Free printable vowel team — ee phonics worksheets. Four practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, and rapid naming chart.
Grade: 1st-2ndPhase 4: Vowel Teams & AdvancedPattern: EE vowel team (long E sound)
beefeeseetreefreethreefeetmeetsweetseedneedfeed
1 Decodable Reading Passage
A short, decodable story embedding vowel team — ee words. Students read the passage then highlight all the target words.
Kim's Green Seed
Skill: Vowel Team — EE • Sight Words: the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have, with, you, are, be
Coloring page included in PDF
Kim went out to see a big green tree. She had a sweet seed. Kim had a need to put the seed. She wanted to make it grow.
Kim had to dig a deep hole. Her little feet could not push the spade. The spade was too tall for Kim. She felt sad.
Then Kim saw a big stick. She ran to grab it. Kim put the stick on the spade. She pushed the stick. The spade went deep.
“I did it!” said Kim. She put the sweet seed in the hole. She gave it a drink. Kim will keep the seed safe all week. She will peek to see it grow.
Circle or highlight all the EE vowel team words in the story above. How many did you find?
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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
weed
free
bee
bee
sweet
free
sweep
weed
free
weed
sweet
sweep
sweep
sweet
bee
bee
Target words: bee, free, sweet, weed, sweep
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📖 Decodable Readers
Printable mini-books for Vowel Team — EE practice. Each reader includes a story + coloring page illustration.
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.