Montessori Green Series Long "U" Workbook
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Long U hides behind three very different spellings, and this printable PDF workbook helps children ages 5 to 7 read, spell, and write all of them with confidence as part of the Montessori Green Series phonogram sequence. The work isolates u_e as in cube, ue as in glue, and ew as in stew, one pattern at a time, so the child builds a rule they can actually explain rather than a set of words they have simply memorized.
This is the fifth and final long vowel in the series, which makes it the workbook that closes the long vowel sequence for your reader.
📦 What Is Included
- 29 pages total: 25 student activity pages, a full color phonogram reference chart, and 3 adult guide pages
- 26 long U words: cube, prune, tube, mule, flute, cute, June, tune, rule, glue, blue, clue, tissue, due, hue, cue, value, screw, stew, dew, flew, new, few, drew, brew, and grew
- Eleven activity formats: picture to word matching, tracing and handwriting practice, circle the correct word, circle the correct picture, scrambled words, rhyming pairs, sorting by phonogram, phonogram identification, missing phonogram fill ins, and independent picture naming
- User Guide: presentation order, pacing advice, a memory rule for teaching the three patterns, and solutions for the three most common sticking points
- Signs of Mastery checklist: four observable markers that tell you the child is ready to move on
✏️ Learning Benefits
- Strengthens decoding of vowel teams and split digraphs, the point where most early readers stall
- Builds spelling accuracy by asking the child to choose between three plausible patterns rather than copy a given word
- Develops handwriting control through repeated tracing of the target phonogram in red
- Supports auditory discrimination with rhyming and sorting work
- Encourages independent reasoning, since the child must explain why cube takes u_e while glue takes ue
🌿 How to Use
- Present the phonogram chart first and show the pattern in isolation before reading whole words
- Offer one pattern at a time, working through every u_e activity before introducing ue, then ew
- Give 1 to 2 pages per session for younger children and 3 to 4 for older or quicker readers
- Move from picture matching toward scrambles and fill-ins as the child gains fluency
- Print single pages onto the tray as shelf work, or laminate the chart for repeated reference
- Pair the writing pages with the moveable alphabet if the child reads well but resists pencil work
🎓 Teaching Tip from a Montessori Guide
Give the child one sentence to hold onto: u_e sits inside a word with a silent e at the end, while ue and ew like to sit at the end. Cube and tube take u_e. Glue and stew take ue or ew. When a child can say that rule back to you unprompted, they have moved from recognition into genuine understanding, and that is the moment to hand them the Signs of Mastery checklist and move on.
🔗 Pair This With
- Montessori Green Series Long "O" Workbook for the vowel most children meet just before long U
- Montessori Green Series 3 Part Cards to introduce phonogram vocabulary through the three period lesson before workbook practice begins
- Montessori Green Series Tracing Cards for extra handwriting repetition without adding another workbook
- Montessori Green Series Word Lists for Phonograms to pull dictation words and build your own reading booklets
