Vowel Team worksheets: Download free activities to spell and trace

These fun worksheets explore digraphs to help learners understand the concept of one sound being produced by two letters in English. This letter pattern or vowel team makes it impossible to decode a word. Therefore, a word with a vowel team is a sight word that must be learned, as it cannot be sounded out.

The vowel team ‘ai’ sounds like long ‘a’ in wait but short ‘e’ in said, and short ‘a’ in plait. Then, there is ‘ea’ that sounds like long ‘e’ in meal and short ‘e’ in head. Also, ‘ee’, ‘ie’ and ‘ei’ make the long ‘e’ sound as in sleep, field and receive.

Click here to see 10 vowel teams in full sentences in fun stories

Since there is so much to learn about a vowel team, you can use these free worksheets in learning environments for:

• Preschoolers
• Older children in remedial classes
• Adults in reading improvement classes
• Foreign language speakers learning English

Have fun with learning word lists, tracing and filling in the blanks with letters to spell words correctly.

Download vowel team worksheets

AI words – bait, nail, rain, said

EA words – head, weak, mean, beat

EE words – deep, feet, been, seed

EI words – heist, rein, vein, deceit

EY words – they, prey, key, alley

IE words – brief, field, ties, fries

OA words – boat, soak, road, toast

OO words – book, root, foot, mood

OU words – about, shout, soup, hour

OW words – cow, how, low, show