Y6 homophones and near-homophones
Spell and distinguish homophones: aisle/isle, aloud/allowed, affect/effect, altar/alter, ascent/assent, bridal/bridle, cereal/serial, stationary/stationery, principal/principle
What you'll learn
- 1
Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings. Like 'pair' (two things) and 'pear' (a fruit you eat)!
- 2
Which word means two things that go together?
- 3
Drag the correct word into the sentence: 'I ate a juicy ___ for lunch.'
- 4
Let's do one together: 'There' vs 'their' vs 'they're'.
- 5
Which word fits: '___ going to the cinema tonight.'
- 6
Complete the sentence with the right homophone: 'The wind blew the leaves over ___.'
- 7
Which word means 'belonging to them'?
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