Want to elevate your word study block? With these games and independent activities for Homophones with Long Vowels, word study can be more fun and engaging for our students in the Within Word Pattern stage! This bundle focuses on homophones, reviewing many of the common long-vowel patterns within the homophones and homographs (including long a, long e, long o, and r controlled vowels).

The download for each sort includes a partner game and an independent game (that can also be modified to play with a partner). The partner games found in Unit 7 include “make a match” board games and a “Connect 6” board game. The independent activity for each sort in Unit 7 is “Memory Match!,” a fun card game. It is my hope that these activities help you increase student engagement and personal teaching joy during word study, spelling, or word work. (Aligned to Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers Unit 7: Sorts 49-Sort 54)

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Whether you're looking for hands-on, engaging activities students can complete independently, partner games, centers, or ideas to spice up your small group lessons, these activities covering Long Vowel Homophones have done the creative thinking and planning for you! Versatility and consistency (not an oxymoron!) are built right in for you with all of the activities in the Unit 7 bundle having the same format, you won’t have to teach students how to play with each new word sort!

While these games and activities are aligned to Words Their Way, they can be used to complement any word study program or focus with your students. See the preview for detailed lists of the included words!

Sort Sets Included in the Unit 7 Bundle:

49: Long A Homophones

50: More Long A Homophones

51: Long E Homophones

52: Long I and Long O Homophones

53: R-Influenced O Homophones

54: Homographs

★ Partner Games ★

In the sort and match board games (sorts 49-53), students take turns drawing a card that displays a homophone and trying to match it with it's homophone pair on the game board. With themes like bacon and eggs, peanut butter and jelly, and milk and cookies, your students are sure to have a fun time learning about homophones!

✔ Teacher Directions

✔ Sorting Game Board

✔ Word Cards

✔ Student-Friendly Directions

✔ Recording Sheet

✔ Answer Key

In the Connect 6 game (sort 54), students take turns drawing cards with fill-in-the-blank sentences. Students choose the correct homograph to complete the sentence and cover it on the game board.

✔ Teacher Directions

✔ Game Board

✔ Sentence Cards

✔ Student-Friendly Directions

✔ Recording Sheet

✔ Answer Key

Each partner game involves friendly competition and a recording sheet that makes it easy to check that students understood the homophones and homographs being studied and to hold them accountable for staying on task.

★ Independent Activities ★

In the “Memory Match!” card games, students play a game of match with picture and word cards. Their goal is to find word/word, word/picture, or picture/picture matches that belong to the same homophone or homograph pair.

✔ Teacher Directions

✔ Word and Picture Playing Cards

✔ Student-Friendly Directions

✔ Recording Sheet

✔ Answer Key

* Everything comes in black and white and color versions!

Who are these games and activities for?

> > > These resources were developed with 3rd - 5th graders in mind, but could successfully be used in lower grades within small group lessons and with teacher guidance.

> > > These games and activities are designed for students in the late stages of Within Word Pattern. Students should have a firm grasp on various spelling patterns including CVCe, CVVC, less common long vowel patterns, r-controlled vowel patterns, dipthongs and ambiguous vowel pattern, and beginning & ending complex consonants and should be already familiar with many of the homophone pairs.

These activities provide a great way to add meaningful variety to your word study routine, keeping it fresh and interesting for students. With these activities, your word study block will be a time that students look forward to as they work to master these key spelling and word study concepts!

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