A Homophones Word Search for Kids

Are you looking for an engaging learning tool to expand your students’ understanding of common homophones and their spellings? Look no further than this set of three differentiated homophones word searches!

Using word searches as a teaching tool can add an element of fun and interactivity to your vocabulary lessons. Most students find word searches to be a highly motivating task. Concentration is at its peak as students focus on finding all the words in the puzzle, with the added benefit of expanding their vocabulary!

This set of three differentiated homophones word searches is bound to keep your students engaged for the duration of the lesson! Each word search contains 20 words for students to find. The words in each word search increase in difficulty.

• Word Search 1 – there/their, where/wear, write/right, blue/blew, see/sea, male/mail, sun/son, pear/pair, meet/meat, rode/road
• Word Search 2 – flour/flower, break/brake, aloud/allowed, waist/waste, need/knead, wood.would, sum/some, stare/stair, grate/great, ate/eight
• Word Search 3 – knight/night, sweet/suite, through/threw, bored/board, weight/wait, course/coarse, whether/weather, principle/principal, current/currant, moose/mousse

Download the black-and-white PDF, or if you’d like to make any personal alterations to the resource, an editable Google Slides version is also available. 

Word searches allow students to practice valuable cognitive skills such as visual scanning, pattern recognition and sustained attention, making this resource the perfect addition to your vocabulary lessons on homophones!

How to Extend This Homophones Activity 

Looking for ways to use this resource to further explore homophones with your students? Check out some great ideas from our experienced teacher team!

• Homophones Story – Have your students write a short story that includes all 20 words from one of the word searches. In doing this, the students must demonstrate their understanding of the correct spelling and meaning for each homophone used. This is a great way for teachers to check each student’s knowledge!
• Draw the Pair – Have your students draw visual representations of some of the pairs of homophones from the word search. For example, they could draw a moose (the animal) and a mousse (the desert) to show they understand the difference between the two words.
• Dictionary Work – Have your students look up and write down the definitions of some of the pairs of homophones from the word search. Not only will this solidify their knowledge of the homophones and their meanings, but it also provides great practice for locating words in a dictionary!

Download These Homophones Word Searches

Use the dropdown menu next to the Download button above to access either the easy-print PDF or the Google Slides version of this resource. (Note: You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides template before accessing it).

As this resource contains answer sheets, we recommended printing one copy of the resource, removing the answer pages, then making copies as required.

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