Spelling Homophones

Help your students correctly spell homophones in sentences! They’ll use context clues to determine the correct homophone spelling and then check their answers with a dictionary.

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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to choose the correct spelling between homophones based on the context of the sentence.

Introduction

(5 minutes)

Display one of the pictures from the What is a Homophone? website, or another website of your choice.
Help determine students' understanding of homophones by asking the following questions: What is the cartoonist telling you with these two pictures? What do the underlined words have in common?
Tell students that today they will focus on spelling homophones correctly by using the context of a sentence. They can also check their answers in an online dictionary.
Ask a student to read the student objective.
Choose another student to define context clues as clues within a sentence that tell the meaning of words and homophones as words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
Correct the student's definition before continuing to the next section, if necessary.

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