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Check out these must-have Long E Family Spelling Patterns Activities. We have a stack of Printables, Games, Worksheets and hands-on activities to keep learners engaged and happy. Our teaching resources are guaranteed to inspire your teaching and your students!

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Long vowel sounds are among the first sounds to be taught as part of early years phonics-based learning programs and making the link between sounds and spellings can be a difficult concept to grasp. Teachers need to help students to understand that certain letter combinations can make a vowel short or long (such as “pin” and “pine”) and that different spelling variations can end up making the exact same sound (such as “rain” and “date”).

Unfortunately, the long e sound can be tricky to teach because it has lots of different ways to spell it and there are seven different spelling patterns for the Long e sound.

1. e – as in me, be, she, he
2. e-e, as in eve, these, here
3. ea- as in meat, eat, tea
4. ee – as in bee, teeth
5. ey – as in monkey, key
6. ie – as in field, thief
7. y- as in baby