Word Family Homes: Short e

Home is where the word family practice is in this charming worksheet! The six homes each represent a short e word family like -ed and -eg. Learners will need to decide which of the three pictures belong in each of the family homes and which do not. These pictures represent short words like bed, leg, and gem. 

This worksheet was designed for kindergartners and first graders learning to break words into their sounds. Students will improve their phonemic awareness through isolation and segmentation. They can also start noticing patterns in words and identifying rhyming words using word families. 

Check out more worksheets in this series here: Word Family Homes: Short a and Word Family Homes: Short i. For more short e practice, try Build a Sentence: Short E and Read and Draw: Short E.