Long E (ee) Worksheets

Free printable vowel team — ee phonics worksheets. Four practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, and rapid naming chart.

Grade: 1st-2nd Phase 4: Vowel Teams & Advanced Pattern: EE vowel team (long E sound)
bee fee see tree free three feet meet sweet seed need feed

1 Decodable Reading Passage

A short, decodable story embedding vowel team — ee words. Students read the passage then highlight all the target words.

Brad and the Lost Pig
Skill: Vowel Team — EE  •  Sight Words: the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have, with, you, are, be
Brad and the Lost Pig coloring page illustration
Coloring page included in PDF
Brad went to the pen to feed Pip the pig. Brad held a sweet plum in his hand. He wanted to see his pig munch on it. But Pip was not there. The gate was open, and Pip was gone. "I need to find him," Brad said. Brad took three fast steps past the shed. He walked past a tall weed and looked around. Pip was a quick pig, and Brad had to run just to keep up with him. Brad heard a buzz and saw a fat bee, but he did not see Pip. Brad went down the hill and into the deep grass. He stopped to peek past a big green tree. There, he spotted his lost pal! Pip was resting by a big rock. The
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Brad and the Lost Pig decodable reader mini-book
Free decodable reader Read “Brad and the Lost Pig” as an illustrated mini-book → The full printable story + coloring page, using only vowel team — ee sounds your child has learned.

2 Word Sort

Cut out the word cards and sort them into the correct columns: Real Words vs Nonsense Words.

Real Words
Nonsense Words
bee
fee
see
tree
free
three
feet
meet
sweet
seed
feep
deep
leep
beep
keep
heep
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3 Phrasing Practice Cards

Practice reading these phrases for fluency. Cut out the cards and read them quickly and smoothly.

the bee on fee
a fee in see
the see and tree
a tree with free
the free on three
a three in feet
the feet and meet
a meet with sweet
the sweet on seed
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4 RAN Chart (Rapid Naming)

Read each word in the grid as quickly as you can. Time yourself and try to beat your best time!

Decodable RAN Chart — Vowel Team — EE
sweet
sweep
free
bee
bee
bee
sweep
free
weed
weed
free
sweep
sweet
bee
weed
sweet
Target words: bee, free, sweet, weed, sweep
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5 Word Search

Find and circle the vowel team — ee words hidden in the grid. Words go across, down, and diagonally — a fun way to reinforce vowel team — ee word recognition.

Vowel Team — EE Word Search
Q
M
F
Z
B
E
E
N
I
M
I
S
T
R
E
E
S
Y
Y
E
D
X
W
N
E
S
E
E
F
E
U
U
M
E
R
E
W
Z
E
T
V
Q
F
E
E
L
D
Y
E
D
B
K
K
Y
F
T
J
M
D
P
E
Y
S
P
F
E
Q
A
L
D
T
A
N
E
E
D
E
D
I
N
T
H
R
E
E
K
C
T
A
J
N
O
F
H
V
S
L
V
Q
Q
BEE FEE FEED FEET FREE MEET NEED SEE SEED SWEET THREE TREE
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📖 Decodable Readers for Vowel Team — EE

Next step: once your child can sound out these words, have them read a matching decodable mini-book. Each Vowel Team — EE reader is a printable story + coloring page using only sounds they've learned.

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Free Printable Long E (ee) Worksheets

These free long e (ee) worksheets provide structured phonics practice for the EE vowel team (long E sound). Activities include a decodable passage embedding target words in a fun story, a word sort activity to distinguish real and nonsense words, phrasing practice cards for fluency building, and a rapid naming (RAN) chart for automaticity. Each worksheet prints cleanly on standard US Letter paper.

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