Homophones worksheets
Third graders handle the homophone pairs that sneak into everyday writing: piece and peace, plain and plane, board and bored. Each sentence forces one spelling, and each pair shows up in both directions across prints, so neither twin is ever the automatic answer.
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What students need to know
Homophones are words that sound exactly alike but are spelled differently and mean different things: sea and see, bear and bare. The sentence tells you which one belongs.
This skill runs from 2nd grade through 4th grade. Pick a grade above for level-matched sentences, teaching notes, and worksheets.
Homophones across the grades
2nd grade
Homophones are sound-twins: word pairs like sun and son or meet and meat that the ear can't tell apart. Second graders pick the right spelling from a sentence's meaning, which is the first time spelling becomes a thinking job instead of a memory job.
3rd grade
Third graders handle the homophone pairs that sneak into everyday writing: piece and peace, plain and plane, board and bored. Each sentence forces one spelling, and each pair shows up in both directions across prints, so neither twin is ever the automatic answer.
4th grade
By fourth grade the pairs get subtler (peak and peek, vein and vain, coarse and course) and the cost of mixing them up moves into real writing. This sheet is a fast way to find which pairs still wobble; the grammar set (their/there, your/you're) lives on our commonly confused words worksheets.
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