It is written by Gene Barretta. It is a cute story about a deer's Aunt Ant and she writes a letter to him that starts off Dear Deer,..... I bet you get the storyline! So much fun and the kids loved it! We read it together and then picked out favorite parts. We discussed how the author used two or more sets of homophones on one set of pages. We "noticed" that the pictures went along with what each homophone meant and how clever the author was to write a story like this.
Now for the CHALLENGE! Yes, we love a challenge. The kids got to either decide if they wanted to work with a partner or by themselves. (Easy way to stick in STUDENT CHOICE from our evaluation model!) They had to pick one or two sets of homophones and write a page like the author did in the story. To add a little higher challenge for my top kids, they had to write more than one page. Most of them divided their paper into four and came up with four great ideas! We shared them and the kids rolled laughing at their amazing work! Here are samples!
This was the first time I did this activity, but it goes in the KEEPER pile! Completely engaging for the kids and lots of fun.
We also have been working on prefix and suffix. We are great at identifying if it is a prefix or suffix, but we are struggling with what different prefixes or suffixes mean. We made this flip book to help us practice.
On the inside they had to sort a list of words that I had on the smart board and then they had to add some of their own. Very easy to do and was a simple grade!
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