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Unit Study of Sound Alike words- Homophones

December 9, 2021 By Bekki Leave a Comment This content may contain affiliate links.

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Some words and concepts are trickier to master in the English Language. Like homophones.

They sound the same, but have entirely different meanings.

One brilliant way you massage those sound-alike words into our kids minds is to draw them.

Check out the Language Nerds for ideas.

Collect a list of most common homophones.

Get some index cards and some colored pencils/markers.

Each week, take the time to draw or find images that illustrate a group of synonyms. Example: Pair, pare, pear.

On the front: draw/glue the image and the word; but, write the word in a spot that you can easily cover with your thumb.

On the back: write just the word.

A few times a week play games with the words.

Pick 4 and create!

  • Shuffle the deck and have your child pick 4 cards.
  • Together, build the craziest, funniest, or weirdest sentence possible!

ABC Order

  • Give your student all, or a collection of the cards.
  • Have them place the words in alphabetic order.

Synonym sort!

  • Group the words by parts of speech:Noun- pearVerb- pareAdjective-pair

Spelling 🐝 Bee!!

  • Show just the image
  • Say the word-Spell

Scrabble tiles

  • Flip a word
  • Spell with scrabble letter tiles

Build it!!

Pick 4-5 words to build with play doe, sticks and rocks, or Legos!

Challenging words need to be massaged in to our children’s minds.

Have fun!!

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