Homophone Words word search, scramble and crossword puzzle

Homophone Words word search, scramble and crossword puzzle

I made this homophones puzzle set for my 2nd and 3rd graders during our vocabulary unit. The kids were constantly mixing up words like "there," "their," and "they're" in their writing. So I put together a word search, a word scramble, and a crossword using words like there/their/they're, to/too/two, here/hear, see/sea, right/write, know/no, read/red, ate/eight, flour/flower, knight/night, mail/male, pair/pear, peace/piece, sale/sail, week/weak, and where/wear. Nothing fancy — just puzzles to help the homophones finally stick.

The PDF is four pages. Three puzzles plus one answer key page. The word search works well for quiet time after recess. The scramble gets them talking because they argue about whether "bear" and "bare" sound the same. The crossword I use for partners. I added a couple simple ear, eye, and flower drawings but nothing too busy.

Works for 2nd through 4th grade. Print and go. Sometimes I have early finishers write a sentence using one homophone pair on the back. The kids actually ask for these now.