Stargazing Sort

Worksheet Description

Students decide whether the final silent e should stay or disappear before a suffix is added. The first section includes endings that begin with both vowels and consonants, so students must mark each word as keep or drop and then write the completed form. In the second section, they sort finished words beneath the correct rule heading. The stargazing theme frames the task as organizing words before a night of observing the sky.

This worksheet helps students understand the difference between dropping the e before endings like -ing and keeping it before many endings such as -ful or -less. Sorting the finished words makes the two patterns easy to compare. Students also learn to look at the suffix before changing the base word. This builds rule awareness, spelling judgment, classification skills, and proofreading ability.

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