ESL Phonics Lessons: Short i, Long i, Long e (Tongue Twisters)

Welcome to our ESL Phonics lesson focused on Tongue Twisters for the short “i”, long “i,” and long “e” sounds. This fun and engaging lesson is designed to help students improve their pronunciation, fluency, and confidence by practicing these similar sounds through tongue twisters. It can be quite difficult for ESL learners to differentiate these sounds, and using tongue twisters is an excellent way to enhance phonemic awareness and make learning phonics an enjoyable experience for ESL students.

ESL Phonics: Lesson Objectives

Boost Confidence: Build students’ confidence in their language skills through fun and repetitive practice.

Improve Pronunciation: Enhance students’ ability to pronounce these sounds clearly and accurately.

Increase Fluency: Develop students’ reading and speaking fluency by practicing challenging tongue twisters.

Mastering the short “i,” long “i,” and long “e” sounds 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 introduces several silly tongue twisters to help students practice distinguishing these similar vowel sounds. 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.