Long E Story with Spelling Activities

Learning to spell Long E words is fun and interesting with this engaging phonics story full of words showing how the Long E vowel sound can be spelled in 12 different ways. The story contains 127 Long A words, with the Long E letters printed in contrasting green for easy decoding.

‘Three Free Wishes’ is an imaginative story about four furry friends who are granted three free wishes. As children read how Cheeky Monkey and his friends solve their dilemma, they will easily discover and learn 12 different ways to spell the Long E sound. The story contains 127 Long E spelling words to teach the following graphemes: ‘ee’, ‘ea’, ‘e-e’, ‘ie’, ‘ei’, ‘e’, ‘eo’, ‘ay’, ‘ey’, ‘y’, ‘I-e’ and ‘I’ with the Long E letters printed in contrasting green for easy decoding.

This resource also includes differentiated word family lists, a reading comprehension quiz, homonyms, high frequency sight words, play based and cross curricular activities and a colouring page. Your students will easily develop phonemic awareness, learn to decode sounds in words and build knowledge of letter sound correspondence.

In This Resource:

• engaging 24 page full color phonics picture book story

• 127 Long E spelling words to learn 12 different ways the Long E sound can be spelled: 'ay', 'e', 'ea', 'ee', 'ei', 'eo', 'ey', 'e_e', 'i', 'ie', 'i_e', and 'y'

• 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

Print or View

• PDF format to print as booklet or single pages, or view on any screen in single or double page format to suit

Please note: these are different to decodable readers for whole words. This phonics story book focuses on decoding a focus sound. Long E letters are printed in contrasting green to scaffold and support students learning to spell.