Lesson 13: Vowel Team ee • Student Worksheet

SPELLING & PHONICS STANDARD: RF.2.3 / RF.3.3 • VOWEL TEAM EE & POETRY STUDENT WORKSHEET

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Phonological Focus: Master words containing the vowel digraph ee (ēe, /iː/). Underscore ee words in verse, and identify words where e represents an r-controlled or alternate sound.

VOWEL TEAM EE

1. Copy these words carefully. • 2. Spell them orally. • 3. Write them neatly from dictation and put the proper mark over each ee.

Study each word, pronounce the long ēe sound, copy on the line, and complete oral dictation:

seen

seem

sleep

steep

creep

sweet

meet

cheek

Oral Dictation (Mark ēe) 8 Words

1. Copy the following lines carefully. • 2. Underscore all words in which the long sound of e is represented by ee.

Read both poetic selections. Write each line carefully, and draw a neat line under every word with ee (long e):

Selection A N. P. Willis

The bird is hushed, and so is the bee,

The sun is creeping up steeple and tree.

Selection B Fairy Seeds

Think what a host of queer little seeds,

Of flowers and mosses, of ferns and weeds,

Are under the leaves and under the snow,

Waiting to grow !

3 Directive 3: Find two words in the lines above in which e has some other sound than e short or e long:

💡 Phonics & Spelling Rules to Remember

1. Vowel Team “ee” (ēe)

Two letter e's together form the vowel team ee, making the long vowel sound /iː/ (as in sēen, bēe, trēe, sēeds, wēeds). Mark with a macron over the first e (ēe).

2. Digraph “ch-” + “-eek”

Notice cheek: starts with consonant digraph ch- and ends with letter k because k follows a vowel digraph (ee) rather than a single short vowel.

3. R-Controlled “er” Sound

When e is followed by letter r (as in ferns, under, flowers), the r controls the vowel, producing the /ɜːr/ or /ər/ sound (neither short ĕ nor long ē).