Homographs With Different Meanings

Read the sound guides aloud before students write homograph sentences. Keep the meaning box in view for the look alike sheet, and review any pair students mix up.

Write a sentence for each way to say 10 homographs like object, desert and produce. Homographs are spelled the same but differ in meaning, and sometimes in sound, like dove (DUV, a bird) and dove (DOHV, jumped in headfirst). The directions on the page read: Each word can be said two ways, with a different meaning for each. Write one sentence for each way of saying it. Use the meaning given, and use both lines for your sentence. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade homophones and homographs, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Stationery, with er, is writing paper and envelopes. Stationary, with ar, means not moving.

Each word gives a sound guide with its meaning, such as TEER for a drop from the eye and TAIR for to rip. Students write one sentence for each sound.

Counsel means advice, and a council is a group that decides things. In Eminent, Imminent and Other Look-Alikes, the city council votes on a skate park.