Reading Skill

Homonyms are words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings. In this lesson you will practice with the following homonyms:

Homonym Meaning Example
to used to express action and to show the place Nathan liked to go to town.
too means more than enough or also Molly liked to go to town too, but Miz Tizz was too big to go.
two means the number 2 Job and Crabby were two farm animals.
     
their Their is a possessive pronoun like her or our. Their pa had a good aim when shooting his gun.
they're If you’ve written they’re, ask yourself whether you can substitute they are. If not, you’ve made a mistake. They're afraid to go with Ezra until he shows them their ma's locket.
there Everything else is there. - There has here buried inside it to remind you it refers to place. There was fear from the townspeople to have Weasel living there.

Fill in the blank spaces with the correct homonym: to, too, two.

  1. "Here, Job! Here, Crabby! Hey, you _______________! I'm home!"
     
  2. The piglets were missing _______________.
     
  3. I stood up and thought about what _______________ do.
     
  4. I kept digging; I was _______________ angry _______________ do anything else.
     
  5. Then I said a few words about how she was the mother of many litters of piglets, and a good mother, _______________, but then it got hard _______________ talk for crying, so I just finished the rest in my head.
     
  6. I didn't want _______________ spend a night alone here, not when Weasel had been here and could come back.
     
  7. Better, I thought, _______________ be moving through the darkness, back _______________ Molly and Pa and Ezra, than _______________ be here alone.
     
  8. Miz Tizz, I thought sickly, had been _______________ big _______________ carry, but that hadn't saved her from Weasel.
     
  9. If I concentrated hard, with all my senses alert, I was able _______________ move pretty quickly though the night forest.

Fill in the blank spaces with the correct homonym: there, they're, or their.

  1. _______________ pa went out to hunt for dinner.
     
  2. _______________ was a silence while we both thought about what to do.
     
  3. _______________ was no answer.
     
  4. Molly and Nathan left _______________ cabin to follow Ezra.
     
  5. _______________ traveling through the woods following Ezra.
     
  6. Would they find _______________ pa?
     
  7. _______________ aren't many tea fixings left.
     
  8. I knew _______________ was not really a path, but that this would be the easiest way to travel.
     
  9. I watched for them to come to the fence, looking for me. But _______________ was no movement, no answering whinny, nothing at all.
     
  10. _______________ was no signs of _______________ farm animals.
     
  11. _______________ was something strange, something stealthy about the sudden utter silence.
     
  12. _______________ strewn all over the farm.
     
  13. Nathan buried Miz Tizz with _______________ dead chickens.
     
  14. _______________ was a hoot of laughter.
     
  15. "You gonna hide _______________ all night, boy?"
     
  16. _______________ animals, I tell him.
     
  17. Tells me to leave him alone, he wants to live with the Shawnees and be _______________ brother.
     
  18. Nathan wondered where _______________ horse and mule were.

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