$58
weeklyor $116 for 6 classes
Homophones! Learning to Identify, & Utilize Many Commonly-Misspelled Word Pairs
Completed by 2 learners
Ages 8-11
Live Group Class
Live video meetings
3x per week, 2 weeks
3-7 learners per class
55 min
What's included
6 live meetings
5 hrs 30 mins in-class hoursHomework
1 hour per week. Students may be asked to complete illustrations or original sentences at home that they may not have been able to finish during class time. Each student works at a different pace, and some may be more comfortable having the opportunity to finalize their tasks at home. The goal is to provide students with sufficient practice to instill confidence as they work towards mastery, and allow them to create clear and helpful reference lists for home use. This homework is encouraged, but optional.Class Experience
US Grade 2 - 5
With a warm, encouraging environment, I welcome students to learn, connect, and grow in my classroom as they gain new skills and acquire necessary tools to be confident and successful learners. I support your student’s needs, while encouraging them to explore their own unique potential. Homophones can be tricky, confusing, and maybe even a little scary. This fun, interactive class is designed to help young writers overcome the confusion of many of these commonly-misspelled word pairs. For example, students struggle with knowing the difference between ‘there, their, and they’re’ or ‘your and you’re.’ Using the wrong spelling can change the meaning of the sentence entirely. How are learners supposed to know when to use certain, commonly-misspelled homophones when they all sound alike? With specific instruction, examples, lots of modeling, group activities, and loads of hands-on practice, students will learn to identify, spell, and correctly utilize homophones in their writing. I use an original slide show I share on the screen to instruct, model, and demonstrate, and worksheets I designed for this course to allow students to practice and apply what they are learning. Each class, students will be guided through mini-lessons, participate in group discussions and activities on the screen, and have plenty of guided and independent practice to aid mastery of homophones in a supportive and encouraging environment. We will begin each session with review of what we have learned, the introduction of new homophone pairs, learn their meanings and spellings, practice identifying and using homophones in sentences correctly, illustrate confusing word pairs, and practice independent writing activities using prompts to enhance the skills of the day with support from the teacher. Every student will have the opportunity to share their ideas and work in each class, ask questions, and conference with the teacher during independent writing practice. After this class, homophones will no longer be scary, and students will have a greater understanding of where and when to use different homophones. We will review each day to help ensure mastery of what is being learned. ***The first 3 days, we will focus on some of the most frequently and most-commonly misspelled sets of homophones as we explicitly learn the meanings, spellings, and correct use of these words. With lots of practice, students will understand the difference of each of the words and be able to use them correctly. *Day 1 Students will learn what homophones are, explore many different pairs of homophones they may or may not know, and learn to use ‘there, their, they’re’ correctly. *Day 2 Review and learn to use ‘to, too, and two’ correctly. *Day 3 Review and learn to use ‘your - you’re’ and ‘it’s - its’ correctly. Day 4 Review and practice working with 24 common and often confusing sets of homophones such as ‘pear-pair, bear-bare, know-no, not-knot, blue-blew, threw-through, buy-by, here-hear, hole-whole’ and several more. Students will illustrate several of these pairs, and use them in original sentences as they create homophone reference pages to keep. Day 5 Review and illustrate more sets of homophones and correctly use them in original sentences to create helpful reference pages. Day 6 Review, practice correctly using homophones on a larger scale with group mastery activities, and a written response to a prompt using homophones correctly. Fun Group Review Game! - It’s a class favorite!! :)
Learning Goals
With specific instruction, examples, lots of modeling, group activities, and loads of hands-on practice, students will learn to identify, spell, and correctly utilize homophones in their writing.
Other Details
Supply List
Worksheets provided in the classroom to be printed at home Notebook or lined paper Pencil with eraser Colored pencils or markers or crayons
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
No additional sources are required.
Meet the teacher
Teacher expertise and credentials
Master's Degree in Education from University of South Florida
I have a Masters degree in Elementary Education, years of experience teaching 2nd and 3rd grade in the classroom, and years of experience teaching language arts and ESL on line to more than 1,000 students of varying ages. I have a passion for teaching, and a love of writing and reading in my free time.
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