Choose the CVCe Answer Key

This CVC vs. CVCe sentence-choice worksheet helps students strengthen phonics and comprehension skills by choosing the word that best completes each sentence. Learners analyze context and decide between short-vowel CVC words and long-vowel CVCe words-such as hop/hope or rid/ride-to understand how the silent e changes both sound and meaning.

Key Learning Objectives

• Skill Focus: Distinguishing between CVC (short vowel) and CVCe (long vowel) words in context
• Critical Thinking Benefit: Builds meaning-based decision making using phonics knowledge and context clues
• Grade-Level Alignment: Supports phonics and comprehension development in Grades 1, 2, and 3
• Curriculum Tie-in: Supports silent e patterns, short vs. long vowel discrimination, and sentence comprehension
• Application Type: Sentence-level word choice integrating decoding with vocabulary reasoning

Teacher & Parent Features

• Reinforces how silent e changes vowel sound and word meaning
• Encourages rereading sentences to confirm meaning
• Ideal for phonics lessons, literacy centers, or independent practice
• Supports both decoding accuracy and comprehension growth
• Builds confidence comparing similar-looking word forms
• Suitable for classroom instruction and homeschool learning

This printable CVCe worksheet strengthens early literacy by combining phonics instruction with meaningful sentence reading. By choosing between CVC and CVCe words, students improve decoding accuracy, vocabulary understanding, and confidence applying long-vowel patterns in context.

This worksheet is part of our CVCe (Silent E) Patterns Worksheets collection.