Which word is right?

Which word is right?

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This task is about choosing the right word to make a sentence correct.
Read the story. In some sentences, there will be a list of possible words to choose from. Only one of the words in each list makes sense.
Choose the one word that makes sense in the sentence it is in.
 

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boys in a bunk bed
 
Staying at Koro's House
 
I stayed at my Nanny and Koro's house on the weekend. Mum said that I was to wherewearwe're my best clothes, so I had to take offof my rugby jersey. Mum drove me to theretheirthey're house because it was twotooto far to walk. Nanny and Koro have totootwo TVs so I went to watch some cartoons in their bedroom while Mum talked with Nanny in the lounge. Koro was working in the garden. He noseknowsno's heaps about plants. On Saturday night three of my cousins werewherewe're staying and we went toototwo the movies. Later we all slept in the same bedroom. It was fun talking in bed with the lights out.
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Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
English, Creating meaning, Writing
Key Competencies: 
Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
proofreading, essential word lists, homophones, spelling
Description of task: 
In this resource students select the correct word from a range of homophones from the essential word lists.
Curriculum Links: 
Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • spell high frequency words correctly

as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions.

Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Writing meaningful text: encoding, sets 3-4
within the Writing Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y4 (06/2002)
wear very easy
off

very easy
their moderate
For all 3 of "to/too/two" correct
or
for 2 of "to/too/two".		 moderate
 
easy
knows very easy
were easy

For example:

  

NOTE: 18% of students identified all the correct words and 47% made 1-2 errors.
Diagnostic and formative information: 
Correct Responses Common Errors
wear
very easy		 14% of students identified where as correct, 2% of students identified we're as correct.
off
very easy		 10% of students identified of as correct.
their
moderate		 34% of students identified there as correct, 11% of students identified they're as correct.
too
easy		 28% of students identified to as correct, 2% of students identified two as correct.
two
very easy		 10% of students identified too as correct, 7% of students identified to as correct.
knows
very easy		 7% of students identified nose as correct, 4% of students identified no's as correct.
were
easy		 18% of students identified we're as correct, 12% of students identified where as correct.
to
easy		 25% of students identified too as correct, 4% of students identified two as correct.

 

The words used in this resource are taken from Spell-Write Essential Words for Spelling and Writing.
List 1 List 2 List 3 List 4
to were their too
    off know
    two  
Source: 'Spell-Write', Written by Cedric Croft, NZCER, 1998.