Story Fills

Strengthen phonics and reading comprehension with this vowel teams cloze passage worksheet. Students read a short story and fill in each blank using the correct word from a vowel-team word bank, encouraging them to combine context clues with knowledge of long vowel spelling patterns.

Key Learning Objectives

• Skill Focus: Applying vowel teams such as ai, ea, oa, ee, and ie within connected story text
• Critical Thinking Benefit: Develops sentence-level reasoning as students reread and evaluate meaning before choosing a word
• Curriculum Tie-In: Supports English Language Arts instruction in phonics, vocabulary recognition, and reading comprehension
• Application Type: Cloze-style passage completion that reinforces fluency and pattern awareness

Teacher & Parent Features

• Reinforces long vowel patterns through meaningful reading contexts
• Builds vocabulary connected to everyday experiences
• Supports fluency as students reread for accuracy and meaning
• Encourages careful attention to context and spelling
• Ideal for literacy centers, small groups, independent practice, or homework
• Suitable for classroom instruction, intervention, and homeschool learning

This printable vowel teams story fill worksheet helps students strengthen decoding accuracy, vocabulary knowledge, and comprehension by applying phonics skills directly within engaging passage-based activities.

This worksheet is part of our Vowel Teams (ai, ea, oa, ee, ie) Worksheets collection.