Free printable · Sound: ee / ea
ee and ea Decodable Story – Three Sheep and a Bee (Free Printable)
A short decodable story that practises the ee / ea sound, plus a matching handwriting sheet. Every word can be sounded out by a child who has learned vowel teams, apart from a few common tricky words.
Download the free PDF (2 pages, A4)Prints well in black and white. Free for home and classroom use.
For parents
- Read the story together three times this week. Your child colours a star each time.
- Point to each word as they read. ee and ea can both say the long e sound. Ask: which spelling is in seal? Which is in see?
- Hunt for the ee / ea words and write six of them in the boxes.
- Finish with the tracing sheet: trace the grey words, then write each one on its own.
For teachers
- Fits a systematic synthetic phonics sequence at Set 3 · Vowel teams, after teaching the ee and ea spellings of the long e sound. Suits Year 1.
- Tracing sheet uses the SA Beginners handwriting style.
- 65 words, 18 different ee / ea words, short sentences.
- Use for small-group reading, repeated reading for fluency, or homework.
- Photocopy freely for your class.
ee / ea words in this story
- three
- sheep
- sleep
- tree
- bee
- leaf
- near
- sneezes
- flees
- green
- weed
- eat
- sweet
- seeds
- need
- stream
- clean
- feel
Tricky words used
- a
- the
- one
- to
- some
- they
- is
Common words that can't be fully sounded out yet. Practise them by sight.
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Practise ee / ea with Digby
In Wombat Words, your child reads stories like this one aloud and Digby follows along, then they trace the tricky words in their school's handwriting style. You get a report showing which sounds they've mastered.