U-E Split Digraph Activity Packet and Worksheets

Explain the u-e split digraph rule: a final silent 'e' after a consonant makes the preceding 'u' say its long sound.

Read and write u-e split digraph words such as cube, flute, truce, and crude.

Change a short-u CVC word (e.g., cub, tub, cut) into a u-e split digraph word by adding a final 'e'.

Use u-e split digraph words correctly in an original sentence or short story.

Introduce the anchor chart before any worksheet — it is the only page that explains the rule itself; every later page assumes students already know it.

Read the two poems, "Rude Luke" and "Bruce the Brute," aloud as a class before assigning the related word-bank story-writing pages, since both prompts reuse the poems' word banks.

Have scissors and glue ready before the picture-match, word-match, and letter-card pages — several activities are built as cut-and-paste tasks.

Use the short-u-to-u-e transformation page (cub → cube, tub → tube) as a quick check for whether students have internalised the rule from the anchor chart.

Split-digraph decoding — students apply the u-e rule (consonant-vowel-consonant-e = long u) to read words like crude, flute, and truce.

Phonics-to-spelling transfer — students change a short-u CVC word into its long-u split-digraph form by adding a final 'e'.

Sight-word writing practice — students trace and independently write the target word list before using the words in sentences.

Vocabulary-in-context application — students select the correct u-e word from a word bank to complete a sentence or write an original story.