Halloween Reading Games - Fun CVC Roll & Read Activities for Early Years

Are you looking for fun CVC Halloween Reading Games for Early years? Your students will love these easy-prep printable early reading activities, decoding letters and sounds to blend and read CVC, CCVC, CVCC, and CCVCC words.

The games are ideal for reading games as part of a lesson to practice how to decode, blend and read CVC words in engaging ways. They can be played as either independent games or as an adult-led activity where you can assess, teach and discuss decoding, blending and reading strategies. The cute Halloween clipart makes this ideal for October Phonics activities.

6 Roll & Read Halloween Reading Games

• Game 1 – CVC game with graphemes s a t p – words are repeated to give lots of practice with these 4 letters and sounds
• Game 2 – Words with graphemes s a t p i n m d – most are CVC words, including VC (at, it) and VCC (ant, and) words and 2 names with capital letters
• Game 3 – CVC Words with graphemes s a t p i n m d g o c k
• Game 4 – CVC, CVCC CCVC Words game with s a t p i n m d g o c k e u r
• Game 5 – CVC, CVCC CCVC CCVCC Words game with s a t p i n m d g o c k e u r h b f l
• Game 6 – includes more complex words with s a t p i n m d g o c k e u r h b f l j v w x y z (all letters apart from q which would be a digraph as ‘qu’)
• Blank Template for students to create their own CVC games and play with their friends and family
• Teachers’ Notes
• Templates to make spinners and dice with Halloween numbers
• Markers
• Patterns for the backs of games

• Low-prep - print, provide dice or spinners and markers (templates are included) and play
• laminate for repeated use - laminate 2 games back-to-back so students can go to a more challenging game when they have finished
• Teachers’ notes with suggestions on how to structure the lesson
• Great for your literacy/ reading centres
• Use them for morning work
• Great as an independent activity as part of a lesson
• Ideal for fun homework
• Great for extra reading practice targeting specific letters and sounds
• Use them for early finishers
• Leave them in your tuff tray for students to play with or have them out as child-initiated activities
• Ideal if you need a quick resource e.g. for supply days

• Activities are ideal for pairs and small groups
• Games are easy to do and quick to understand
• Players will check each other’s reading skills and therefore be learning together
• Gives students opportunities to discuss reading strategies

• Ideal to use as part of a lesson practicing early reading strategies and specific letters and sounds
• Great to play as a fun activity outside formal teaching - ‘drip feeding’ reading

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