Word Endings -ge or -dge (Audio and Alt Text)
by Elly Smith Hellier/Living and Loving Primary © 2026
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Price: $2 USD
Subjects: ela,reading,foundationalSkills,phonics
Grades: 1
Description
Your students will apply phonics rules to identify either -ge or -dge as the ending of a word. Audio and alt text are provided. Your students will see a picture. Then they will see the letters at the beginning of the word for that picture, followed by a line for a blank. They will apply the rules for one - syllable words that end with a soft g sound to determine the letters needed for the ending. They will click on ge or dge. Directions are provided on the first slide. Practice using the rules is provided on slides 1 - 3. Those rules are: 1. When the word contains a long vowel or consonant before the soft g, the word will end with ge. 2. When the word contains a short vowel before the soft g, the word will end with dge. The words in the deck are... page, sponge, bridge, huge, badge, fudge, range, lodge, cage, age, judge, fridge, stage, smudge, luge, change, wedge, orange, dredge, edge, charge, ledge, ridge
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