Subject: ELA (English Language Arts)
Lesson Length: 30 - 45 mins
Topic: Homographs
Brief Description: Students will learn about homographs and create their own comics to illustrate common homographs.
Know Before You Start: This is an introductory lesson about homographs.
Comic 1
Comic 2
Hook:
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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.
Activity:
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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.
Closure:
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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.
Differentiation:
- 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.
Resources:
- Comics to print or display: Comic 1, Comic 2.
- Homograph Cards.
Suggested Content Packs:
Around the Home
Sports
The Laboratory
Beach
