Year 1Vowel teams
ue words
The letters u and e can work together to make the /oo/ sound.
The letters u and e can work together to make the long /u/ sound.
ue/ōō/ as in gluey
Words with ue
Tap a word to see its sounds and hear it.
ue in the middle
ue at the end
Read ue in a sentence.
Every sentence is checked against the sound.
- 1The glue is blue.
- 2The statue has value.
- 3The clue is true.
- 4Tuesday is barbecue day.
How to teach ue
- Introduce the vowel digraph. Explain that a vowel digraph is two vowels that work together to make one sound.
- Model saying the target phoneme three times.
- Students repeat.
- Check articulation and correct mouth placement.
- Identify the phoneme in the example words.
- Explain the spelling generalisation: We usually use oo to spell the long /oo/ phoneme in the middle of words (e.g. moon, food, spoon). At the end of words, we often use ue (e.g. blue, glue, true) or ew (e.g. flew, grew, threw).
- Explain that the vowel digraph ue can also represent the long /u/ phoneme (e.g. rescue, statue, value, continue)
- Introduce the vowel digraph. Explain that a vowel digraph is two vowels that work together to make one sound.
- Model saying the target phoneme three times.
- Students repeat.
- Check articulation and correct mouth placement.
- Identify the phoneme in the example words.
- Explain the spelling generalisation: We often use ue to spell the long /u/ phoneme at the end of words (e.g. rescue, statue, value). In the middle of words, we usually use u_e instead (e.g. cube, mule, tube).
- Explain that the vowel digraph ue can also represent the long /oo/ phoneme (e.g. blue, clue, glue, true).
Decodable stories with ue.
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Make a whole ue lesson.
Slides, words and sentences, matched to the sounds your class has learned.