1. Long ‘e’ sound You can make long ‘ e ‘ words with these letters: ee ea ey ie and a few with m agic e But we are going to look at ‘ee’ and ‘ea’ words mostly.

2. The long ‘e’ sound is usually in the middle of the word: seed beach ief But with ‘ey’, the long ‘e’ sound is usually at the end.. m onkey But what about tree, free, bee, see or me? Hey – have you forgotten about tea, or sea?

3. So let’s see if you can spell some long ‘e’ words: t _ _ cher Is it ee? Is it ea? Maybe it’s ie? Or perhaps ey? s p _ _ d c r _ _ k i n g p l _ _ s e c h _ _ s e t r _ _ k _ _ d i s _ _ s e k n _ _

4. You just have to learn what the word looks like and remember it. There are no rules for long ‘e’!!!! Cheese Freeze Breeze Wheeze Knees Trees Sees Bees Fees breed Tease Please Seas Crease Grease Pleas Disease Stream Cream Team Beast Feast Monkey Donkey Key Chief Handkerchief Thief Quay He Be Supercede