Watch: What are homophones?
Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. They also have different spellings like hear and here or see and sea.
Watch the short video below to find out more.
See how many homophones you can spot in this video.
Narrator: Looks like you're in a heap of trouble.
Oh, you asked for a flower, but he covered you in flour.
When two words sound the same but mean something different—like flower and flour—we call them homophones.
Shh! Listen.
Can you hear that?
Look who's here.
Oh, I thought I'd hidden that.
Hear and here are homophones too, just like bear and, um, bare.
Uh huh. Well, that got rid of him.
Right you guys, it's almost night time.
No, night time, not knight time!
Oh, I give up.
Watch: How to use homophones
Watch this short video to see more homophones and how they can be used in a story.
Homophones with Johnny and Inel.
Activity 1
Play the Homophones mini game on Small Town Superheroes. Use the yellow arrows to navigate to the 'Steve' section to find the 'Homophones' game.
If you can, open the game in a new tab. You can do this by right clicking on the window and selecting open link in new tab.
Activity 2
Homophones are everywhere!
Make a list of all the homophones you can think of.
If you're struggling to think of some, you could always look through some of your favourite books at home or school and see how many you can spot.
Here are some to start your list off:
- here - hear
- son - sun
- bass - base
Play our fun English game Crystal Explorers! game
Use grammar, punctuation and spelling skills to explore jungles, caves and tombs on your mission.
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