Read these short (e) words in each of the columns. If you need to decode (sound out) these words, remember to “slide” the beginning sound into the vowel sound, then “hook on” the ending sound.
| bet | Bret | bed | bled | den | Glen |
| get | Chet | fed | bred | fen | then |
| jet | fret | led | fled | hen | when |
| let | whet | Ned | Fred | men | |
| met | red | pled | pen | ||
| net | Ted | shed | ten | ||
| pet | wed | shred | |||
| set | sled | pep | prep | ||
| wet | sped | rep | step | ||
| beg | Greg | hem | stem | bend | blend |
| keg | them | end | spend | ||
| leg | fend | trend | |||
| peg | bent | Brent | lend | ||
| cent | scent | mend | |||
| bell | dwell | dent | spent | rend | |
| dell | quell | Kent | Trent | send | |
| fell | shell | lent | tend | ||
| jell | smell | rent | wend | ||
| sell | spell | sent | |||
| tell | swell | tent | kept | crept | |
| well | vent | wept | slept | ||
| yell | went | swept |
| best | blest | deck | check | belt | smelt |
| jest | chest | neck | fleck | felt | spelt |
| nest | crest | peck | speck | gelt | |
| pest | quest | melt | |||
| rest | pelt | ||||
| test | left | cleft | welt | ||
| vest | deft | theft | |||
| west | heft | Bess | bless | ||
| zest | less | chess | |||
| elf | shelf | mess | dress | ||
| pelf | press | ||||
| self | stress | ||||
| edge | dredge | mesh | flesh | help | whelp |
| hedge | fledge | fresh | kelp | ||
| ledge | pledge | ||||
| sedge | sledge | bench | clench | length | strength |
| wedge | wench | drench | |||
| French | fetch | fletch | |||
| fence | thence | quench | ketch | sketch | |
| hence | whence | stench | retch | stretch | |
| pence | trench | vetch |
| dead | bread | death | breath |
| head | dread | ||
| lead | spread | sweat | |
| stead | threat | ||
| thread | health | ||
| tread | wealth |
absent |
compel | fragment | patent |
| address | competent | freshmen | pellet |
| advent | confess | hamlet | quicken |
| ascendent | conquest | happen | reckless |
| asset | content | helmet | redneck |
| banquet | contest | henchmen | rotten |
| basinet | convent | henpeck | selfish |
| basket | dentist | impel | shipment |
| basset | dispel | impress | spectrum |
| beckon | distinct | inject | splendid |
| bellhop | docket | inkwell | subject |
| Benjamin | dragnet | insect | sudden |
| billet | eggshell | intellect | sunbelt |
| bonnet | enchantment | intent | sundeck |
| bracket | enrich | kitchen | suspect |
| brisket | entrap | lapel | suspend |
| bucket | evident | ligament | talent |
| buffet | exit | liniment | tenement |
| cabinet | expect | magnet | thicket |
| casket | expend | neckband | unclench |
| castanet | extend | nutmeg | unrented |
| checklist | filament | nutshell | uptrend |
| chestnut | flatten | object | velvet |