Short Vowel CVC Phonics Foldable Crafts & Decodable Passages

If you’re looking for engaging, hands-on phonics activities to boost early reading success, this is the perfect place to start! Designed specifically for Kindergarten and 1st grade students, these Short Vowel CVC Phonics Foldable Crafts & Decodable Passages for Early Readers help students practice reading, spelling, and writing simple consonant-vowel-consonant words.

Benefits of Short Vowel CVC Phonics Foldable Crafts and Decodable Passages

✅ Multisensory Learning: Students cut, fold, color, glue, read, and write—engaging multiple learning styles.
✅ Reinforces CVC Word Families: Each foldable focuses on one short vowel and supports word recognition, blending, segmenting, and fluency.
✅ Craft + Reading = Deeper Retention: Students love the thematic crafts, and the included original decodable passages provide meaningful text to apply their skills.

Short Vowel CVC Phonics Foldable Crafts Included

Short A – Cat in a Cap

Cat in a Cap Short A CVC Activities and Decodable Passage
Focus on CVC words like cat, cap, map, bat, and more. Students assemble their own “Cat in a Cap” foldable, complete a word work activity, and read an original decodable passage featuring short a words.

Short E – The Red Jet

The Red Jet Short E CVC Activities and Decodable Passage
Perfect for practicing words like jet, red, bed, net. The foldable jet craft brings the short e word family to life while building fluency and comprehension.

Short I – Pig in a Wig

Pig in a Wig Short i CVC Activities and Decodable Passage
With a whimsical pig wearing a wig, students read and write words like pig, wig, dig, sit, and complete a short decodable passage packed with short i CVC words.

Short O – The Hot Ox

The Hot Ox Short o CVC Activities and Decodable
Practice short o sounds with hot, ox, box, pop, and more. This foldable is a hit during any weather unit or as a warm-up to CVC fluency practice!

Short U – Pug with a Mug

Pug with a Mug Short U CVC Activities and Decodable Passage
Students will giggle and learn with this silly short u foldable, featuring words like pug, mug, bug, rug. A perfect way to make phonics practice joyful.

Money Saving Bundle

Short Vowels Phonics Foldable Bundle

Get all five for the price of three! If you know your students will love all of these activities, save money with the bundle of all five resources.

Included in Each Phonics Foldable Resource

• Craft Keepsake Booklet with CVC Word List (two options each)
• Word Chain
• Spin-a-Word
• Word Search
• Crossword Puzzle
• Decode & Sort
• Decodable Passage with Comprehension Questions (3 versions)
• Color by Phonogram (3 versions)

Why Teachers Love These Foldables:

“These were the perfect combination of hands-on phonics and reading comprehension! My students were engaged the whole time and begged for more.”
— Allison R.

Perfect for:

• Literacy centers
• Small group intervention
• Phonics mini-lessons
• Take-home projects
• Sub days
• RTI and decoding support

Build a Strong Phonics Foundation

These short vowel phonics foldables give your students the tools they need to develop decoding skills, apply phonics in context, and build confidence as readers. Whether you teach beginning CVC work or need a quick, fun review, these crafts combine instruction and creativity in a way that sticks.

More Phonics Fun

Word chains are a simple and effective phonemic awareness activity where students sound swap their way through a series of words.  Word chains offer practice with blending, segmenting, and phoneme manipulation.