Each sentence has a word missing and the two spellings it could be printed beside it. Only one of them fits the sentence, and the sentence is the only thing that can decide it.
Write the word from the pair that belongs in the sentence.
1.We swam in the . (see / sea)
2.Please your name at the top. (write / right)
3.I the answer already. (new / knew)
4.A big brown ate the fish. (bear / bare)
5.She a birthday cake. (made / maid)
6.Our team the match. (one / won)
7.Can you the bell? (hear / here)
8.I have hands. (to / two)
9.Which is the park? (weigh / way)
10.The chair is made of . (would / wood)
11.The came out at last. (sun / son)
12.The rode a gray horse. (knight / night)
Homophones
NameDate/ 12
Write the word from the pair that belongs in the sentence.
1.We swam in the sea. (see / sea)
2.Please write your name at the top. (write / right)
3.I knew the answer already. (new / knew)
4.A big brown bear ate the fish. (bear / bare)
5.She made a birthday cake. (made / maid)
6.Our team won the match. (one / won)
7.Can you hear the bell? (hear / here)
8.I have two hands. (to / two)
9.Which way is the park? (weigh / way)
10.The chair is made of wood. (would / wood)
11.The sun came out at last. (sun / son)
12.The knight rode a gray horse. (knight / night)
What is on this sheet
A homophone cannot be spelled from its sound, which is what makes this the one word exercise that has to be a sentence. “Their” and “there” are one noise, so a child asked to spell that noise cannot be wrong — there is no answer to the question. Put the noise in “put the box over ___” and there is exactly one right answer, and it is decided by meaning rather than by phonics.
These are the mistakes that survive into adult writing, which is a fair argument for meeting them early and often. Their/there, to/too/two, your/you’re and its/it’s are misspelled by people who spell everything else correctly, because the ear cannot help and the eye was never trained. Both spellings are printed beside every sentence so that the choice is on the page — the exercise is choosing, not remembering that a choice exists.
The answers were decided when the sheet was built, so the key is the same page with them drawn in rather than a second attempt at the same questions — there is no way for the two to disagree. The number in the footer is the seed the sheet was built from: it is printed so that the identical sheet can be had again next week, rather than one that merely looks like it.
Change what is on it
This page is one sheet out of a family that can print thousands. The topic is a setting rather than a different worksheet: ten of them — rhyme, syllables, word families, prefixes and suffixes, plurals, contractions, homophones, synonyms and antonyms — and each is asked in whichever of the three shapes suits it, written on a ruled line, circled from four, or joined up in two columns. How many questions and how many columns are switches beside them.
The settings travel in the link rather than on a server, so a sheet you make can be bookmarked or sent to another family as it stands — and the Name: line is printed blank, because there is nowhere in a shared link to put a child’s name. See what we don’t collect.
Word Jungle deals the sight-word lists as flash cards: the word is read aloud, in a sentence, and typed back — which is the half of spelling a worksheet cannot do, because paper cannot say a word out loud. A child who has just worked through a page is the one likeliest to race it, and the record book then knows which words they keep missing, so the next sheet can be exactly those.
