• Quick retrieval from earlier learning (their/there/they're, its/it's, your/you're, whose/who's). Students answer on mini whiteboards.
• Show answers together and note who needs support in the main task.

1. Choose the correct word or words for the gap. ___ the best goalkeeper we've ever had. (Your / You're) → You'rePrompt: Try expanding the contraction: does 'they are', 'it is', 'you are' or 'who is' make sense?
2. Which sentence is correct? • Your welcome to borrow your sister's tent. • You're welcome to borrow your sister's tent. • Your welcome to borrow you're sister's tent. • You're welcome to borrow you're sister's tent. (Your welcome to borrow your sister's tent. / You're welcome to borrow your sister's tent. / Your welcome to borrow you're sister's tent. / You're welcome to borrow you're sister's tent.) → You're welcome to borrow your sister's tent.Prompt: Check each tricky word one at a time.
3. Choose the correct word or words for the gap. When ___ finished, put ___ books away. (you're, you're / your, you're / you're, your / your, your) → you're, yourPrompt: Try expanding the contraction: does 'they are', 'it is', 'you are' or 'who is' make sense?

• Show a sentence with the grammar point used wrongly and ask what sounds odd.
• Share the objective: Confusing pairs: then/than, lose/loose, accept/except, quiet/quite. Read the success criteria together.

• Work through the example out loud, saying why you do each step, not just what you do.
• Example: Choose the correct word for the gap. If we ___ this match, we're out of the cup.
• Step 1: These pairs sound or look alike but have different meanings and jobs.
• Step 2: 'lose' (one o) = fail to win or misplace.
• Step 3: Put it back into the sentence and read it aloud: "If we lose this match, we're out of the cup."
• Step 4: So the answer is: lose
• Answer: lose
• Pause after each step and ask a student to say what comes next.

• Do these together. Students try each step on whiteboards before you reveal it.
• Use the hints as prompts rather than giving the answer.

1. Choose the correct word for the gap. The wind blew the ___ papers across the yard. (lose / loose) → loosePrompt: Say the sentence aloud. Which meaning does the gap need?
2. Each sentence has one wrong word. Type the word that should replace it. I'd rather read then watch TV. → thanPrompt: Find the word that is spelled like a real word but means something else.

• Students work on the student sheet. Circulate and check the first two answers of every student early.
• Students who finish: write a question of their own for a partner, with the answer.

The 8 questions are on the student sheet below, with answers in the key.

• Two questions on their own. Sort answers into got it / nearly / not yet to plan the next lesson.

1. Each sentence has one wrong word. Type the word that should replace it. Everyone accept Jo was there. → exceptPrompt: Find the word that is spelled like a real word but means something else.
2. Choose the correct word for the gap. I'd rather walk ___ wait for the bus. (then / than) → thanPrompt: Say the sentence aloud. Which meaning does the gap need?

Free online practice with hints and printable worksheets for this skill: eurekami.com/english/grade-6.