Sound Waves Spelling
Sound
of
the
Week
All students from Pre-primary to Year 7 will be
studying the phoneme /i/. Students may also
investigate cvc (consonant, vowel, consonant)
words, rhyming words and homonyms.
Did you know???
Pronunciation: How to say the sound
Homonym traces back to the Greek words
homos, meaning “same,” and onuma,
meaning “name.” So a homonym is sort of
like two people who have the same name:
called the same thing but different. A
homonym can be a word that sounds the
same as something else — like by (near) and
buy (purchase) — or it can be spelled exactly
the same way and pronounced differently —
like minute (unit of time) and minute (tiny).
Lower your jaw a little way.
Stretch your lips out into a small smile.
Press the sides of your tongue outwards onto
your teeth.
There are two types of homonyms:
Homograph : two words are homographs if
they are spelled the same way but differ in
meaning (e.g. fair).
Briefly turn your voice on.
Chant and Action
In the igloo – i, i, i.
Hold up arms around body and shiver as though
cold.
What is a homonym?
A homonym is a word that is said or
spelt the same way as another word
but has a different meaning. “Write”
and “right” is a good example of a
pair of homonyms.
Homophone : two words are homophones if
they are pronounced the same way, but differ
in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and
bear).