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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Commonly Misused Words: How Their Effects Affect You

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on commonly misused words with a variety of media. It offers a YouTube video, "Using the Correct Words;" an infographic which lists 8 commonly misused word sets in comic format; a slide show with tips for the...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Commonly Misused Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on commonly misused words such as homophones and homonyms; it provides a video and two slideshows. The YouTube video shows humorous misrepresentatations of words. The first of the two slideshows defines terms and...
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Berkeley County Schools: 2nd and 3rd Grade Writing Folder

For Students K - 1st Standards
This writing packet includes all final product tasks and writing process resources for all 2nd and 3rd grade students. Lists of transition words, homophones, parts of speech, and more are included.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Learn Your Homophones: Pear, Pair, and Pare

For Students 3rd - 5th
Explore the difference between pear, pair, and pare in this blog post from Grammarly.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Analogies

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches about antonyms, synonyms, and homophones and follows up with several pages of opportunities to use Activotes to check for understanding.
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Other

English for Students: What Is the Difference Between Dew and Due?

For Students 4th
Read the definitions and examples of commonly confused homophones "dew" and "due."
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Ambleside Church of England Primary School

Easily Confused Words Quiz

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Homophones can easily be confused. Test your spelling and reading skills with this quiz.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Accept/except Spelling Exercise

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice in applying the use of accept and except. L.11-12.2b Spelling
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University of California

Can the English Language Survive?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Due to the "reliance on electronic media, rampant proliferation of homophonous misuses of the English language" has taken place. Test your knowledge on this quiz of homophones.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Spelling

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Generate worksheets that help students practice spelling with tricky vowels and letters, as well as, homophones, compound words and more. Several activities include assessments at the end.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Penguin Tale or Tail?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This interdisciplinary approach to science, language arts and technology will guide students into a study of real information about penguins and their habitat. They will learn to identify homophones and share what they learn using...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Choosing Between Its and It's

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is one of the most common slip-ups you can make in English! Let's give it a shot.
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Better English Lessons

Pearson and Caroline Brown: Better English Lessons: There There

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Twenty sentences where students are asked to fill in the blanks by clicking on the correct homophone: there, their, or they're. Immediate feedback is given on the answers to each question, and a percentage score for the exercise is tallied.
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Other

Rhyme Zone Rhyme Finder

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Enter a word and get a list of rhyming words, synonyms, antonyms, definitions, homophones and related words. Also available on this page, the texts of Shakespeare's plays, quotes by notable authors, games and quizzes, texts of famous...
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Quia

Quia: Homonyms Homophone To, Too, Two

For Students 9th - 10th
Fantastic vocabulary practice for Spanish 3 students who use the textbook "Ven Conmigo".Access pertinent sites from the list by clicking on the appropriate link preceded by the letters VC (indicating "Ven Conmigo"). Flashcards, word...
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Other

Ginger: Spelling Book: Confusing Words: Bi, Buy, By, Bye

For Students 4th Standards
Definitions and examples of the commonly confused homophones bi, buy, by, and bye.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Synonyms and Antonyms

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] The student will recognize and apply the appropriate usage of homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based on,"The Dog Who Saved Nome".. Its objectives contain word relationships, homophones, antonyms, synonyms, fact and opinion, common and proper nouns, and problem/solution.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to use with the story, Flight, by Robert Burleigh, in the Scott Foresman Reading Series for third grade. Students will preview and predict what the story will be about. The...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Guided Reading

For Teachers 1st - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a guided reading flipchart for third grade. It provides the schedule and the activities for the class. All activities are grouped and self led by the students. The activities are on homophones.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 3rd Grade

For Teachers 3rd Standards
This article focuses on teaching 3rd grade spelling including Dolch sight words for 3rd grade and the weird spelling patterns that 3rd graders face such as the letter Y, diphthongs, double consonants, and homophones.
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Quia

Quia: A Feast of Homonym Games

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Choose to play matching, concentration, flash cards, or word search games to practice your homophones in this interactive Quia site.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Spelling

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
In this lesson, you'll be reminded why spelling is important; a three-step strategy to follow when you edit your written work or the work of your peers; when to rely on the spell-checker and when to override it with your own good...
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: 33 Commonly Misunderstood Words & Phrases (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This infographic provides a list of words and phrases that are commonly misused in formal writing. Students will see different homonyms that are misused and find ways to discover them.

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