step#16: homophones

make way!! here come homophones, something that tickles the funny bone of a student.

homophones mean similar sounding. there are many words in English that have different spellings but are sounded identically. they are different words, and thus have different spellings.

there are many homophone words that can be taught to a first-grader. some of them are:

1. sun-son
2. boy-buoy
3. cot-caught
4. flew-flu
5. which-witch
6. wood-would
7. dear-deer
8. blew-blue
9. board-bored
10. chews-choose
11. chilli-chilly
12. desert- dessert
13. flea-flee
14. weigh-way
15. weak-week
16. stare-stair
17. hair- hare
18. knot-not
19. knead- need
20. knight- night
21. mail- male
22. meet- meat
23. plain- plane
24. root-route
25. see-sea
26. I-eye
27. tail-tale
28. two-too

best method will be to have pictures for all the words, so that the child retains better.once you have taught all these, practice. first you may practice by showing a picture and asking the child which of the two homophones will fit there. or, you may show the word and show two pictures asking him which picture describes the word better. later, you may say an incomplete sentence and ask the child which of the two homophones will fit there. for example, "i can ____ an elephant (see/sea)"