Phonics: Short E
This page contains a variety of phonics worksheets and printables for teaching students about the short e vowel sound.
Cut out the six short e words on the bottom of the page along the dotted lines and glue them in the boxes below the matching pictures.
1st and 2nd Grades
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A mini-book with lots of short e words, including Jen, net, nest, tent, and wet.
Kindergarten
With this cut-and-glue activity, students will need scissors and glue sticks. Students will create a small flip book featuring words with a short e sound.
1st Grade
Color the pictures and use the letter squares to make the words shown.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Color the pictures. Then cut out the letters and glue them onto the paper to make a word for each object shown.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Cut the letters and make two short e words: hen and jet.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Cut the letters and make two short e words: pen and nest.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
This phonics printable has 22 pennants with short e words that can be cut out, colored, and strung up on string around the classroom.
Kindergarten to 2nd Grade
Use a pencil to write the missing letters for each of the short e words and write the word on the ruled lines.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Have your students trace along the dotted lines to write the short e word and then rewrite that word on the primary-ruled lines next to it.
1st Grade
Of the twelve pictures on this phonics worksheet, color only the pictures that have a short e sound in their name.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Use a bingo dabber, colored pencils, or crayons to color the letters in the words bed, web, hen, and net.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Find the short e word in each row of jumbled letters and circle it.
1st Grade
Find the short e word in each horizontal set of letters. Words include hen, jet, egg, and pen.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Search for the short e words hidden among each group of letters. This version has 7 questions.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Listen as your teacher reads words. Circle the correct words on your paper.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Your students will draw lines to match each picture to the correct short e word.
1st Grade
Write as many short e words as you can. This page has primary-ruled lines.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Short E - ABC Order FREE
Circle the six short e words in the box, then write the words in alphabetical order.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
This word ladder puzzle can be used to help students build basic three-letter words with the short a and short e sounds. Words include: jet, pet, pen, pan, fan, can.
Pre-K through 1st Grade
This short vowel phonics poem has many short e words in it, including beg, egg, get, pen, red, and end.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
This short vowel phonics poem has many short e words in it, including wet, pet, fetch, and better.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Use a bingo dabber, ink dotter, or crayon to mark the words with the short e vowel sound.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
This page has a picture of a egg and an elephant. First color the illustrations, then practice writing the letters E and e.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Use letter stampers to make the short-e words. This activity makes a fun learning center.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
This fun phonics activity has students sorting out the picture cards into groups of words with a short e vowel sound and and those that don't.
Kindergarten to 2nd Grade
Use these printable short e phonics cards as a memory match game. Have students take turns flipping cards over trying to make matches between the pictures and words.
Kindergarten to 2nd Grade
This printable activity has thirty cards to be cut out and sorted into groups of words with a short e sound and words without.
1st Grade
Cut apart the word squares and arrange them on the table to make sentences. Write the sentences on the page provided.
Kindergarten to 2nd Grade
Practice reading short e words with this whole-class card game.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Your class will have fun playing this phonics-themed scavenger hunt activity. Hide the fifteen cards around the classroom so they can find them and write the short e words on their answer page.
1st and 2nd Grades
These 48 flashcards include many three-letter words such as pen, egg, hen, let, net, get, pet, and set. There are also longer words, like bench, check, chess, and dress.
Kindergarten to 2nd Grade
Move the slider up and down and read the short e words. This slider is shaped like a bear.
Kindergarten to 2nd Grade
Phonics word wheel to spin and read the word: rest, fed, bed, tell, well, pet, let, best
Kindergarten to 2nd Grade
Phonics word wheel: well, spell, tell, bell, smell, and sell
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Phonics word wheel: friend, lend, spend, send, bend
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
The -ent phonics circle has cent, spent, dent, tent, and rent.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
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