Consonant Vowel Consonant (CVC) Reading Wheel

ByRachel Updated on

learn to read wheelI love homemade learn-to-read resources.   This is a throw-back from my teaching days.   I had seen wheels like this in our reading curriculum (don’t ask me what it was – it was over a decade ago).   Basically, the concept of the wheel is that one letter is stationary and your child can rotate the wheels to create a new word or blend of a word.   We made our own reading wheel with the help of two different sizes of cups, a button and needle and thread.

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learn to read wheelHow to make your own Learn-to-Read Wheel:

  • We used a cereal bowl to trace a medium sized circle
  • The kids cups made a great small circle.
  • Make an extra small circle and cut it in half, then chop off the ends to make a tab.

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Steps in creation:

  • You want to poke a hole through the center of both circles.
  • Using the button and the tab, create a sandwich of the pieces.   So that the circle “wheels” are both able to move, but the tab stays stationary.learn to read wheel

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Labeling the Reading Wheel with Consonants and Vowels:

We made different wheels with different vowels in the center or with different beginning/ending letters. You can also use letter blends to create the wheels.

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Do you have a favorite homemade learning resource?   Share it in the comments!

Rachel is the founder of the blog, One Crazy House.  She is the co-author of 101 Kids Activities that are the Bestest, Funnest Ever! and The 101 Coolest Simple Science Experiments.  She lives in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband and six children.

13 Comments

  2. I love this idea! We are on the lookout for fun learning activities to do this week. My daughters have fall break and like to keep busy!

  3. Wow- that is so so creative!!! Honestly you are such a fab mom for coming up with this stuff!

  4. Fantastic tutorial! I’ll be sharing this post with some friends with little ones!

  5. What a neat idea! My 5yo will love this!

  7. This is such a great tool to use. Funny how making it like a little “toy” makes spelling that much more fun!

  8. Rachel–Love it!
    I agree–it amazes me how making a hands-on manipulative makes learning that much more fun for little ones.

    Awesome.

    Also wondering how you formatted this–how do you get little scroll bars w/i your posts? 🙂

  10. I love simple reading tools like this! We made something similar, but it was a flip book. I think I like your design much better.

  11. These are great – children will love manipulating the wheel and the feeling of accomplishment: reading FOUR words! Well done!

  12. I have no clue how the scroll bars are there and would love to get rid of them – if only I had the time to go through the code 🙂

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