Reading · Ages 5–6 · 10 minutes

Short E Middle-Sound Listening

Minimal word contrasts train children to notice the middle vowel and recognize the short-e sound accurately.

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Today I am practising: identifying the short-e medial vowel in CVC words

Circle the short-e word: bed or bad.

Circle the short-e word: pen or pin.

Write the missing middle letter: h_n (a chicken).

Change the vowel in bag to make beg.

Sort red, jam, ten, and sit into short-e and not-short-e groups.

Write a short-e CVC word that rhymes with ten.

Grown-up note: Ask your learner to explain one answer in their own words.

For the grown-up

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