Sort and Spell: Short e Word Families

Jet toward understanding of short e word families with the help of this hands-on activity! Students will first cut out the pictures at the bottom of the page. They’ll determine which word family the pictures belong in, then glue them in place. Finally, learners will write the corresponding word next to each picture. 

Designed for kindergartners and first graders, this worksheet is a perfect choice for building learners’ phonemic awareness. As young learners work with word families and rhyming words, they can improve their skills in phoneme segmentation and blending. A strong grasp on these concepts allows students to read more accurately and efficiently. 

Find more worksheets in this series here: Sort and Spell: Short a Word Families and Sort and Spell: Short i Word Families. For more practice with short e word families specifically, try Build Word Families: -et and Word Family Homes: Short e.