Homophones Lesson Plan Grade 5. Spell check is a favorite crutch for students but taking spell check into consideration most of the programs don t recognize when a homophone is in play in a sentence. Tell students that they are going to be looking at words that sound the same but have different meanings.
Advise students that these words are called homophones. Based on by my brother s side by tiki and ronde barber. An integral part of students vocabulary and spelling development is to learn and understand the meaning of these homophones.
Write several lists of common homophones on the board such as ate and eight hare and hair pale and pail and flower and flour.
Have a student volunteer to use one of the words in a sentence and then have another volunteer to use the second word in the homophone pair in a sentence. In this minilesson students begin by generating a list of homophones with which they are familiar. An integral part of students vocabulary and spelling development is to learn and understand the meaning of these homophones. Fifth graders complete a worksheet.
