Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Homophones!

Yesterday we started working with Homophones. I had one of those right - before - the - lesson - brain - cramps and decided to start my lesson a different way. Instead of me telling the students what homophones were I gave each student a card with a homophone pair on it. Students then got EEKK (elbow to elbow, knee to knee) with a classmate and talked about what they noticed about the words. Then we discussed what they noticed. This is what they came up with:
   * They sound the same ( with a little coaching from me... they wanted to say they were just the same)
   * They are spelled different.
   * They do not mean the same thing.

I was amazed and a bit proud of them ( well... and myself!)

We then listened to the homophone song and students had to highlight the homophone pairs in the poem.

Today they took a homophone pair and used a graphic organizer to draw a picture of the word, and use the word in a sentence. We are going to make these into a class book.




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8 comments:

  1. Ms. DurningFebruary 15, 2011 at 1:50 PM

    What's the homophone song?

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  2. SRadcliffFebruary 15, 2011 at 2:17 PM

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  3. SRadcliffFebruary 15, 2011 at 2:18 PM

    I bought a CD from Intelli - Tunes that has grammar and English songs with lyrics by Ron Brown. My kiddos love them!

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  4. The Schroeder PageFebruary 15, 2011 at 4:22 PM

    The Phonics Dance has a cute chant for homophones. I love a song! www.theschroederpage.com
    Monica

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  5. Mrs. HarrisFebruary 18, 2011 at 7:36 PM

    You've won the stylish blogger award!!

    http://adventuresofroom129.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-would-like-to-thank-academy.html

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  6. Ms. DurningFebruary 20, 2011 at 6:18 AM

    I too gave you the stylish award :)
    http://msdurning.blogspot.com/2011/02/wow-second-grade-is-stylish.html

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  7. BillMay 7, 2011 at 8:23 PM

    Check out
    http://www.brade-tunes.com/pages/Homophone_Songs.html

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  8. Ms.RuckerJanuary 8, 2012 at 10:02 AM

    Pbskids.org Between the Lions has a cute homophone song.
    http://pbskids.org/lions/videos/homophones.html

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