From Here to There

From Here to There

Skill: Reading homophones

Players: Whole class 

Object: To line up using high-frequency homophones

Materials:

• 22 word cards: ate, eight, buy, by, for, four, know, no, one, won, hour, our, hear, here, right, write, to, too, two, their, there, they’re

How to Play

1. Photocopy and cut apart the word cards. Distribute one word card to each player. If necessary, have some children pair up (because there are only 22 cards). 

2. Call on children to read the word on their card and think about how they would use it in a sentence.

3. Randomly call out a word (see Materials box) and use it in a sentence. The player with that word card can get in line after saying the word, spelling it, and using it in another sentence. Then the player(s) with a homophone for that word reads it, spells it, uses it in a sentence, and gets in line. 

4. Collect the word cards after all children are in line.