), 6 first names, and 5 color words that appear only on Read and Color pages beside their colors. Each Read and Draw and Read, Draw, Write sentence has at least two words with its page's short vowel. No practice sentence repeats across the student pages.

What To Look For

Two teacher pages list every sentence with what the drawing must show and how the things go together ("the rat is on the bag"), so a quick check does not depend on neat drawing.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the writing lines, the tracker, the class grid, the team note and the home page notes are type-in fields in any PDF reader. The pages print clean in black and white. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Kindergarten and first grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher working with an older student who is still building CVC reading. The home page sends the same job to a family; the team note hands off what changed since the last meeting.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Sentence-reading practice with the record-keeping around it. It is not a probe, a goal bank or a score sheet, not a reading assessment, and not a claim about any student's age or rate of progress.