These CVCC word cards can be used for spelling and decoding activities.

These cards are not intended to be used as traditional flashcards – rather, they are to be used during multi-sensory activities – e.g. practising spellings using ‘window pens’ or playing Snakes and Ladders and reading a word with each go. Please check through this album of ideas.

Strictly speaking, ‘nd’ is a ‘consonant blend’ or ‘consonant cluster’. This is where two or three consonants appear in a syllable without being separated by vowels, and they are usually found at the end of words. More traditional phonics programmes require learners to ‘learn’ a blend much in the same way as they would a single grapheme. However, this strategy puts a burden on working memory, and effectively means that learners have to learn a much greater number of letter-sound correspondances.

This resource targets ‘nd’ ending words. However, learners should be taught to decode and blend each letter-sound correspondance in the word.

At the end of the document, there is a table to enable you to record your learner’s progress.