Wilderness Match

Worksheet Description

Students explore a wilderness-themed matching activity with twenty-five changed words. They match each completed word to its original base word and write the correct letter beside it. The list includes forms ending in -ing, -ed, -er, and -est, with many words that lose a final silent e. Students finish by selecting five matched pairs and writing each base word beside its changed form.

This worksheet helps students work backward from a changed word to the root it came from. That makes them pay close attention to how the final e disappears when certain suffixes are added. Matching many examples also helps them see that the same rule works across actions, comparisons, and other word forms. The activity improves word-family knowledge, spelling memory, careful comparison, and confidence applying suffix rules.

This worksheet is part of our drop the e spelling worksheet series.