An Indoor Eucational Play Activity
Homonyms are words that sound the same, but are really different. Here’s some fun that will improve your children’s word and spelling skills at the same time.
Materials Required:
- Your times
Instructions:
Homonyms are words that sound the same, but are really different. Here’s some fun that will improve your children’s word and spelling skills at the same time.
In this game, you give clues to your child about the two homonyms you’re thinking of … and see if he or she can guess the words!
Here are some examples:
“I’m thinking of a word that describes what a bandage helps do for a cut and the back of your foot.” (Heal/heel.)
“I’m thinking of a word that’s a letter and a drink.” (T /tea.)
“I’m thinking of a word that has to do with the post office and with people who aren’t women.” (Mail/male.)
Here are some more to get your game started.
Ant/aunt
Bored/board
Bear/bare
Beat/beet
Hole/whole
Meet/meat
Reel/real
Rose/rows
Sea/see
Two/too
Use/ewes
Way/weigh
And you can even add the spelling of these words into the game. I know that from playing this game in our family that it has made a huge difference to our children’s word knowledge and spelling skills.
This Children’s Indoor Play Activity is sponsored by Zane Education – the home of online Visual Learning. Visual Learning is a method of online learning that includes the use of online subtitled educational and curriculum-based video that caters for virtually all LearningStyles. Virtually all children prefer Visual Learning as it makes study much more interesting and fun. It is the ideal online education solution for disinterested students, special needs education and children that you’d like to see improve their reading and literacy skills as they study the same curriculum topics studied by their classmates and peers. Zane Education also provides interactive online quizzesfor each curriculum topic and much more.
