Homophones

Homophones are tricky, tricky words for our first grade friends!  When students are learning to write  they often times write the sounds they hear and then look at the words to see if they "look right".   As students' reading and writing vocabularies have been expanding we have noticed something interesting ... they can spell words different ways and they both look right.  How can that be?  Aaahhhh... it is those tricky homophones!  We can write the word plane or plain, both are spelled right but they don't mean the same thing!  Students worked on creating homophone books to help them remember what each spelling means.  One resource we used was a fabulous book called "Dear Deer" 

The book has many examples of homophones and uses them in context to help with understanding.  Take a look at the examples of our homophone writing.