Homophones are an everyday element of reading. This is the perfect way to recognise the spelling and meaning because the pairs are illustrated.

There are six sets with 45 cards in each set. That's 22 pairs and the fun part - the DONKEY card.

You can mix the sets to suit your needs and there is a discreet labelling system that you can use to reconstitute them if you need to.

The words I have used are:

Set 1: flower/flour, ate/eight, ball/bawl, bare/bear, rose/rows, right/write/ piece/peace, pear/pair, weather/wether, flu/flew, whole/hole, poor/pour, hair/hare, knight/night, knows/nose, toe/tow, sea/see, toad/towed, bee/be, died/dyed, flea/flee, road/rode

Set 2: mail/male, one/won, blew/blue, sail/sale, steal/steel, or/oar, which/witch, root/route, pause/paws, made/maid, here/hear, there/their, to/too, red/read, read/reed, wear/where, not/knot, wood/would, cheep/cheat, week/weak, plain/plane, through/threw

Set 3: aisle/I’ll, allowed/aloud, bean/been, brake/break, bye/buy, chews/choose, dear/deer, eye/I, fir/fur guessed/guest, for/four, berry/bury, crews/cruise, grate/great, heard/jherd, higher/hire, hour/oour, knead/need, due/dew, none/nun, wait/weight, pray/prey

Set 4: heel/heal, band/banned, fair/fare, sent/cent, lessen/lesson, laze/lays, stair/stare, meat/meet, navel/naval, saw/sore, cue/queue, board/bored, sun/son, weigh/way, missed/mist, peak/peek, waist/waste, tee/tea, prince/prints, steak/stake, fined/find, tale/tail

Set 5: beet/beat, wail/whale, foul/fowl, bridal/bridle, sew/so, doe/dough, fought/fort, bow/bough, site/sight, vane/vain, rein/rain, sent/scent, too/two, by/buy, cereal/serial, course/coarse, creek/creak, duel/dual, ferry/fairy, gorilla/guerrilla, groan/grown, down/down

Set 6: new/knew, leak/leek, hoes/hose, miner/minor, mind/mined, mare/mayor, loot/lute, maze/maize, nit/knit, mown/moan, pain/pane, passed/past, rapper/wrapper, presents/presence, reel/real, review/revue, tear/tier, throne/thrown, tied/tide, turn/tern, sum/some, soared/sword