Learning to spell is important. Besides
learning to form letters, learning to spell is the next skill
needed to write. Once one learns to spell one can write
letters, book reviews, short stories, novels or whatever one
wants.
It is easy to spell if one knows the keys to the phonics code.
Knowing the sounds letters make, helps one spell phonetically,
syllable by syllable.
ee Phonogram
Phonograms are letters that stand for a single speech
sound.
Phonograms stick together. They work with each other to make
one sound.
There are five "E" phonograms. They look different, but when
they talk they make the same "E" sound.
The letters ee are a phonogram. They make the "E" sound.
eel, see, seem, bee, feet, agree, cheer
Using the ee Phonogram
The ee phonogram is popular. It is found in lots of words.
The ee phonogram is easy to get along with. The ee phonogram
isn't picky. It can be found in the beginning, middle or the
end of word.
beginning: eel, easy
middle: beet, steering
end: degree, tree
Exercise 1
Which words are spelled correctly?
1) keep, kep, keip, keap
2) paek, peik, peek, peake
3) grene, grean, green, greain
4) street, streat, streit, strete
5) meeke, meike, meak, meek
6) quen, quene, queen, queine
7) jeep, jeape, jeap, jepe
8) teeth, teath, tethe, teithe
9) agrea, agrei, agree, agreee
10) beafe, beife, beef, befe
Answers:
1) keep, 2)peek, 3)green, 4)street, 5)meek, 6)queen, 7)jeep,
8)teeth, 9)agree, 10)beef
Exercise 2
Directions: Say the word. Cover the word. Write the word
three times
cheer
1)_______________2)_______________3)_______________
week
1)_______________2)_______________3)_______________
agree
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
beef
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
queen
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
eel
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
speech
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
meek
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
steer
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
sweet
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
beet
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
geese
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
degree
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
teeth
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
queen
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
agree
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
peek
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________
Exercise 3
Fill in the blanks with the words below.
sweet, steering, beef, teeth, eel, geese speech, cheered peek,
weeks, degrees, beets agrees, queen
1) The flock of ______ flew south for the winter.
2) The crowd ________ when the football team won.
3) Summer camp lasts for two _________.
4) If the majority __________ we can finish the project today.
5) ___________ comes from a cow.
6) The __________ waved to the crowd from a window in the
castle.
7) Brush your __________ after you eat the candy.
8) The _____ swims in the water.
9) After I won the award I gave a thank you _________.
10) Don't _________, close your eyes.
11) Water freezes at thirty-two___________.
12) I do not like to eat ________ or ________.
13) Turn the car's __________ wheel to the right to turn.
14) The punch is too __________ to drink.
Answers:
1) geese, 2)cheered, 3)weeks, 4)agrees, 5) 6)queen, 7)teeth,
8)eel, 9)speech, 10)peek, 11)degrees, 12)beets, beef,
13)steering, 14)sweet
Exercise 4
Unscramble the words.
1) ewek
2) efeb
3) reage
4) ethte
5) echspe
6) keme
7) eeergd
8) eignrets
9) seeeg
10) ele
11) neuqe
12) wetes
Answers:
1) week,2)beef, 3)agree, 4)teeth, 5)speech,6)meek, 7) degree,
8)steering, 9) geese, 10) eel 11)queen 12)sweet
The next lesson covers another phonogram you can use when
you hear the "E" sound.
