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Online spelling game that provides practice in correct usage of homonyms

Our online spelling games will hone your ability, or your students' abilities, to spot spelling mistakes! This game is fun, too!  Keep kids engaged, motivated and learning when you offer them a variety of practice opportunities and formats.


How to Play Our Online Homonym Game

  1. Click on the incorrect homonym usage from among the underlined words 
  2. Type in the correct spelling on the line in the puzzle image.
  3. Press 'Enter' on your keyboard

Watch out, because we've underlined extra words in each sentence! You won't be timed, and if you get stuck, just click the "Skip" link underneath the sentence.


Why Can't Spell-check Find Homonym Spelling Mistakes?

Homonyms are sets of 2 or more words that are pronounced the same way, but mean different things. Spell-check can only see if what you've typed is a real word—which homonyms are—but spell-check can't understand the meaning of those words. Fortunately, you can understand the meanings of words, and with practice you can easily spot most homonym spelling mistakes.

The solution? Play our free spelling games based on the actual meaning of the words to train yourself to catch these pernicious spelling mistakes, and start making your resumés, college essays, and applications more professional.

Want to go deeper with homonyms? Visit Improve Spelling Skills : Choosing the Correct Homonym page to understand why some homonyms work in one sentence but not another.


More Online Spelling Games & Classroom Activities

Try LOTS MORE of my spelling word games to get your students at their peak performance! The games I've selected here are especially fun and simple to play, with a variety of formats for a variety of types of classrooms. 

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Roll It! - Easy-to-make spelling word games. Roll the consonants around the tube to spell new words. Great at home or at school. 

Hands Up and Hop to It!- These simple, fun games will get your kids' attention, and keep it.  The first game provides quick-thinking mental spelling practice. The second game takes learning outdoors with an educational version of Hopscotch!

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Spelling Bee Games - Try one of my Silent Spelling Bee variations. A fun--and quiet--twist on  a classic game!

Compound Word Wizards - Here's an enjoyable whole class or large-group activity for practicing compound words.

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Word Sandwiches, The Vowel Game, and Words in a Word - Try these easy-to-conduct fun spelling games that also provide spelling and vocab enrichment. There are three different games that require very little preparation.

Fun Spelling Crosswords!

Homophone Crossword - It won't be too/two hard to write/right the correct answers in the puzzle, will it?  This is one of the easier crosswords. We have have difficult ones, too!

Crossword Express - Long and Short

A Long and Short Puzzle! Climb aboard the Crossword Express for this challenging vocabulary puzzler! You'll need to supply long synonyms for some clues and short synonyms for others. As you begin to fill in the grid, the letters you provide will give you clues to more and more words. 

Watermelon Words - Every answer to this fun crossword is spelled using the letters in WATERMELON.  (You'll be surprised at how many words are possible.) A juicy challenge, for sure!

Check my full list of spelling word games frequently to find the latest updates!



   

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