U-E Split Digraph Activity Packet and Worksheets

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What's inside this resource

U-E Split Digraph Activity Packet and Worksheets This phonics resource features a collection of engaging printable activities focused on developing split digraph skills using the letters u and e. Students will build foundational literacy abilities including spelling, reading comprehension, writing, and grammar through fun, no-prep games and worksheets. Educators can implement these materials in whole group, small group, or individual settings to reach learners at varying levels from kindergarten to 3rd grade. By practicing split digraphs in multiple ways, young students will gain confidence recognizing, decoding, and using these letter patterns to become stronger readers and writers. This teaching packet offers adaptable options to supplement explicit phonics instruction.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

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.

Teaching tips

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 internalized the rule from the anchor chart.

Skills covered

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.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Are the two poems just for reading, or do they connect to a writing task?

Both — "Rude Luke" and "Bruce the Brute" are meant to be read first, and each has a matching story-writing page that reuses its exact word bank, so the poem models the words before students write with them.