Practise Spelling Tricky 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:

accept and except

scene and seen

 

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

 

I accept your apology.

 

 

Accept is a verb meaning to agree to take something or to believe something.

 

I like all creatures except spiders!

 

 

Except means not including.

 

I loved the chase scene in the film.

 

 

A scene is a small part of a film or play. 

It can also mean a place where a particular incident happened, or a view or picture of a place.

 

Have you seen my hat?

 

 

Seen is a verb, it is the past tense of see - meaning to sense with the eyes.

 

Use Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check to practise spellings a few times before we begin the activities.