Short e 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 a variety of common short e words, which children learn to decode in kindergarten. Finding different ways to practice these will ensure students can quickly and easily read these words when they encounter them.

Short e Words

The short e word list includes the following words:

bed	dense	glen	lent	oven	rent	spend	vet
beg	dent	Greg	lest	oxen	rest	stem	web
bell	dwell	hem	let	peg	scent	swell	wed
Ben	end	hen	med	pell	sell	Ted	well
bet	even	item	Meg	pen	send	tell	west
bred	fed	jest	mell	pent	sense	ten	wet
cell	fell	jet	men	pest	set	tend	when
cent	fen	keg	mend	pet	shed	tent	wren
chest	fled	Ken	met	pled	shell	test	yell
defend	fret	led	Nell	quell	sled	them	yen
defense	gel	leg	net	red	smell	then	yet
dell	gem	lend	omen	reg	sped	trend	zen
den	get	lense	open	ren	spell	vest

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.

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