![]() Some teachers also group them as wet/meal words (ea) and nature words (ee). Then when your students ask which spelling to use for a long e word, you can say ‘/ee/ like tree/meat’. So you would introduce ee with the word tree, and ea with the word meat. One trick is to use a guide word with each spelling when introducing these. Neither one is more common, so these will simply have to be memorized. EE and EA Vowel TeamsĮE and EA sometimes spell the long e sound in the beginning, middle, or end of a base word. Of course, students should be confident with the magic e syllable. Examples include eve, delete, and extreme. This one is usually in the middle of a base word. The e silent e spelling pattern is actually not that common. ![]() Students must understand how to split words into syllables and know what open syllables are. ![]() Sometimes ee or ea are used at the end of a word ( tea) so it’s not a rule that the long e sound at the end of a syllable is always spelled with just e. Some examples include b e, even, and v eto. Spelling Generalizations for Long E E aloneĪt the end of an open syllable, e makes the long e sound (says its name) and this is the most common way of spelling the long e sound. ![]() Students should also be able to find the base word, as some of these rules apply to the base word even if it has a suffix. The majority of these are vowel teams, so students should already know the open, silent e, and vowel team syllables. The long e sound can be represented by 8 different spelling patterns: ![]()
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