Spelling homophones and near-homophones
I can spell common homophones and understand their meaning.
Spelling homophones and near-homophones
I can spell common homophones and understand their meaning.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Two or more words that sound the same but have different meanings or spellings are called homophones.
- 'There', 'their' and 'they're' are homophones.
- 'To', 'too' and 'two' are homophones.
- 'Won' and 'one' are homophones.
- 'Our', 'hour' and 'are' are homophones.
Common misconception
Many of these words are high frequency and common exception words.
Be explicit about the difficulties in spelling these words and give time to practise spelling these common exception words.
Keywords
Homophone - words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings
Near-homophone - a word that sounds very similar to another word with a slightly different spelling and meaning
Contraction - two words pushed together
Licence
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
a letter or group of letters that represent a sound
the smallest unit of sound that can change a word's meaning
words that sound the same but have different meanings
Exit quiz
6 Questions
one
there
two
hour