Submarine Spelling

Worksheet Description

Students dive through twelve ocean-themed sentences and choose the correctly spelled changed word from four options. The items include forms ending in -ing, -ed, -er, and -est, all built from words with a final silent e. Several answers contain believable errors, such as keeping the e, dropping the wrong letter, or doubling a consonant. Students use the sentence clue and spelling rule together to select the correct form.

This worksheet helps students recognize the kinds of mistakes writers often make when adding suffixes. Comparing several similar choices trains them to check every letter carefully. Sentence meaning also helps them decide which form belongs grammatically. This strengthens proofreading, test-taking skill, spelling memory, and confidence with word endings.

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