WHAT'S MITE MIGHT?

ACTIVITIES:

1. Choose 3 homophone riddles that are easy and 3 that are difficult. Ask your classmates the riddles and see if they can guess the answers. Write the riddles and answers out with a picture.

2. Make up your own homophone riddle. Draw a picture that will help give clues to the answer.

3. Make a "pair tree" full of homophone fruit. Start by drawing a tree trunk with branches on a large poster. Then list as many homophone pairs as you can. Make a fruit shaped card for each pair and print the homophones on the card Attach the cards to the branches and watch your tree grow!

4. Make a Word Game with pairs of matching homophones. Play it like concentration and have a classmate demonstrate how to do it.

5. Write a poem using as many homophones as you can. It may be silly or serious. These lines might help you get started: One day I heard, So I went to peek, A thundering herd, Coming over a peak.

 

                                               

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