Reading Mazes: CVC Paths

These reading mazes: CVC paths are designed to give your students practice with consonant, vowel, consonant words.

This is another free resource for teachers and homeschool families from www.freewordwork.com.

These phonics mazes: CVC paths will be a fun addition to your word work resources.

I am getting more and more requests for maze related activities. As a result, I created these sound mazes that are perfect for practicing a phonics skill while having a little fun.

Children think of mazes as a type of game so adding a maze to your word work can make it seem like more fun than work!

This specific set of phonics mazes focuses on CVC words.

What are CVC words?

If you are new to phonics instruction, you will need to first know what CVC words are.

CVC words have three letters. They begin with a consonant, have a vowel and then a final consonant.

These are simple words that are good for students to practice when they are first beginning to read. One benefit of CVC words is that you can find many with pictures to accompany the word. This can open up a whole world of possibilities when it comes to practicing the words.

About these CVC Paths

There are a total of 10 pages for students to use when practicing their phonics skills. The mazes are provided in two formats.

The first set contains words. You will find a page focusing on each vowel sound. The sixth in this format contains a mixture of short vowel words.

The next four pages are made using pictures.

To complete the task, students will start at the cat picture and color the first square. Children will then find the path by coloring the CVC words. Their goal is to reach the hat at the end of the maze.

Students simply need a crayon, colored pencil or marker to play.

Download these free Phonics Mazes: CVC Paths here:

Printable Worksheets

Looking for additional CVC work? You might like these other free resources I have created:

Thank you to the Marcelle’s KG Zone & Kinka Art for the clip art!