Learning objective :

1. Learning objective: Today’s objective is to complete sentences using correct homophone pairs.

2. What do you already know? Take out one pencil. We won the game.

3. Concept • Homophones sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings • Example: 1. I went by themall to buy a dress. 2. I can see the sea from my window. • Non-Examples: 3. Today I will go to the store. 4. I see the look on your face.

4. Importance • Help with understanding what we are reading. • Helps with spelling and making word choices in our writing that make sense. • Also, helps us prepare for the state test.

5. Skill • Step 1- Read the sentence • Step 2- Ask yourself which word(s) would complete the sentence • Step 3- Use context clues to select the correct word to complete the sentence • Step 4- Read the sentence to make sure it makes sense.

6. Model • The boy was ________ from not eating all ________. (weak, week) • _________ car is over _________. (their, there)

7. Practice • 1. If you don’t ______ your library book, you will be ________. (fined, find) • If you don’t find your library book, you will be fined

8. Practice • 2. The _______ kite _______ away. (blew, blue) • The blue kite blew away.

9. Practice • 3. I ______ a book with a ______ cover. (read, red) • I read a book with a red cover.

10. Closure • 1. What did we identify today? • 2. What is a homophone? • 3. What homophones go in this sentence: • I have _________ books _____ my friend. (four, for) • 4. Why is it important to learn homophones?