Students match homophones by playing a bingo-type game.

Turn a grammatical challenge into an amusing word game with inspiration from Crayola Twistables Colored Pencils and Maya Angelou's book Angelina of Italy.

This GrammarCheck infographic provides tips for fixing common writing mistakes. Information on errors related to homophones, apostrophes, commas, participles, and sentence structure are included.

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...

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...

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.

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice in applying the use of accept and except. L.11-12.2b Spelling

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.

[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.

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...

This is one of the most common slip-ups you can make in English! Let's give it a shot.

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...

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...

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.

This homonym tutorial begins with the poem "My Spell Checker" to show the importance of learning the difference between words. This is followed by a slide show of commonly misused homonyms, including definitions and examples. It offers...

This site contains a list of commonly confused words with practice activities to help in learning how to use them correctly.

One of the elements of music is "Texture." This site gives the definition, which basically is the relationship between melodic and harmonic.

A nice treasure trove of printable grammar worksheets organized by proficiency level: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Emphasis is on parts of speech but you'll also find some that focus on common spelling issues and vocabulary...

Students practice recognizing the different uses of there, their and they're.

An informative, multimedia lesson on words that are easily confused in the English language. View a video [1:11], a poster, a slide show, and a handout to learn the correct meanings of several commonly misused words.

Read about homonyms, and then click through slides explaining the meanings of 14 homonyms and commonly misused words. Find more examples in a homonym video [1:20] and a triple homonym song video. [2:08] Finally, read spelling tips for...

This resource presents a fun and interactive way to learn all about the elements of music. It offers links to information, definitions, assessments, and examples of melody, harmony and tonality, structure, tempo, metre and rhythm,...

This is great site where you can learn about puns and have fun as well. There is a "Pun of the Day" and a "Pun Search" to find phrases with specific words.

A factsheet, a worksheet, a game, and a quiz are provided for teachers and students at this BBC spelling skills tutorial that shows you how to avoid confusing words.