Words Ending in GE / DGE – 15 Differentiated Sheets

Students read and recognize thirty words ending in the -ge or -dge spelling pattern for the /dʒ/ sound.

Students generalize the spelling-sound correspondence between -ge and -dge endings across words such as cage and badge.

Students distinguish -ge and -dge spellings in similarly-sounding words using a shared practice vocabulary.

Introduce the shared word bank (bridge, judge, cage, badge, change, dredge, and more) before assigning individual sheets, since it recurs throughout the set and gives students the target vocabulary up front.

Preview each worksheet before handing it out, since the sheets use varied graphic layouts rather than uniform plain text, so the difficulty of a given page is easiest to judge by eye.

Digraph/spelling-pattern recognition — students identify the -ge and -dge endings across thirty practice words.

Sound-spelling correspondence — students connect one /dʒ/ sound to two different letter patterns (cage vs. badge) using the shared word bank.

Repeated-exposure vocabulary practice — the same 30-word list recurs across multiple worksheet pages, reinforcing spelling recall.