OBJECTIVE: To help students K-5 with learned spelling patterns of frequently confused words and use context to determine the meaning of those words. There are 24 homophones in this leprechaun story. Some are used many times giving your students multiple exposures to achieving mastery.
ACTIVITY: No prep needed other than to print off copies for each student. Place them in centers and use student performance to determine which students are ready to move on and which need to be pulled into small group for reteaching.
MATERIALS: Besides crayons or colored pencils, none, just print off enough copies of the activity that you need. Answer key and printable student evidence/artifact of learning.
RESOURCE/TEXT: No text is necessary. However, these words are from the Journey’s text: Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend by Ann Cameron, a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt book.
STUDENT EVIDENCE/ARTIFACT: Printable “I Can Learn to Spell Homophones!” Happy St. Patrick’s Day coloring sheet.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATIONS
ON-GRADE LEVEL: 2nd-Grade
BELOW-GRADE LEVEL/RETEACHING: 3rd-5th Grade
ABOVE-GRADE LEVEL/ENRICHMENT: Kindergarten-1st Grade
COMMON CORE STANDARD & SKILL DEVELOPED:
RF.4.4.c ~ Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding
L.3.4.a ~ Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word
L.1.1.h ~ Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English by correctly spelling and using frequently confused words (to, two, too; there, their, they’re)