These bright, appealing PDF grammar worksheets are a great help for practising and revising the use of homophones at Upper Key Stage 2.
There are three worksheets in total, covering the following five sections – ‘understand’, ‘challenge’, ‘test’, ‘explain’ and ‘apply’.
- Understand
Students complete a series of five sentences by choosing between two homophones, and then identify misspellings in a further four sentences
- Challenge
Prompted by six different homophones, students devise a sentence for each one in which the term is used correctly
- Test
Students suggest suitable homophones for seven words, and complete three partial sentences with an appropriate homophone
- Explain
Students explain the different meanings of a homophone pair of their own choosing, before proceeding to explain the different meanings of ‘complimented’ and ‘complemented’.
- Apply
‘Can you write a poem which includes 3 pairs of homophones and shows what they mean?’
What is a homophone?
Pairs or groupings of words that share the same pronunciation but have different meanings and/or spellings.
- ascent / assent
- allowed / aloud
- steal / steel
- sighed / side
- maid / made
- dear / deer
National Curriculum English programme of study links
Pupils should be taught to continue to distinguish between homophones and other words which are often confused.