KS1 Spelling | The Sound EE Quiz for Year 1 Children

Spelling Quiz - Year 1 - The Sound ee (Questions)

This 'Sound ee' spelling quiz introduces KS1 children to words spelt with double ‘e’. The words have been carefully selected from those suggested in the National Curriculum. It would be beneficial for Year 1 children to learn the spellings used in this test.

The letters ‘ee’ make a long vowel sound, like in the word ‘see’. You are saying the E’s alphabet name (when you say the alphabet you pronounce E as ‘ee’). Here are some spellings with this sound.

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Spell the missing word: She doesn't ____ very well.

[ ]	fele
[ ]	feal
[ ]	feel
[ ]	fiel

Spell the missing words: I ____ a ____.

[ ]	c and b
[ ]	sea and bee
[ ]	see and bee
[ ]	see and be

Spell the missing words: ____ ____ to help!

[ ]	Feel and free
[ ]	Feell and fwee
[ ]	Feell and free
[ ]	Feel and frea

Spell the missing words: ____ the apple before you ____ the goat.

[ ]	Peal and fead
[ ]	Peel and fead
[ ]	Pele and feed
[ ]	Peel and feed

Spell the missing words: The ____ is a beautiful ____ colour.

[ ]	twee and gween
[ ]	twee and green
[ ]	tree and green
[ ]	tree and geen

Spell the missing words: I will ____ you next ____.

[ ]	meat and weak
[ ]	meet and week
[ ]	meet and weec
[ ]	met and week

Spell the missing word: This is a ____.

[ ]	cheep
[ ]	sheep
[ ]	sheepe
[ ]	shepe

Spell the missing word: Give me the broom, I will ____.

[ ]	sreep
[ ]	sweeq
[ ]	sweep
[ ]	swreep

Spell the missing word: Have you ____ to Florida?

[ ]	been
[ ]	bean
[ ]	bene
[ ]	bien

10.

Spell the missing word: Please hang the bed ____.

[ ]	sheest
[ ]	sheets
[ ]	scheets
[ ]	shets

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Spelling Quiz - Year 1 - The Sound ee (Answers)

Spell the missing word: She doesn't ____ very well.

[ ]	fele
[ ]	feal
[x]	feel
[ ]	fiel

These are all possible ways to make the 'ee' sound.

Spell the missing words: I ____ a ____.

[ ]	c and b
[ ]	sea and bee
[x]	see and bee
[ ]	see and be

For every colony there is one queen bee and more than 20,000 worker bees.

Spell the missing words: ____ ____ to help!

[x]	Feel and free
[ ]	Feell and fwee
[ ]	Feell and free
[ ]	Feel and frea

You know the dust you sometimes see on your shelves? Well most of that dust comes from your skin! Yuck!

Spell the missing words: ____ the apple before you ____ the goat.

[ ]	Peal and fead
[ ]	Peel and fead
[ ]	Pele and feed
[x]	Peel and feed

The sound goats make is called bleating.

Spell the missing words: The ____ is a beautiful ____ colour.

[ ]	twee and gween
[ ]	twee and green
[x]	tree and green
[ ]	tree and geen

There are more than 23,000 types of tree in the world!

Spell the missing words: I will ____ you next ____.

[ ]	meat and weak
[x]	meet and week
[ ]	meet and weec
[ ]	met and week

Both these words could be spelt with 'ea' but it would change the meaning: meat is something you eat and weak means not very strong.

Spell the missing word: This is a ____.

[ ]	cheep
[x]	sheep
[ ]	sheepe
[ ]	shepe

Did you know, there are 40 different types of sheep!

Spell the missing word: Give me the broom, I will ____.

[ ]	sreep
[ ]	sweeq
[x]	sweep
[ ]	swreep

In the olden days people used to gather branches together to make a broom.

Spell the missing word: Have you ____ to Florida?

[x]	been
[ ]	bean
[ ]	bene
[ ]	bien

They call Florida the sunshine state because it's always sunny there.

10.

Spell the missing word: Please hang the bed ____.

[ ]	sheest
[x]	sheets
[ ]	scheets
[ ]	shets

You spend around one third of your life in bed, so make sure you do have clean sheets!