This week we had a fun day and reviewed homophones and homographs. The students had so much fun with the activities that I gave them a little time the next day to add to the spiral. We filled out a chart and made several foldables. The students were also able to look through magazines and newspapers to find examples... we had a blast! I got all of the ideas from Dinah Zike's Vocabulary foldables book, so all I can share is pictures and there are plenty! Here we go...
Thanks for making it through the picture overload!!
Next week we will be discussing Using our Resources (dictionaries, thesauruses, & glossaries) and we will also be starting our novel study.
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Love it! I would like to make this into a Word Work station. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteTeaching homophones and homographs is one of my favorite topics! They're tricky, but if you give the students a solid foundation, then they are much more successful in spelling, vocabulary, and writing activities further down the road.
ReplyDeleteI love your foldable ideas - I'm definitely going to incorporate them when we cover homophones in my class.
One of my favorite things to do with homophones is I give each student a pear-shaped piece of paper with a homophone on it. Then they have to find a classmate with their homophone pair on it - "a pair of pears" :) The partners work together to create a sentence correctly using both homophones and then we display these on a "pear tree" bulletin board :)
~Jessica
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That is a great lesson! I love it and will be using it the next time we teach it!
ReplyDeleteHow cute! I love it! Esspecially the foldable.. I can so see my fifth graders eating that up and even better remember it! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if you were selling the homophone foldable??
ReplyDeleteNo. We just took copy paper and made it from students examples.
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