SPaG Year 2 Spelling: Homophones and near homophones

Resources to teach a variety of homophones and near homophones

POWERPOINT

Introduction to homophones: Explains why the English language has so many homophones
Year 2 Homophones with pictures: Includes be/bee, been/been, bare/bear, blew/blue, for/four, here/hear, knew/new, night/knight, know/no, one/won, pair/pear, plain/plane, quite/quiet, red/read, right/write, sea/see, where/wear, so/sew/saw, some/sum, son/sun, tail/tale, their/they're/there, through/threw, to/too/two, week/weak and which/witch
Writing sentences with homophones: Activity for sentence writing

The following powerpoints look at individual pairs/trios of homophones, explaining the differences, and giving sentences at the end to choose which one is the correct word:

Homophones they're their there
Homophones hear and here
Homophones son and sun
Homophones to two and too
Homophones be and bee

ACTIVITIES

Homophone cards with pictures
Homophone cards (just words)

TEACHER RESOURCES

Y2 Spelling Appendix: An adaptable outline plan
Word List - With relevant words