-ee Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Students will read and use -ee family words to build phonics and fluency.

Vocabulary
bee, tree, see, knee, three, free

Teaching Notes

• Blend onsets with -ee.
• Read the story aloud and highlight -ee words.
• Practice onset-rime segmentation with students.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family
A bee buzzes by a tree. We see three bees fly free. I bend my knee to look close. The tree gives shade for you and me. We laugh as the bees flee.

Word Family to Learn

, , , , ,

Word Play

ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee

Sentences to Fill In

A buzzes by a .
We s fly .
I bend my to look close.
The gives shade for you and me.
We laugh as the s flee.

Activities

• Act out or illustrate the story.
• Write two new sentences with -ee words.

Games

• “Missing Letter”: fill in the hidden onsets in Word Play.
• “Speed Build”: say each full word out loud after filling in.

Reflection

• My favorite -ee word today is:
• Now make your own sentence using some of the -ee words you learned.