4th Grade Words People Mix Up worksheets

About this worksheet

Lose and loose, accept and except, their, there, and they're look and sound almost alike, so a fourth grader cannot tell them apart by sound the way they can with most words — they have to think about what each word means and check it against the sentence. This worksheet always shows a complete sentence with one blank, never the pair of confusable words sitting side by side with no context, because that is exactly the reasoning a real writer has to do. Some questions ask which word completes the sentence, others ask what the correct word means there, and others ask your child to type the word themselves rather than choose it from a list.

The most common mistake is picking the more familiar-looking or more frequently seen word out of habit rather than checking its meaning. Ask your child to say what each word in the confusable pair means before they choose, since the meaning almost always settles which spelling belongs in the blank.

What your child will learn

• Choose the correct word between commonly confused pairs
• Explain what each word in a confusable pair means
• Recognize a correctly used sentence versus an incorrect one
• Spell the correct word from context without a word bank