This suite of resources is designed to test students from Year 5 through to Adult Learners on the various homonyms and near homophones which can be so confusing, and which are so often misused. Use the tests:

• Diagnostically to identify areas of weakness
• As re-inforcement exercises to work on areas of weakness
• For revision

We recommend that you give each student the diagnostic test initially. The results of this will show you each student's strengths and weaknesses by word class (e.g. where/were/we're). Specific tests are then available so that you can target your teaching effectively.

These quizzes reinforce the exercises in the Chalkface Literacy Basics worksheets Pack 1 and Pack 3. There is a direct correspondence between the quizzes and the page numbers in each pack. 

There are 10 questions per quiz. They use a rich variety of different question types to maintain interest, and every question includes formative feedback. 

To get the most out of these quizzes:

• use them in conjunction with the worksheets, either beforehand as diagnostics, or afterwards as reinforcement. 
• for reinforcement, allow 2-3 attempts per quiz, but not more.
• for diagnostic use, allow only one attempt per quiz.
• when assigning to a whole class, use the Teams feature to encourage competition.

The Wordles quiz covers 20 of the 32 topics and can be used for general reinforcement. It is not suitable as a general diagnostic, because its highly visual nature would skew the results. The Wordles themselves were created on wordle.net.