Spell Simple Homophones

In this activity, we're going to to be looking at common homophones and how to spell them.

 

Homophones are words that sound the same, but mean different things and are spelt differently.

 

For example bear and bare.  

 

Read those two words out loud - did you notice that they sound exactly the same?  

They have completely different meanings though.

Let's look at each of them in a sentence:

 

The bear was prowling through the forest.

 

 

On hot days I like to take off my socks and have bare feet.

 

 

In this activity, we are going to practise spelling two pairs of homophones:

here and hear

plane and plain

 

Let's look at these in a sentence so we can understand their different meanings:

 

Come and play over here!

 

 

Here is a location.

 

Can you hear the music?

 

 

Hear is a verb meaning to sense sounds though an ear.

This one is easy to remember because the word 'hear' contains the word 'ear'!

 

Are you travelling by boat or by plane?

 

 

A plane is a vehicle that travels through the air.

 

Please wear a plain white T-shirt to school.

 

 

Plain means without added decoration.

 

or 

 

The buffalo grazed peacefully on the plain.

 

 

Here, plain means a large area of flat land with few trees.

 

Ok, let's practise using these words now in the following questions.