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book called Good Driving, Amelia Bedelia about a girl who gets very confused by
homophones. Encourage students to listen for the homophones while you are reading the
story. Upon completion of the story, have the students share the homophones they heard
in the book Good Driving, Amelia Bedelia.
Estimated Time: 20 minutes
Work Session:
Tell the students that they will now begin their work session showing their understanding
of various homophones. Explain each tiers activity and disperse the students accordingly.
Tier 1: Have students begin by playing a homophone matching game. They can then
choose two words that are homophones for each other. Have the students fold a piece of
paper in half. On one half of the paper, tell students to write a sentence using one of the
words and draw a picture to illustrate the sentence. On the other half have students do the
same with its matching homophone. Students may complete several of these depending
on time constraints. Upon completion of the lesson, display these homophone sheets
around the classroom with commentary.
Tier 2: Give students the fact sheet with various homophones and their definitions for a
resource. Have students write several jokes or draw comic strips using homophones.
Allow the students to share the jokes or comic strips with their friends in their group.
After the lesson, put all the jokes and comic strips together in a book to go in the
classroom library. Allow the students to think of a title.
Tier 3: Give students the fact sheet with various homophones and their definitions and
several Amelia Bedelia books for resources. Tell the students that they will write their
own version of an Amelia Bedelia story today. Brainstorm with the students several
situations in which Amelia Bedelia may be involved. Some of these situations may be
Amelia Bedelia as a veterinarian, Amelia Bedelia plans a wedding, Amelia Bedelia plays
football, Amelia Bedelia goes shopping, etc. Have the students begin to write a story
about Amelia Bedelia using at least 4 homophone combinations that confuse her
throughout their story. Allow students to spend several additional days on this activity as
a result of curriculum compacting. The students could edit and revise their stories. They
could then publish them into a book that could be placed into the classroom library.
Estimated Time: 35 minutes
Closing:
Play the homophone game on the website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/recognising/homophones/game.shtml.
After playing a couple games, allow a few students from each tier to share their products
with the class.
Estimated Time: 10 minutes
Evaluation
The students will be evaluated using a checksheet. The teacher will use the checksheet to
assess whether or not the students have met the objective related to the standard. The
teacher will also note any additional information on the checksheet.
Connection to Gifted Learners
Due to the mixed-ability levels within the classroom, this lesson seeks to provide a
differentiated lesson that is appropriate for all students. Often times, gifted students are
not challenged because lessons are designed to meet the needs of the average student.
However, Clark points out that gifted students often have, flexible thought processes and
a high level of language development and verbal ability (As cited in Reis & Small,
2005). Through providing students with an alternative activity during the work session,
this lesson looks to provide these students with challenging work that will continue to
develop their abilities. Gifted students also show an advanced ability at developing
original ideas (As cited in Reis & Small, 2005). Through the students creation of Amelia
Bedelia stories, they are able to piggyback off of an idea and begin to add their own
original ideas to create their own unique story. This lesson hopes to keep gifted students
interested in the material and having fun learning through a challenging lesson that more
appropriately meets their academic needs.
Homophone Matching
theyre
their
flour
flower
too
two
hare
hair
through
threw
see
sea
bored
board
new
knew
Examples
allowed
aloud
bear
bare
bored
board
break
brake
find
fined
flower
flour
hair
hare
here
hear
heal
heel
hire
higher
hour
Homophones
Examples
our
maid
made
new
knew
one
won
pear
pair
piece
peace
plain
plane
pour
poor
see
sea
shore
sure
sight
site
stairs
stares
steal
steel
they're
their
there
through
threw
to
too
two
waste
waist
Homophones
Examples
week
weak
where
wear
whether
weather
which
witch
whole
hole
worn
warn
would
wood
write
right
Homophone Checklist
Students
Abbie
Jacob
Madelyn
Santiago
Keiry
Ryan
Landon
Charles
Michelle
Philip
Lora
Mauricio
Jasmine
Mohamed
Trent
Emily
Isabelle
Lyle
Abigail
Lily
Reference
Reis, S.M. & Small, M.A. (2005). Characteristics of diverse gifted learners. In Karnes,
F.A. & Bean, S.M. (Eds.), Methods and materials for teaching the gifted. (pps. 335). Waco, TX: Prufrock Press.