EE or EA? Vowel-Team Word Sort
Read fourteen words and sort them by their ee or ea spelling. Use the completed page to check the two groups.
- Year groups
- Years 2–3 (Key Stages 1–2)
- Pages
- 2
- File type
- Subject
- Phonics, Language Development, English
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- England expectations
- Official curriculum expectation · Word reading
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About this resource
This Vowel Worksheet will help your students practice reading and writing EE and EA words. By correctly sorting the words into the proper columns, students will develop a better understanding of these vowel combinations.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Recognise EE and EA within printed words
- Sort fourteen words by vowel-team spelling
- Compare two spellings that can represent a long-E sound
Teaching tips
- Underline the vowel team in each word before placing it in a column.
- Check the fourteen-word sort only after both EE and EA columns are complete.
Skills covered
- Vowel-team identification — learners locate EE or EA
- Word classification — learners place each word in one of two columns
- Orthographic comparison — learners distinguish similar-sounding spellings
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National Curriculum in England
National Curriculum in England expectations
England expectations
England expectations
- Official curriculum expectation · Word reading — respond speedily with the correct sound to graphemes (letters or groups of letters) for all 40+ phonemes, including, where applicable, alternative sounds for graphemes
Core concepts
Core concepts
- EE and EA vowel teams
- Word sorting
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