homonyms

Photographs and simple text introduce homophones, words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

Photographs and simple text introduce homophones, words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

Confused by the different meanings of words that sound alike, a little girl imagines such unusual sights as "a king who rained" and "the foot prince in the snow.".

Pictures illustrate the meanings of such homonyms as stairs and stares, peal and peel, and merry and marry.

Using more than forty pairs of homonyms, relates in verse how the bear, deer, horse, bee, hare, gnu, ewe, witch, tern, and "me" set sail to see the sea.

Clever Aunt Ant, having moved to the zoo, describes the quirky animal behavior she observes by speaking in homophones, from the moose who loved mousse to the fox who blew blue bubbles.

A collection of sixty riddles making use of homophones, or homonyms, words that are pronounced the same but have different spellings.

Contains a concise dictionary of homonyms published in the English language with simplified meanings and phonetic symbols.

Readers engage with a key language arts concept in a fun and relatable way. Colorful photographs help explain homophone examples within the context of a familiar environment and support accessible content. The easy-to-follow text makes vocabulary building and spelling exciting for beginning and reluctant readers.

Pictures illustrate the difference in meaning of such homonyms as whale and wail, fairy and ferry, and sell and cell.