Post on 11-May-2018
Cootie CatchersConsonant Blends
VCC, CVCC, CCVC Words
A fun way to practice reading & spelling words!
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Cootie catchers (or chatterboxes/fortune tellers) are a fantastic way for your students to practice reading, writing and spelling words that have a particular phonics focus.
Cootie catchers give students practice in a variety of skills including blending and segmentation. You can use them for reading, phonics, spelling and literacy intervention.
There are many ways you can use the cootie catchers, including:
• Independent practice in class.• Small group work.• Part of a literacy station.• Review and remediation.• Home practice and consolidation.
The cootie catchers are split into two sets of words. The sets include:
Set 1: VCC and CVCC wordsSet 2: VCC and CCVC words
Each set of cootie catchers also includes a word overview sheet. This sheet provides all of the words used in each cootie catcher.
The following pages explain how to assemble the cootie catchers as well as how you can use them in your class with your students.
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Cootie Catchers: VCC, CVCC, CCVC Words
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Cootie catchers are easy to assemble, follow the below steps.
1. First, print and/or copy the cootie catcher you want to use.2. Cut out around the outside edge of the cootie catcher.3. Have the cootie catcher facing with the pictures down.4. Fold each corner in so that they meet in the center of the square.
5. Turn over and repeat the procedure, folding corners in to meet in the center. This will create four triangular flaps.
6. Turn the cootie catcher over so the pictures are facing up.7. Place thumbs and forefingers under the square flaps. Move thumbs
and forefingers in an open and shut motion. This will mean the cootie catcher opens and shuts, revealing four of the eight words each time.
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How To Assemble
Cootie Catchers: VCC, CVCC, CCVC Words
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This is how I use the cootie catchers with my students, but feel free to create your own ways that suit the needs of your students.
1. Have students work with a partner. One student (student 1) operates the cootie catcher.
2. The other student (student 2) picks one of the pictures and reads the word.
3. Student 1 opens and closes the cootie catcher while saying the sounds. For example, if the picture is of a dress, the student would say: /d/ /r/ /e/ /ss/, so that student would open/close the cootie catcher 4 times.
4. Student 2 reads one of the words.
5. Again student 1 opens/closes the cootie catcher for the number of sounds in the word.
6. Student 2 picks another word.
7. This time student 1 opens the flap to reveal a word. Student 1 reads the word to student 2.
8. Student 2 writes the word on a mini whiteboard (or piece of paper). The student then checks the spelling is correct by looking at the word on the cootie catcher.
9. Students alternate taking turns operating the cootie catcher.
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How To Use
Cootie Catchers: VCC, CVCC, CCVC Words
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Set 1: VCC and CVCC Words
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Cootie Catcher 1
elk elm ink gulf
jump rest wept yelp
Cootie Catcher 2
act ant ink bank
dots hump lift mats
Cootie Catcher 3
ant elf elk bats
desk film pond wisp
Cootie Catcher 4
act elf elm bulb
cats helm milk tent
Cootie Catcher 5
ant ink belt help
hunt lips self vest
Cootie Catcher 6
elf ant bend camp
pulp rips soft tilt
Cootie Catcher 7
act elm cups hand
kelp list melt wink
Cootie Catcher 8
ant ink dust gift
land next silk wind
Cootie Catchers: VCC, CVCC, CCVC Words
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inkhe
lplip
svest
ant
vest
self
ink
belthelp
hunt
lips vest
self
hunt
help
beltink
antlips
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Cootie Catcher 5
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elkpu
lpca
mpsoft
elf
soft
bend
elk
ripspu
lp
tilt
camp soft
bend
tilt
pulp
ripselk
elfca
mp
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Cootie Catcher 6
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Set 2: VCC and CCVC Words
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Cootie Catcher 9
act elk blob drip
floss Scott smog twig
Cootie Catcher 10
elf elm clam drum
grill pram sled spot
Cootie Catcher 11
act ant clog dress
frog slug spill trim
Cootie Catcher 12
elk ink crab flag
grin skull spin swam
Cootie Catcher 13
elf elm club Fred
gloss plug skip snap
Cootie Catcher 14
ant ink clip drop
grub plus stem stop
Cootie Catcher 15
act elm cross flat
plum slip smell swim
Cootie Catcher 16
elk ink blob drill
floss glad slam snip
Cootie Catchers: VCC, CVCC, CCVC Words
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elkbl
obfl
osssm
og
act
smog
twig
elk
dripbl
ob
Scott
floss smog
twig
Scott
blob
dripelk
actfl
oss
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Cootie Catcher 9
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elmsled
drum
clam
elf
clam
spot
elm
grillsled
pramdrum clam
spot
pram
sled
grillelm
elfdr
um
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Cootie Catcher 10
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