Airport Match

Worksheet Description

Students match twenty words ending in -er with the base words they came from. The list includes common job and action words such as runner, teacher, builder, reader, and explorer. After matching, students explain the spelling change used to create selected forms. The airport theme presents the activity as organizing separated labels before departure.

This worksheet helps students connect a changed word with its original root. Seeing both forms together makes it easier to understand when to simply add -er, drop a final e, or double the last consonant. Explaining the spelling change also moves students beyond guessing and asks them to think about the rule. This builds word-family knowledge, spelling accuracy, grammar awareness, and independent reasoning.

This worksheet is part of our words ending in er worksheet series.