Homophone Pairs
This is the red/read that completes the sentence:
I can see the ________ apple.
What is a RED?
This is both what you do to a word right now, and what you did with a book last night?
What is READ and READ?
Both syllables in the word picnic are this kind.
What are closed syllables?
This suffix is what we add to a verb, or action word, to change its meaning to "in the past"
What is -ed"
These three homonyms sound like 2 and can complete this sentence:
I would like _____ bring ______ friends and my cousin to the party, _____.
What is TO, TWO, TOO?
This is the word that means a food that we eat. Is it meet, or meat?
What is MEAT?
This word can mean what you do to a door or window, and also the opposite of far away.
What is CLOSE and CLOSE?
The word mistake is made up of these two kinds of syllables.
What is a closed and silent-e syllable?
These two suffixes can be added to a noun to change it from singular to plural.
What is "s" or "es"?
These homophone triplets correctly complete this sentence:
After I ________ my new car I will stop _______ your house to say ________ to your friend.
What is BY, BUY, and BYE?
This is the here/hear that completes this sentence:
I __________ that song on the radio.
What is HEAR?
This word can be used to name the drops that fall from your eyes when you are sad, or another word for rip.
What is TEAR and TEAR?
This is where you would divide and mark the kinds of syllables in the word "rodeo".
What is ro-de-o?
open, open, open
This suffix can be added to a word when comparing two things, or to mean "one who does" something"
What is "er" ?
These three words can correctly complete this sentence: there, their, and they're
__________ going over ___________ to visit _________ grandparents.
What is THEY'RE, THERE and THEIR?
This is the homophone that completes this sentence:
I do not know (wear or where) you live.
What is WHERE?
This same spelling word can mean both a kind of fish , and a kind of musical instrument.
What is BASS and BASS?
This is where you would divide and mark the syllables in the word UNDERSTATEMENT
What is UN-DER-STATE-MENT?
closed, r-controlled, silent-e, closed
This suffix can be added to a word to make it mean "not" something. Like if you are "not" happy.
What is un-?
SENT, CENT, and SCENT:
one means a smell,
one means a penny,
and one means the past of send.
What is SCENT, CENT, and SENT?
This homonym pair can mean the opposite of open, or the things that you wear.
What is CLOSE and CLOTHES?
This pair of words can mean what you use to shoot an arrow, and what you would do at the end of a performance.
What is BOW and BOW?
This is how you would divide and mark the syllables in the word reactivate?
What is re-ac-ti-vate?
open, closed, schwa, silent e
This suffix can be added to word to make it mean that you are full of something or do something very much.
Add it to a word like help of forget to make these words.
What is -ful?
Which (do, due, dew) you need?
One means "to operate" or to be active
one means "morning mist" or wet grass in the morning
one means "payable" or that money is owed
What is DO, DEW and DUE?