Once theyve agreed on a story, its time to begin the writing of it. A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. One day i discovered a book that had pairs of homophones. See more ideas about teaching reading, teaching and word study. Students listen to story using homophones and make texttotext connections by matching selected homographs. This printable english language arts worksheet is a great addition to a lesson on homophon. Once you find your worksheet, click on popout icon or print icon to worksheet to print or download. Last summer, we couldnt decide whether to visit boston or st.
Some kids choose to use a copy using the actual story for inspiration of the original story as a guide. Homophones memory game with images language arts lessons. The author, gene barretta, use homophones to make the book more fun and enjoyable for children to read. There, their, theyre how to spell 2 complete sentences w there, their, theyre depending on context.
Make sure that all spellings are correct, using a dictionary if necessary. Download as ppt, pdf, txt or read online from scribd. The kid had killed a family while driving under the influence of alcohol and had spent 7 years in jail. This letter explains that the ant now lives in a zoo and has meant a lot of other animals. The king who rained read aloud childrens books read. In cooperative groups, have students play the homophone bingo game using the posted clip art display for help. What are some examples of short stories with homophones. It is a quick and concise lesson on these terms with a focus on word roots to help students remember the meanings. Then have each pair come up with a sentence for each homophone to share with the class. Mentor text for homophones teaching homophones, homophones. Homophones write the following passage in your literacy. Students choose the correct homophone in a flip book to complete sentences. Have students choose words to use in a story or in sentences in their writing notebooks. Students must circle homophones used incorrectly and identify the correct spelling of each.
About homophones downloads for all about learning press. Homophones funny cartoons from cartoonstock directory the worlds largest online collection of cartoons and comics. Activation introduce author gene barretta to students and share information about him from his website explain we will be reading a. Homophones that are spelled the same are also both homographs and homonyms. Homophones teaching homophones, homophones, phonics. Identifying words that sound the same the earls high school. In the following story, circle the correct homophone. Comes with 3 different sorting mats with reindeer homophones that come in. Homophones cartoons and comics funny pictures from. Use this attractive homophones poster on the wall, as a handout, or digitally on a screen while your students are working on any homophone assignment. Immediately after purchase, you will receive a download link for the pdf.
This weeks free printable is a practice page dealing with homophones, specifically their, there and theyre. Underline the homonyms, and put stars next to the 2 homographs. Dear deer is a childrens book that takes you through a letter from an ant to a deer. The word on the right should help you understand and remember the pronunciation of the word on the left. See if the class can guess which homophone is used in each sentence.
Homophones words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Teachers will download a free sampler homonyms worksheet for 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, esl, special. Find the correct homophone from the eps book clues to meaning e read definition of homophone. After reading a couple of fun books and completing a few activities we created a classroom homophone book. This is sort of a tricky concept for little second graders, however, they did a great job and seemed to understand the various pairs of homophones. Heres a clever story that teaches students to recognize when homophones are used the wrong way in a reading passage. I woke up this morningmourning with a serious problem. This book helps children and adults to understand the meaning of homophones through a sentence or two for each illustration. The student flips the pages in the flip book and selects a pair of homophones and reads them. In england people always spread butter or margarine on bred bread.
Give thirdgrade students this homophone story worksheet that tells the story of a boy and his humongous monsters. In english, a homophone is a word that is pronounced exactly or nearly the same as another word but differs in meaning and is spelled differently. Homophones write the following passage in your literacy book, with the correct homophones. What made this book even more exceptional was that it was accompanied with pictures that matched each essential homophone. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. All about homophones ebook all about learning press, inc. File cards with one homophone written on each card. Words that sound alike but have different meanings and different spellings homophones 3. Strategies for differentiation use flashcards as a concentration game. In fact, we just added these homophones over 5 years ago. Homophones are the most confusing words in the english language. This accountability is a good motivator in helping them to keep on task. Homophone story worksheet give thirdgrade students this homophone story worksheet that tells the story of a boy and his humongous monsters.
If you bring your paper here, i will be able to check it. Brides often cover their there face with a vale veil. The king who rained is a book of puns and is written by fred gwynne and is a hilarious childrens book read aloud with phenomenal pictures of kid. How many members of a convent does it take to change a light bulb. This reading and writing worksheet explains that homophones are words that sound similar but have different meanings and asks students to circle the correct homophones in each sentence of the story. This homophone story worksheet is suitable for 3rd 4th grade. Pdf the objectives of the study are 1 to find out the students vocabulary mastery before being taught. In this homophone worksheet, students read the story and then determine which word best completes each sentence. Name that homophone jeopardy free download as powerpoint presentation.
Pdf using a teaching media of homophone stories to improve. They project walks them through an example of a silly story, finding homophones, listing their own homoph. Prepare separate cards with a homophone sentence on each one using examples from the book turn cards with sentence face down on table students play a match game by selecting two cards, player keeps the cards if the homophones match illustrate homophones pair students, give each pair a set of homophones, written on a card. Flips through the sentence pages to find the two sentences that correspond to.
Many new additions are thanks to contributions from users like you. Oct 31, 2012 this homophone worksheet encourages your kid to learn with a fun monster story. This was a fabulous book for my esl students who need more vocabulary. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose flower and rose past tense of rise, or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or to, two, and too. As an alternative, the kindle ebook is available now and can be read on any device with the free kindle app. Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently, like rode and. Homophone story worksheet for 3rd 4th grade lesson planet. Have students look up the definition of each word and write it on the back of the card. Students select the words from the homophone choices.
Play bingo in pairs in order to read and decide together. I also read various homophone books throughout the year when i do this activity. Some of the worksheets for this concept are homophone story, homophones, homophone clues, vocabulary 2nd grade homophones, homophones, homophone work 2, dear deer a book of homophones by gene barretta compiled, identifying words that sound the same. Dear deer is a fun center for students to match homophones by filling in the blanks in sentences. All homophones were bolded to show correlation between the 2. He had been with us for around a month and i noticed he had. Smith publishing, second grade, item 4300 created date. Theyre, there, their pdf posted by squarehead teachers. I provide a list of homophones and lined paper for them, along with a sheet to keep track of all of the homophones. As soon as the weather turned cold, we went out and bought new coats.
Complete the story using the homophones from the word box. Cross out the incorrect homophones and replace them with correct homophones. Use the book dear deer by gene barretta to begin the lesson. Each sentence has a blank line and two homophones to choose from. Homophones resource book paperback january 1, 1999 by susan c. Learning about homophones and homonyms is laughoutloud fun in this retelling of the little red hen. The story is great for a read aloud when teaching or introducing homophones to students. I provide a list of homophones and lined paper for them, along with a sheet to keep track of all of the homophones, and give a total of how many pairs they used. Students will learn about synonyms, antonyms, and homophones through matching, fillintheblank worksheets, puzzles, and more. Adventures a himitsu we are a nonprofit school encouraging students to. The data prove that it is effective to use homophone stories as a media teaching in improving.
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