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Grade 5, Language Arts Spelling: Identify incorrect spelling of common homophones in context (COS 20, 25, 28/ SAT10)

Lesson Plans: To, Too, or Two: Developing an understanding of homophones This lesson uses multiple modalities to introduce and practice many common homophones. Students will engage in singing, acting, creative writing, and drawing to demonstrate their understanding of homophones. How Do You Spell That?? In this two lesson unit students explore the pitfalls of spelling by reading a humorous poem, correcting its mistakes and creating their own version. In the process students learn about homophones, homonyms and phonetic strategies. Horrid Homonyms When writing, students often confuse and misuse words that sound alike but have different meanings. This activity is designed to remind students of the specific meanings and correct usage of some of these often confused words. Chocolate Homophones Students will identify homophones found in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They will play a homophone guessing game and use some homophones that they have learned to write sentences about the story.

Resources: Sense and Nonsense: Students will read the sentences and find incorrect spelling of homophones. Homophones (A-L): This is a quiz in which students will place the appropriate homophone in a given sentence. Homophones (M-Z): This quiz is similar to the previous one. Suggestions for English Language Learners: (E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) (E/B, D, E) Super Match Game Students match homophones under squares to reveal a picture. (E/B, D, E) Students work in small groups or with partners to peer edit and check spelling. Teacher may also lead class edits on the chalkboard or overhead. (D, E) Students word-process their written work to check for spelling errors. Students decide if the spell-check has given a correct suggestion or inappropriate suggestion for spelling according to the context of the written work.
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