Phonics
Short I CVC Words
Printable phonics practice for short i, the short i in pin, a small tight sound. 32 words and 4 word families, as sound boxes, missing letters, family lists or handwriting practice.
Four steps
How to practise short i
- 1
Say the vowel alone
Hold the short i in pin for a second before using it in a word.
- 2
Segment with sound boxes
One box per sound, said slowly.
- 3
Fill a missing letter
The child supplies the sound that was removed.
- 4
Read a family
Learning one chunk unlocks several words at once.
Short i
It is the short i in pin, a small tight sound. Second, because short i is acoustically furthest from short a, so the two are hard to confuse. Teaching a and e next to each other causes far more trouble.
The word families
A word family shares an ending, so learning the chunk once unlocks every word in the group. These are the short i families:
- -in: pin, bin, tin, win, fin, din
- -ig: pig, big, dig, fig, wig, jig
- -it: sit, hit, bit, fit, kit, lit
- -ip: lip, tip, rip, dip, hip, zip
All the short i words on these sheets
pinbintinwinfindinsinkinpigbigdigfigwigjigrigzigsithitbitfitkitlitpitwitliptipripdiphipzipsipnip
Where this sits
Before this comes short a. After it comes short o.
Related printables
See every short vowel, or pair this with sight words, which cover the common words phonics cannot decode.
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