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.