What’s on the Long E poster
One large E, with the detail around it.
E says its name: E
- HOW IT HAPPENS
- tree, eat — two vowels together, the first one talks.
- READ THESE
- tree · eat · he
- seed · team · key
- SHORT OR LONG?
- bed is short. tree is long. Same letter, two jobs.
If the vowel says its own name, it is long. That is the entire test.
Questions about the Long E poster
- What’s on the Long E poster?
- One large E, with the detail around it. E says its name: E. HOW IT HAPPENS; tree, eat — two vowels together, the first one talks.; READ THESE; tree · eat · he; seed · team · key; SHORT OR LONG?; bed is short. tree is long. Same letter, two jobs.. If the vowel says its own name, it is long. That is the entire test.
- Who is the Long E poster for?
- Long E is filed under 1st Grade (ages 6–7), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting literacy, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Long E poster?
- Read the pairs aloud: the short word, then the long one. The difference is the lesson. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Long E belongs on the wall where that literacy work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Long E?
- Long A, Long I and Long O sit alongside Long E in the 1st Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Long ALong ILong O
- Is the Long E poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Long E downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 1st Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Long E poster print at?
- Long E is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Long E loses nothing.Printing guide
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