IE Vowel Team Reading Passage, Words Chart and Worksheets (Free PDF)

Welcome back to my ongoing project dedicated to helping young English learners explore the wonderful world of vowel teams through engaging stories, fun worksheets, and illustrated vocabulary charts! If you're new here, I'm an ESL/EFL teacher and content creator sharing my printable materials to support fellow educators around the world.

This is the third blog post in my phonics series, and today’s spotlight is on the vowel team “IE”. Just like in my previous posts on the “EA” and “OO” vowel combinations, I’ve created a complete printable pack filled with illustrated charts, matching and labeling worksheets, and an original reading passage – this time about two friends visiting a bakery... and a mischievous magpie!

Fruit and Vegetables Vocabulary Charts and Worksheets (Free PDF)

As part of my ongoing mission to support English teachers around the world, I continue to share free printable vocabulary resources designed especially for children learning English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL).

These vocabulary materials are all created by me and tested with young learners to make sure they are both engaging and effective. Each printable is crafted with care to help kids build a strong English vocabulary through visual charts and fun activities.

Today, I’m happy to share a brand-new vocabulary project dedicated to the fruits and vegetables topic! It includes colorful vocabulary charts and matching worksheets to help kids memorize 72 words related to fruits, vegetables, berries, nuts, and more.

Transport Vocabulary Charts and Matching Worksheets for ESL & EFL Learners (Free PDF)

Looking for a fun and visual way to teach transport vocabulary in English? You're in the right place! In this post, I'm excited to share a brand-new printable resource designed especially for young English learners. This free download includes three colorful vocabulary charts and three types of word-to-picture matching worksheets to help children learn and remember the names of 72 different means of transport.

Reading Comprehension about Dancing Seagull (Free PDF)

Are you looking for fun and engaging reading comprehension worksheets for ESL and EFL learners? If so, you’ll love this free printable reading comprehension activity featuring a charming story about Freddie, a mischievous seagull who discovers a better way to win people’s hearts.

Sports Worksheets

I am delighted to share a collection of free printable worksheets tailored for students with B1-B2 levels of English proficiency, focusing on the theme "Sports and Activities." Within these materials, you will discover diverse tasks designed to enhance vocabulary and grammar skills related to sports, as well as reading and speaking proficiency.

Reading Comprehension for Preschoolers (Free PDF)

Hey fellow English teachers! I've designed a set of printable reading comprehension worksheets for preschoolers and early school students. These worksheets are available for free, and you can easily download them as PDF files through the provided links below. I hope these printables will help you make English classes even more enjoyable and effective for kids.

This collection includes three short reading comprehension passages, accompanied by tasks that incorporate plenty of pictures. Each passage is designed to be easily readable for young learners, allowing them to develop their reading skills while engaging with the content.

Veterans Day Reading Comprehension (Free PDF)

I dedicate at least one lesson to every major American holiday. Even though my students learn English as a foreign language, I believe it is important for students to know more about the culture of the English-speaking countries. And since I focus mostly on American English, the United States’ holidays and celebrations represent a special interest for me as sources of teaching materials. When learning about American holidays, an English learner can pick up vocabulary from all areas of human life. According to my classroom calendar, the next major national holiday in the United States is Veterans Day. And I have some relevant reading comprehension materials to share with my fellow EFL and ESL teachers.

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Reading for Kindergarten and Elementary Students (Free PDF)

Here is one of my reading comprehension sets for kindergarten and elementary school students that I’d like to share with my fellow EFL and ESL teachers. This is a short and easy-to-read story about an ant who loves apples and friendly bats living in an apple tree. This reading comprehension passage goes with a few worksheets including those that I use to help kids learn demonstrative pronouns this / that, these / those.

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Alphabet Learning Worksheets (Free PDF)

I have recently created another bunch of printable worksheets that offer elementary school students some fun activities to better memorize the English alphabet as well as learn basic vocabulary. These worksheets are good for non-native speaking kids who finished learning all the ABC letters as well as relevant words starting with these letters and they now need to strengthen this knowledge through activities. Using these printables, I'll ask my young students to circle pictures that start with this or another letter and help a mouse reach a piece of cheese through a letter maze moving from one letter to another in the alphabetical order. I'd like to share these worksheets with my fellow teachers from all over the world. You can find the links below to download them for free in printer-friendly PDF files. I hope my worksheets will help you organize fun English classes.

Find and circle pictures that start with the letter A.

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Word Families Worksheets: Am Words (Free PDF)

I keep on publishing printable worksheets that I designed for introducing word families to elementary students and thus helping them learn and memorize their first English words. This time the worksheets feature the -am words family. You are welcome to download the free PDF file and check out other worksheets from this series currently available on my blog (-at word family worksheets).

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Word Families Worksheets: At Words (Free PDF)

I’ve recently started to design printable word families worksheets for my English teaching practice. Looking at 154 word family flashcards I created last year, I understand that it’s going to be a really long work. It’s hard to even predict how much time it will take to design worksheets for all the word families featured in the flashcards. So I decided to publish the worksheets as soon as I design them and give them away to my fellow teachers for free. So you are welcome to download a free PDF file in this and all my future blog posts dedicated to this series of printable word families worksheets and activities. My first post features the at word family worksheets. They are good for learning simple short a words in elementary school and even kindergarten. I hope these child-appealing printables will prove to be useful for your English lessons.

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School Vocabulary Worksheets (Free PDF)

The upcoming school year is getting closer and I have designed a set of printable worksheets that I’m going to use for my English classes to help my students memorize some useful words related to school such as classroom objects, school supplies and school subjects. The worksheets offer kids some simple exercises that make them learn the new vocabulary fast, easily remember the words and their spelling. I’d like to share these printable worksheets with my fellow EFL and ESL teachers who struggle finding time to create their own worksheets. Hopefully, my worksheets will do for you.

Word to Picture Matching Worksheets (download free PDF)

My set of school vocabulary printables has worksheets featuring school supplies.

Sight Words Worksheets

I have designed a bunch of printable sight words worksheets and activities to help kindergarten kids and elementary students build their first English vocabulary and acquire basic reading skills. There are more than 80 printable worksheets, more than 500 flash cards and a small reading comprehension kit in my sight words arsenal based on Dolch words. I’d like to share some of these printables with my fellow EFL and ESL teachers.

Letter R Worksheets, Flash Cards, Coloring Pages

If you are looking for printable resources that would help you introduce the English letter R to your preschool and elementary school students, you should consider my EFL/ESL printables designed to teach the English alphabet to kids. I’d like to share my worksheets, flashcards, coloring pages that I use to teach the letter R to my young students. I hope my fellow teachers will find these printables useful for their English classes too.

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Telling Time on Clock - Rhyme-Based Worksheets

I designed a dozen printable worksheets based on my nursery rhyme that I had written to teach my young student to tell the time on a clock in English. The worksheets are colorful and child-appealing. They offer a super easy activity for kids who begin learning English and telling time.

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Every worksheet has two text-and-picture parts featuring a four-liner of the nursery rhyme and a clock image part that should be cut out. The clock shows the time from one o'clock to midnight. The teacher asks kids to match a clock part with the correct text-and-picture part. The clock only shows the whole hours without minutes, so the worksheets can be used as one of basic activities at the start of learning time.

My time telling worksheets have the cut-out part.

Letter J Worksheets, Flash Cards, Coloring Pages

This post aggregates some printable worksheets, flashcards and coloring pages designed by me to teach letter J to young English learners. I have published these prinables in multiple articles on my blog, and this post serves as a guide for my fellow EFL and ESL teachers looking for resources dedicated to the English alphabet and phonics.

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Animal Babies Worksheets

Following my recent blog post about flashcards featuring animals and their babies, I’d like to share a few worksheets that I use for my English classes on the topic of animals. The worksheets help test how well students have memorized some English names of young animals. I hope my fellow EFL and ESL teachers will find these animal babies worksheets useful too.

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Reading Comprehension Worksheets: Thomas the Cat

I begin publishing some of my printable reading comprehension worksheets dedicated to animals. I’d like to start with a comprehension passage about a black cat named Tom. The passage goes like this:

Tom is a black cat. He lives in a house. He drinks milk and eats cat food. His master gives him fish sometimes. After each meal he licks himself to clean his fur. Tom is a little cat, and his master calls him kitten. Tom loves to play with a ball of yarn. He pretends to see a rat, he runs to catch it. He meows when he is hungry and purrs when he feels happy. Tom is a happy cat and he purrs a lot.

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Letter G Worksheets, Flash Cards, Coloring Pages

This blog post collects all the best printable resources dedicated to the letter G that have been published on this blog in multiple articles. Hopefully, the posts like this one will help my fellow English teachers browse around the blog and easily find the right teaching materials for their classes.

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Halloween Word Search Worksheets

Word search worksheets help students better memorize the vocabulary they learn as well as spelling of the words. I have designed a couple of word search worksheets to make a part of my printable Halloween kit. I’d like to share these Halloween word search puzzles with my fellow EFL and ESL teachers. I hope they will enjoy using my worksheets for their English classes as much as I do.

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If you like these word search puzzles, you should also check out other printables of the Halloween kit such as word to picture and picture to word matching worksheets, crosswords, flashcards, bingo game and dominoes.