ESL Phonics Lessons: Long “e” (Read for Speed!)

Welcome to our ESL Phonics lesson focused on Speed Reading Long Vowel “e.” This lesson is designed to help students improve their reading speed, accuracy, and fluency while focusing on the long vowel “e” sound. By engaging in speed reading activities, students will become more comfortable and confident in their reading abilities, enhancing their overall language proficiency.

ESL Phonics: Lesson Objectives

Increase Reading Confidence: Build students’ confidence in their reading skills through practice and repetition.

Improve Reading Fluency: Enhance students’ ability to read smoothly and quickly by focusing on the long vowel “e” sound.

Recognize and Use Long Vowel “e” Words: Help students identify and correctly use words that contain the long “e” sound.

Mastering the long vowel “e” sound is an essential step in learning English phonics for ESL students. Explore the resources ESL Phonics section at Stickyball.net to find worksheets, games, and more to support your phonics teaching journey.

The free ESL phonics lesson below features a short reading passage focusing on the long “e” sound. Students should practice reading this passage repeatedly, writing how many seconds it takes them to read it each time, with the goal of reading it in 30 seconds. This ESL phonics lesson is available for free download, and you can download many more lesson like this in our textbook Phonics Monster: Long Vowels.