English is so confusing! Is it flaunt or flout? Peak or pique? Loath or loathe? I know lots of educated adults who have trouble with similar sounding words. Here's a great resource that provides opportunities for students in grades 6-12 to recognize the most commonly confused words and homophones in English. There are currently seven units in the work book, with five sets of problem words, like flaunt/flout, discreet/discrete, whose/who's, etc. The workbook comes with a set of PowerPoints to introduce the words visually and orally. The exercises provide reading practice of high-level complexity and utilizing context clue skills. Also great for developing higher-level vocabulary. Check it out at my store at Teachers Pay Teachers.com. There is a free sample of unit one on contractions vs. pronouns.
This is why the English language is one of the hardest to learn, amongst other confusing aspects of our language, like idioms. As I'm writing this post, it's raining cats and dogs! Really!
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