At a Glance:
| Grades: | 5 |
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| Subject: | ELA (English Language Arts) |
| Topic: | Homographs |
| Lesson Length: | 30 - 45 mins |
Standards / Framework:
What will students learn in this activity?
Students will learn about homographs and create their own comics to illustrate common homographs.
What should students know before this activity?
This is an introductory lesson about homographs.
Comic 1
Comic 2
How can teachers introduce this lesson?
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Read and discuss sample Comic 1.
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How was the word “bat” used differently in each panel?
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What context clues helped you determine the meanings of both words?
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How did the comic help illustrate the meanings of both words?
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Share sample Comic 2 with the class.
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Ask students to discuss with a partner the meanings of the word “waves” as used in the comic.
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What context clues were used to determine the meanings of the words?
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Explain to students that sometimes homographs have different pronunciations as well, e.g., moped, evening, bass, etc.
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Have students brainstorm other homographs.
What will students do?
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Print and cut apart the homograph pairs provided or create your own.
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Place the cards in a container.
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Ask students to pull a homograph card from the container and illustrate the pair of homographs in a comic.
How can teachers wrap up the lesson?
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Project and share the completed comics.
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Discuss how context clues are used to determine the meaning of both words.
How can teachers differentiate this activity?
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
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Provide students with a printed copy of the sample comic.
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Provide students with sentence frames as needed.
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Allow students to choose their own homographs to illustrate in their comic.
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