Short E word family

-ed Words

Words that end in -ed

Learn to read common -ed words by keeping the ending the same and changing the first sound.

What are -ed words?

Words in the -ed family share the same ending sound. Once a child can read bed, it becomes easier to read fed, led, and red.

1Read the ending-ed

2Add a first soundb + ed

3Read the wordbed

Word list

bed/bɛd/

The bed is soft.

fed/fɛd/

Dad fed the pet.

led/lɛd/

The hen led us.

red/rɛd/

The pen is red.

wed/wɛd/

They wed.

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