Match Meanings of Commonly Confused Words

Read the sound guides aloud before students write homograph sentences. Keep the meaning box in view for the look alike sheet, and review any pair students mix up.

Match 12 commonly confused pairs like affect and effect or stationary and stationery to meanings. Some words are easy to mix up because they look or sound almost the same, so check the meaning before you use one. The directions on the page read: Each pair of words looks or sounds alike. Read the two meanings beside each pair. Write A or B in the box next to each word to match it to its meaning. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade homophones and homographs, 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. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Stationery, with er, is writing paper and envelopes. Stationary, with ar, means not moving.

Each word gives a sound guide with its meaning, such as TEER for a drop from the eye and TAIR for to rip. Students write one sentence for each sound.

Counsel means advice, and a council is a group that decides things. In Eminent, Imminent and Other Look-Alikes, the city council votes on a skate park.