Words With Short E Sound. Words with only three letters are the easiest to make the short vowel sound out of, as you will see. Use this list to help your students develop fluency with the targeted speech sound.
Short "e" is the sound that the letter "e" makes in the words, "egg," "leg," and "wet." It is pronounced eh (as opposed to words like "meet," "tea," or "key," which contain long "e" sounds, pronounced ee). When reading a word that uses a short vowel sound, will say the sound that the letter can make that is not its actual name. Long O sound is OH as in bone.
Long O sound is OH as in bone.
The words are ten, pen, jet, web, nest, net, pencil, envelope, leg, vest.
Many times, however, those vowels have a different sound= a short vowel sound. Letter E is the second vowel of the alphabet, and it's phonics sound is /e/ - sounds like "EH". For beginning spellers, teach words with short I and short E in different lessons.