Segue Institute for Learning
Activity
Name
Materials
Needed
Homophone Win, Lose or Draw
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Projector
Homophone word pair slips (provided)
Container to hold slips
Timer or clock
Whiteboard and markers
Procedure
Project the following image and ask “What do you notice about the words in this
word splash?”
Warm-up
(5 minutes)
Food for Thought Activity- Created by Academic Coaches 2014-15
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Explain that the words in the word splash are examples of homophones (words
that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different
meanings). Ask students if they can think of any other examples of
homophones.
Divide group into two teams and explain that we will play a game called
Homophone Win, Lose or Draw in which students will have to draw
representations of homophones for their team to guess.
Each team must pick who the first drawer will be. Each person on the team
should take a turn being the drawer.
Act-up
(20
minutes)
Pick one team to go first and have the drawer pick a slip of paper out of the
container. The drawer must draw the homophone pair that they see on the paper.
For example, if their slip said “sail/sale” they might draw a sailboat and a store
price tag.
The drawer has 30 seconds to draw while their team guesses what they are
drawing. If their team guesses correctly, they win one point.
Switch teams and play another round. The team with the most points at the end
of the game is the winner.
To make this more competitive you could have both teams draw at the same time
but at opposite ends of the room (so they don’t see each other). The point would
be awarded to whichever team guesses correctly first if played this way.
Which homophones were the hardest to draw? Why? Which were the hardest to
Circle-up guess? Why?
(5 minutes)
Food for Thought Activity- Created by Academic Coaches 2014-15
Segue Institute for Learning
knight
night
mail
male
pear
pair
right
write
tale
tail
week
weak
flew
flu
sun
son
bye
buy
jeans
genes
eight
ate
close
clothes
I
eye
one
won
Food for Thought Activity- Created by Academic Coaches 2014-15