At Home Skills Check

At-Home Reading Skills Check: Short Vowels & CVC Words

Help identify your child’s early reading strengths and areas for practice with this parent-friendly At-Home Reading Skills Check focused on short vowels and CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words.

Designed for Kindergarten and early First Grade readers, this simple assessment helps families understand how their child is developing foundational reading skills, including:

✓ Hearing and identifying short vowel sounds✓ Blending and reading CVC words✓ Decoding real and nonsense words✓ Encoding and spelling simple words

This resource is designed to be an easy way for parents and educators to check in on early phonics skills and provide targeted practice at home. It is not a formal diagnostic assessment, but a helpful tool to guide instruction and support reading growth.

Included:• Parent-friendly directions• Short vowel sound practice• CVC word reading activities• Nonsense word decoding practice• Spelling/dictation practice• Simple scoring guide and notes section

Use this resource to:

• Identify skills your child has mastered

• Notice areas where additional practice may help

• Support structured literacy instruction at home or in the classroom

At Fostering Student Growth, we believe every child can grow as a reader with the right support, practice, and encouragement.