Island Decisions

Worksheet Description

Students explore an island while deciding whether each silent e should be kept or dropped before adding a suffix. They write the completed forms for words paired with endings such as -ing, -ful, -er, -ly, -ed, -less, and -ness. A second section asks them to choose correctly spelled words inside sentences. The worksheet makes clear that the e is usually dropped before vowel-starting suffixes but often kept before consonant-starting ones.

This worksheet helps students learn that the rule depends on the suffix being added. Comparing endings that begin with vowels and consonants prevents them from dropping the e every time. The sentence choices also give practice recognizing correct forms in context. This builds deeper spelling knowledge, rule flexibility, word analysis, and editing confidence.

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