Practice - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

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Homophones are words that sound the same but have different
spellings and different meanings.
A. Circle the word that makes sense in each sentence.
1. Most fairy tales are stories that you have (herd / heard)
before.
2. The hero often must race to complete a task in just one (hour
/ our).
3. In some stories, people try to (by / buy)
happiness with jewels or gold.
4. My baseball team (one / won)
the game.
B. Write a word from the box next to each word to make pairs
of homophones, and write a sentence using one of the
homophones in the pair.
pear flower course hear
5. here
6. coarse
7. pair
8. fl our
At Home: List three additional pairs of homophones.
Choose three words, and correctly use each one
in a sentence.
Practice
Vocabulary Strategy:
Recognize
Homophones
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