Do you have a fun and effective that you use to teach homophones in your classroom? The theme for our last spelling test was homophones. This was certainly the test where students scored the lowest. Next week, we will do an activity on homophones so that students can create visual/linguistic clues to remember what each word means. Each team of four will be given 8 examples of commonly misspelled homophones (for example: their and there). For each word, students will need to draw a picture or write a word that gives us clues about the definition of each word. For example, if a team gets their and there, they might draw a picture of 3 people for "their" and a picture of a place for "there". For two and too, they might write two tally marks for "two" and write the word "also" next to "too."
The Homophone Game will be used at the beginning of the lesson to introduce examples of how you can use illustrations to give clues about what each word means.
Teams will also be given words that they have to alphabetize. One team may get words for the letters "a, b and c". Then they will have to alphabetize them before writing their clues. In this way, we can post these around the room alphabetically so that students can easily find the correct word they want to use in their writing. Each team will then present their list of words and the clues to the class before the posters are hung around the room.
(This activity was adapted from Rebecca Sipe in her book They Still Can't Spell?, but it was also amended to meet the needs of my students.)
A Complete List of Homophones
Another List of Homophones
Homophones and Homonyms
Homophone and Homonym Games
More Homophone Games
Video on Homophones
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