Homophones worksheet – Year 5 and 6 SPaG Challenge

This bright, appealing homophones worksheet is a great way to practise and revise the use of homophones at Upper Key Stage 2.

Homophones worksheet

There are three homophone 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 (lead/led, device/devise, steal/steel), students devise a sentence for each one in which the term is used correctly
• Test
  Students suggest suitable homophones for seven words (father, guessed, isle, cereal, mourning, passed, herd). They 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?’ For example: 'My father lives across the sea / How much farther could he possibly be?'.

What is a homophone?

Pairs or groups 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.

This resource is part of the SPaG Gym collection.
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