Spell the Right Homophone

Have your child read each finished sentence out loud with the long form (it is, you are) to check it. Keep the meaning chart for to, too and two on the desk while writing. Check with the answer key and talk through any mix-up.

Write the homophone that fits each sentence, like sea or see, and name homophone pairs. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings. Read the whole sentence to find the spelling that fits. The directions on the page read: Read the rule and the example. Then, do parts A and B. The page opens with a worked example, and the answer key shows every answer.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd Grade spelling, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with homophone spelling. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Homophones are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings, like to, too and two or sea and see. Spelling them right depends on the meaning in the sentence.

Read the sentence with it is in place of the word. If it is makes sense, write it's. If not, write its, which shows something belongs to it, as in the dog wagged its tail. The same test works for you're and your.

These pages are spelling practice: students write the correct word in a sentence. The vocabulary pages focus more on what each word means.

Yes. All four sheets have an answer key that shows every spelling, so a parent or teacher can check the work in a minute.

3rd graders spell long vowels and vowel teams (rain, team, boat), r-controlled vowels (star, fork, bird), common homophones, and words with endings, where the rules for dropping a silent e, doubling a consonant and changing y to i come in (CCSS L.3.2.E and L.3.2.F). Silent letters in words like knee and write round out the year.

Double the last consonant when a one-syllable word ends in one short vowel and one consonant: hop becomes hopping and sit becomes sitting. Words with two vowels or a final e do not double: rain becomes raining and hope becomes hoping. The adding endings pages practice all three rules.

Start with long vowels and vowel teams, since they are the most common patterns, then r-controlled vowels. Move to adding endings once those feel easy, and use the homophone and silent letter pages as review. Each subtopic on this page holds four sheets.