Vowel Teams (ew, ue) Worksheets: Story 2, Tam and the Blue Vane

Free printable vowel teams — ew and ue phonics worksheets. Five practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, rapid naming chart, and word search.

Grade: 1st-2nd Phase 4: Vowel Teams & Advanced Pattern: EW and UE vowel teams (new, blue)
new few dew chew grew flew blew drew stew crew blue clue

1 Decodable Reader

A free illustrated mini-book for Vowel Teams — EW and UE, plus the same story as a passage sheet for highlighting.

Tam and the Blue Vane mini-book cover
Free illustrated mini-book · Level 4

Tam and the Blue Vane

A full-color picture book your student reads on their own. Skill: Vowel Teams — EW and UE. Print, cut and staple.

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Passage sheet: the same story on one page, for highlighting the target words

Kim liked to make things on the bench by her shed. Today she had a stack of new blue blocks. She glued little red and white bits on top of each one. Tam liked to run fast. She raced past the bench so fast that she made a big gust. The blocks fell down, and the glued bits flew off into the grass.

"Tam, look what you did!" Kim yelled. "You must keep away from my bench!"

"I just like to run," said Tam. They argued for a long time. At last, Tam walked away, sad.

The day after, the grass was wet with dew. Kim drew a plan for a vane with blue fins. She made it and set it on top of a pole. But the day was hot and still. The fins did not spin at all. Kim sat on the bench and felt glum. "It needs a gust, and there is no gust today," she said.

Tam saw her from the hill, and she had a plan. She ran down and dashed around and around the pole. Then the blue fins spun, and they spun so fast!

Kim jumped up. "Tam, you did it!" she yelled. "I was rude to you, but you are a true pal."

Tam grinned. Then the two of them glued the bits back on the blue blocks together.

Circle or highlight all the EW and UE vowel team words in the story above. How many did you find?
/oo/: ew, ue and ui poster
Free color poster

/oo/: ew, ue and ui

ew, ue and ui can all say /oo/, as in stew, blue and fruit.

Print it full size for the wall, or smaller for a phonics notebook.

2 Vowel Teams — EW and UE Words

The words this story set practices, in the two groups used by the word sort.

EW Words (10)

new, few, dew, chew, grew, flew, blew, drew, stew, crew

UE Words (10)

blue, clue, glue, true, due, cue, hue, argue, rescue, value

Phrases to read
a few new clues · the crew in blue · chew the stew · glue that is new · a true rescue · dew on the grass · blew and flew · drew a blue jay · the plant grew
RAN chart words
new, crew, blue, cue, value
Sight words
the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have, with, you, are, be

3 OO, EW and UE Picture Worksheets

OO, EW and UE words to read, match and write, with pictures. Each PDF has its answer key on page 2.

Find the Word: a oo, ew and ue picture worksheet

Find the Word

Look at each picture and circle the right word out of three.

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Circle the Picture: a oo, ew and ue picture worksheet

Circle the Picture

Read a word, then circle its picture out of three.

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Which Sentence?: a oo, ew and ue picture worksheet

Which Sentence?

Look at a picture and pick the sentence that matches it.

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Read and Fill In: a oo, ew and ue picture worksheet

Read and Fill In

Read a short story, then fill in the missing words.

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Sound Boxes: a oo, ew and ue picture worksheet

Sound Boxes

Say each picture and write its sounds in the boxes.

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Read and Match: a oo, ew and ue picture worksheet

Read and Match

Read each word, then draw a line to its picture.

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4 Story Worksheets

4 ready-to-print PDFs for this story's vowel teams — ew and ue words. Each one opens as its own file.

Vowel Teams — EW and UE word sort printable preview

Word Sort

Cut-apart word cards to sort: EW Words or UE Words. Answer key on page 2.

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Vowel Teams — EW and UE phrasing cards printable preview

Phrasing Cards

Short phrases to cut out and read smoothly, for fluency.

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Vowel Teams — EW and UE word search printable preview

Word Search

Find 12 vowel teams — ew and ue words in the grid. Answer key on page 2.

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Vowel Teams — EW and UE ran chart printable preview

RAN Chart

A grid of five words to read fast, with room to record three timed tries.

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Free Printable Vowel Teams (ew, ue) Worksheets

These free vowel teams (ew, ue) worksheets provide structured phonics practice for EW and UE vowel teams (new, blue). Activities include a decodable passage embedding target words in a fun story, a word sort that separates ew words from ue 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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