Homophones Worksheets

About this resource

Their or there? Its or it's? Ten of the homophone pairs a K-2 writer mixes up most, practiced five different

ways — from circling a printed choice to matching a meaning clue — so a child meets the same ten pairs again

and again until the choice gets automatic. Every student answer is circled or written in pencil, so no

student page needs scissors or glue.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (29 pages)

• 10 student pages in 5 formats — two sets of five pairs (A, B) in each format, so a child never sees the

same sentence twice in one format

• 10 homophone pairs: their/there, your/you're, its/it's, to/too, new/knew, write/right, eight/ate, sea/see,

wood/would, hear/here — the same ten this store's Homophones progress-monitoring probe measures

• 40 of the pair bank's 60 hand-checked sentences, one per pair per format, so no sentence repeats between

Circle the Word, Write the Word, Find the Mistake and Which One Is Right?

• 10 meaning clues in Match the Meaning, plus a Pair Key page listing all 20 (both words of every pair)
• 1 What Is a Homophone? page: the rule, worked through one real sentence
• 3 answer keys, generated from the same data as the pages
• 1 tracker (all 10 pairs, five formats), 1 class progress grid
• 1 team note page and 1 home page (a "write a sentence using each word" activity)
• 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (16 starters), 1 binder cover, and 6 divider tabs

with a spine label to cut out

• Start Here, a how-to-read-a-page page, a contents page that gives every page number, and a pair key

The Five Formats, Easiest To Hardest

1. Circle the Word (starting) — the sentence is printed with the pair shown as two word chips in place of

the blank; circle the one that fits.

2. Write the Word (starting) — the same shape sentence with a blank line and a two-word bank underneath;

write the answer.

3. Find the Mistake (building) — the sentence is printed with the WRONG word from the pair already sitting

in it; find it, write the correct word.

4. Which One Is Right? (building) — the same sentence written two ways, once correctly; circle A or circle

B, whichever one makes sense.

5. Match the Meaning (ready for more) — a short clue with no sentence at all; circle the word from the pair

it describes.

Which One Is Right? is balanced so the correct sentence sits in position A on five pairs and position B on

the other five — a child cannot learn to always circle the same letter. Match the Meaning asks about the

first word of a pair on five items and the second on the other five, for the same reason.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction with a picture, large rounded letters, big boxes with room to

write, and dots (not words) to show which level a page is. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult.

How This Is Different From The Homophones Probe

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the tracker, the class grid, the team note and the home page are type-in fields in

any PDF reader. The letters a student writes in the answer boxes are pencil work. This is a fillable PDF; it

is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Kindergarten, first and second grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any older student who

still mixes up these ten pairs. The home page sends the same job to a family; the team note hands off what

changed since the last meeting.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Homophone-choice practice with the record-keeping around it. It is not a probe, a goal bank or a score sheet,

not a reading or writing assessment, and not a claim about any student's age or rate of progress.