Phonics eBook Story for Short E Vowel Sound + Spelling Activities and Word Lists

Phonics eBook Story for Short E Vowel Sound + Spelling Activities and Word Lists

An invaluable teaching resource developed for educators, emphasizing on learning the short E vowel sound in words. The eBook cleverly merges systematic phonics and story-based instruction for effective spelling and pronunciation learning.

A Captivating Picture Book Story

This 13-page picture book revolves around Fred, his friend, and their bike riding adventures. Appropriate for children from Grade 1 through to Grade 3, the ebook comes alive on any screen with a conversational format that includes seventy-three short E sound words.

Versatile Material

• Inclusion of whole group discussions, small group activities to individual assignments.
• A special version accommodating differences in US and UK/Australian spelling.

The green font used (or grey if printing in BW) for denoting the Short E letters adds visual appeal while serving as an effective decoding scaffold.

Six different ways of spelling Short E are introduced: 'a', 'ai', 'ay', 'e', 'ea' and 'ie.'

Lively Lessons & Learning Enabling Tools

Sections include:

1. Word family lists,
2. Homonyms tracking chart revealing matching sounds,
3. Reading comprehension exercises focused on deepening understanding about topics arising from Fred's adventure.

E.g., coloring pages that keep fun intact while enhancing linguistic skills.

In This Resource:

- engaging 13 page full color phonics picture book story

- 73 Short E spelling words to learn 6 different ways the Short E sound can be spelled: 'a', 'ai', 'ay', 'e', 'ea' and 'ie'.

- Short E graphemes printed in green, (or grey if printing in BW) to scaffold and support decoding

- word family list

- tricky words

- reading comprehension

- homonyms

- grapheme chart

- story on one page

- coloring page

- spelling activity ideas

- cross curricula story based learning activities

Note: 2 versions are included to accommodate differences in US and UK/Australian spelling. The following different spellings occur in accompanying activity pages.

US/UK: coloring/colouring, theater/theatre