Words with Silent Letters- Hangman

Words with silent letters hangman

with homophones practice

Look at the section or sections below and do the activity or activities from here that your teacher tells you to:

• Choose one of the words with silent letters on the left below and write one gap for each letter of the word, e.g. “__ ___ __” for “who”
• Choose one of the words with silent letters and write one gap for each letter of the word with brackets around the silent letter, e.g. “___ ___ ___ (___)” for “bomb”.
• Choose one of the words with silent letters and its homophone on one line below and write gaps for both, e.g. “___ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___” for “wrap/ rap”.
• Choose one of the words with silent letters on the left or one of the homophones without silent letters on the right and write a gap for each letter of that one word, e.g. “___ ___ ___” for “dam”

Your partner(s) will then guess the letters in the word or words one letter at a time (in any order). Write the letters in any suitable gaps if they guess correctly, e.g. in two gaps if they say “A” and there are two As in the word or words. Write that letter with a cross through it if it doesn’t appear anywhere in the word or words. If they make ten wrong guesses before they complete the whole word or words, then they lose that round. After guessing the whole word correctly, they should identify any silent letters, pronounce the word correctly and/ or brainstorm a homophone.

Ask about any words in that section or those sections below which you don’t understand, can’t pronounce, can’t identify the silent letter in, etc.

Test each other on the words in the same section(s) in other ways:

• Spell one word and see if your partner can pronounce it
• Pronounce one word and see if your partner can identify the silent letter
• Spell one word and see if your partner can pronounce it and then spell a homophone
• Say a silent letter and see if your partner can say and/ or spell an example with that silent letter (with other examples not on the worksheets below also okay)

 

Levels 1 and 2 words with silent letters and homophones

1. hour/ our
2. knew/ new
3. know/ no
4. knows/ nose
5. muscle/ mussel
6. where/ wear
7. which/ witch
8. why/ Y
9. would/ wood
10. wrap/ rap
11. write/ right/ rite

 

Levels 3 and 4 words with silent letters and homophones

1. aisle/ isle/ I’ll
2. build/ billed
3. damn/ dam
4. heir/ air
5. hymn/ him
6. knight/ night
7. knot/ not
8. reigns/ rains/ reins
9. scene/ seen
10. scent/ sent
11. sword/ sawed/ soared
12. wheel/ we’ll
13. whether/ weather
14. whole/ hole

 

Level 5 words with silent letters and homophones

1. ascent/ assent
2. climbs/ climes
3. colonel/ kernel
4. corps/ core
5. faux/ foe
6. gnaw/ nor
7. knap/ nap
8. knead/ kneed/ need
9. knit/ nit
10. plumb/ plum
11. pseud/ sued
12. the gnats/ the Nats
13. whet/ wet
14. whey/ way/ weigh
15. whine/ wine
16. wholly/ holy
17. wreck/ rec
18. wrest/ rest
19. wretch/ retch
20. wring/ ring
21. wrote/ rote
22. wrung/ rung
23. wry/ rye

 

 

Homophones of words with silent letters practice

Write a word which has exactly the same pronunciation as each word below but is spelt with a silent letter.

Levels 1 and 2 words which have homophones with silent letters

our

new

no

nose

mussel

wear

witch

Y

wood

rap

right/ rite

 

Levels 3 and 4 words which have homophones with silent letters

I’ll

billed

dam

air

him

night

not

rains/ reins

seen

sent

sawed/ soared

we’ll

weather

hole

 

Level 5 words which have homophones with silent letters

assent                                            climes                                             kernel

core                                                foe                                                   nor

nap                                                 need                                               nit

plum                                               sued                                               the Nats

wet                                                  way                                                 wine

holy                                                 rec                                                   rest

retch                                               ring                                                 rote

rung                                                rye

 

Check above.