Homophones, or homonyms, are words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings. For example, “toad” and “towed” are homophones. When it comes to student writing, they need to be able to distinguish the difference in meaning and choose the correct spelling of the word. If they don’t, their writing won’t make sense!
Homophone Pairs
Meet/meat Ad/add Eight/ate Blew/blue Toad/towed
Wait/weight Be/bee By/buy/bye Hour/our Know
There/their/they’re To/too/two Your/you’re Rose/rows
Here/hear One/won Bale/bail Board/bored Byte/bite
Bread/bred Break/brake Seller/cellar Censor/sensor
Chilly/chile Crews/cruise Days/daze Dear/deer Die/dye
Eye/I Find/fined Gate/gait Hay/hey Him/hymn Hole/whole
Lie/lye Made/maid Male/mail Passed/past Piece/peace Peer/pier
Pray/prey Read/reed See/sea Sun/son Would/wood
Exercise 1
Directions: For each word in Column A there is a homonym in Column B. Write the number of its homonym next to each word in Column A.
A B
wait __________ 1. sighted
ceiling __________ 2. whether
piece __________ 3. weight
side __________ 4. choose
threw __________ 5. sealing
vein __________ 6. eight
weather __________ 7. peace
no __________ 8. heard
chews __________ 9. break
brake __________ 10. pear
are __________ 11. through
herd __________ 12. know
hire __________ 13. vein
pair __________ 14. higher
bare __________ 15. bear
Exercise 2
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the right word (their, there, they're)
1. __________ Two chums were running fast.
2. __________ looking for the lost dog.
3. __________ are two houses for sale.
4. __________ planning to go sailing.
5. What did you see over __________?
6. They wanted to visit __________ aunt.
7. __________ late everyday.
8. Is your back at __________ house?
9. __________ were five coats in the closet.
10. __________ going to __________ friend's house.
Exercise 3
Directions: Circle the correct homonyms in the following sentences.
1. We had lunch over at (there / their / they're) house.
2. Her little sister was just (to / too / two) slow on a bike.
3. The new jet streaked (threw / through) the clouds.
4. "You don't have the (right / write) to say that!" shouted the man.
5. I (no / know) what you want, and the answer is (no / know).
6. (there / their / they're) grandmother live over (there / their / they're).
7. Is it much (to / too / two) early to know whether she won (to / too / two) prizes.
8. (there / their / they're) not very interested in dating.
9. The (to / too / two) of them had (to / too / two) much to eat and went (to / too / two) bed.
10. It's not sensible (to / too / two) drink (to / too / two) much.
Reference
English, Communication Arts I (Conversational Approach) pp. 109-113
http://www.k12reader.com/fun-activities-for teaching-homophones/
http:// eps.schoolspeciality.com/external/read_write_think/practicing_homophones.pdf
http://www.k12reader.com/fun-activities-for teaching-homophones/
http:// eps.schoolspeciality.com/external/read_write_think/practicing_homophones.pdf
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