Long Vowel Words – FREE PDF Download

Children continue to memorize and recognize familiar words. Seeing, reading, and remembering the most common words used in grade-level texts is essential to their reading skills in the future.

Below are the long vowel word patterns taught to young kids. Finding different ways to practice long vowels will ensure students can quickly and easily read these words when they encounter them. 

Long Vowel Words List

The long vowel words list includes the following words:

Long a Words

ace	daze	lair	save	wain	gray
acorn	drake	lake	scale	wait	hay
age	drape	lame	scrape	wake	Jay
air	equate	lane	shade	wane	lay
ale	face	late	shake	waste	May
alien	fade	mace	shame	wave	nay
ape	fair	made	shape	whale	okay
ate	fake	make	shave	bail	pay
awake	fame	male	skate	fail	play
bade	fate	mane	slain	hail	pray
bait	faze	mate	slave	jail	ray
bake	flake	maze	snail	afraid	say
bale	flame	nail	snake	aim	slay
bane	frail	name	space	braid	spray
base	frame	nape	spade	brain	stay
baste	gage	pace	sprain	complain	stray
blade	gait	page	stage	drain	sway
blame	gale	pair	stair	grain	tray
blaze	game	pale	stake	laid	way
brace	gape	pane	stale	maid	eight
brake	gate	paper	state	mail	freight
brave	gave	paste	stave	main	neigh
cage	gaze	pave	strain	paid	neighbor
cake	glade	place	strait	pail	reign
came	glaze	plane	tail	pain	sleigh
cane	grace	plate	take	plain	weigh
cape	grade	quail	tale	raid	grey
case	grape	quake	tame	rain	hey
cave	grate	race	tape	raise	obey
chain	grave	rage	taste	Spain	prey
chase	graze	rail	Tate	stain	survey
crane	hale	rake	trace	trail	they
crate	haste	rate	trade	vain	gauge
crave	hate	rave	train	bay	kale
craze	haze	raze	trait	bray	vale
dale	jade	sage	vane	clay	Yale
dame	Jake	sail	vase	cray	bate
Dane	Jane	sale	wade	crayon	sate
date	Kate	same	wage	day	babe
Dave	lace	sane	wail	fray

Long e Words

agree	sea	cream	bee	reek	beet	brief
athlete	tea	dream	fee	seek	feet	chief
beetle	beach	gleam	flee	sleek	fleet	diesel
between	bleach	ream	free	week	greet	grief
candy	breach	scream	glee	creel	meet	grieve
cheese	leach	seam	knee	feel	sheet	niece
compete	peach	steam	Lee	heel	sleet	priest
concrete	preach	stream	see	keel	street	relief
delete	reach	team	tee	peel	sweet	relieve
each	teach	bean	three	reel	tweet	retrieve
easy	bead	clean	tree	steel	breeze	shriek
eat	knead	dean	wee	wheel	freeze	species
eve	lead	glean	beech	green	sneeze	thief
family	plead	jeans	breech	keen	squeeze	thieve
geese	read	lean	leech	preen	wheeze	wield
gene	beak	mean	screech	queen	ceiling	yield
grease	bleak	wean	speech	screen	conceive	gee
here	creak	cheap	bleed	seen	deceive	spree
increase	freak	heap	breed	sheen	perceive	thee
leaf	leak	leap	creed	teen	receipt	coffee
lease	peak	beast	deed	beep	receive	defeat
leave	sneak	feast	feed	cheep	alley	reheat
peace	speak	least	freed	creep	chimney	repeat
peat	squeak	yeast	greed	deep	donkey	teat
people	streak	beat	heed	jeep	hockey	upbeat
Pete	teak	bleat	kneed	keep	honey	asleep
piece	tweak	cheat	need	peep	jockey	bleep
please	weak	cleat	reed	seep	journey	mead
pleat	deal	feat	seed	sheep	key	agreed
release	heal	heat	speed	sleep	kidney	indeed
release	meal	meat	steed	steep	money	needle
Steve	peal	neat	treed	sweep	monkey	extreme
teacher	real	seat	tweed	weep	parsley	meme
tease	seal	treat	weed	deer	pulley	mere
teeth	squeal	wheat	cheek	jeer	trolley
theme	steal	cleave	creek	leer	Turkey
these	teal	heave	Greek	peer	valley
flea	veal	leaves	leek	seer	achieve
pea	zeal	sheave	meek	sneer	belief
plea	beam	weave	peek	steer	believe

Long i Words

bide	grime	mine	sire	tine	vie
bike	gripe	mite	site	tire	died
bile	guise	nice	slice	tribe	dried
bite	hide	Nile	slide	tripe	fried
bribe	hike	nine	slime	twice	lied
bride	hire	pike	smile	vice	tied
brine	hive	pile	snide	vile	tried
chide	ice	pine	snipe	vine	fight
chime	iron	pipe	spice	while	fright
chive	island	price	spike	whine	high
cried	jibe	pride	spine	white	knight
crime	jive	prime	spire	wide	light
dice	kite	prize	sprite	wife	night
dime	knife	quiet	stile	wine	right
dine	lice	quite	stride	wipe	sight
dire	life	rice	strife	wire	thigh
dive	lighthouse	ride	strike	wise	tight
drive	like	rife	stripe	write	splice
fife	lime	ripe	strive	die	dike
file	line	rise	swine	fie
fine	live	rite	swipe	flies
fire	mice	scribe	thrice	lie
five	Mike	shine	thrive	pie
fly	mile	shrine	tide	tie
glide	mime	side	tile	ties

Long o Words

bone	lobe	rose	roach	float	know
broke	lode	rote	goad	gloat	low
choke	lone	scope	load	goat	mow
chose	lope	shone	road	moat	pillow
chrome	mode	slope	toad	throat	row
clone	mole	smoke	cloak	aloe	shadow
close	mope	spoke	croak	doe	show
code	node	stoke	oak	echoes	slow
coke	nope	stole	soak	foe	snow
cone	nose	stone	coal	goes	sow
cope	note	stove	foal	heroes	stow
crone	phone	strode	goal	Joe	throw
dole	poke	stroke	shoal	potatoes	tow
dome	pole	those	foam	toe	window
donut	pope	tome	loam	tomatoes	yellow
dote	pose	tone	roam	tornadoes	blown
drone	probe	tote	groan	volcanoes	blown
elbow	prone	vote	Joan	woe	grown
globe	prose	whole	loan	blow	known
gnome	quote	woke	moan	bow	mown
hole	robe	wrote	boast	crow	shown
home	robot	yoke	roast	fellow	sown
hone	rode	zone	toast	flow	thrown
hope	role	broach	bloat	glow	sole
hose	Rome	coach	boat	grow
joke	rope	poach	coat	hollow

Long u Words

attitude	flute	mute	uniforms	flew
attitude	fuse	pew	unique	grew
brute	glue	prune	unit	hew
bugle	huge	pule	unite	knew
chute	human	pupil	universe	new
clue	juice	ruby	use	shrewd
computer	June	rule	usual	stew
crew	junior	ruse	utensils	argue
cube	jute	sue	vacuum	rescue
cue	lure	suit	yule	flue
cute	lute	tissue	blew	cure
due	mew	true	brew	fume
duke	mule	tube	chew	puke
dune	muse	unicorn	dew	pure
duty	museum	unicycle	drew	rude
feud	music	uniform	few

Closing

Teaching these words can be done in a variety of creative ways like word hunts, memory games, activity mats, and tracing sheets. No matter how they learn them, these words will increase their confidence and reading skills, and set them up for reading success.