Knowledge and Skills Statement
Provide a text that includes homophones. Task students with identifying the homophones and describing the meaning of each. Then, have students write a sentence or two using the homophones in their correct context.
Homophones you may wish to use:
- Reign/rain
- Right/write
- Whole/hole
- Peace/piece
- Grate/great
- To/two/too
- Wait/weight
- There/their/they’re
- Threw/through
- Its/it’s
- Your/you’re
- Who’s/whose
- Weather/whether
Further Explanation
This assessment requires students to use context clues to determine the meaning of homophones. As homophones sound the same, students cannot rely on pronunciation to determine meaning of the words. Students must use the context of the sentence along with background knowledge and exposure to the words to determine meaning. Frequent exposure to homophones will lead to automaticity.
Students may benefit from keeping a list of homophones in their reading or writing notebook. Creating an illustration to accompany homophone use will support visual learners.