If You Were a Homonym or a Homophone

Word Fun

by Nancy Loewen, Sara Jean Gray (Illustrator)

If you were a homophone, you would be pronounced the same as another word, but you would have a different spelling and a different meaning. Learn the difference between these two tricky concepts.

Genres: Nonfiction, Picture Books, Childrens, Language

24 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Nancy Loewen grew up on a farm in southwestern Minnesota, surrounded by library books and cats. She's published more than 140 books for children. FOUR TO THE POLE (co-authored with polar explorer Ann Bancroft) and THE LAST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN were Minnesota Book Award finalists. Her WRITER'S TOOLBOX series received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers.

Nancy lives in Saint Paul and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. She has two adult children and a cat who sometimes bites her knees under the table as she writes.

Reviews

[Suzanne Lorraine Kunz Williams]

What a fun way to learn the what homonyms (words spelled the same that mean different things) and homophones (words that are spelled the same but mean different things) are. This whole series is highly recommended!

[Chardell]

Great story introducing homophones and homonym. It also has a small review of contractions for first grade. At the end of the story it has a great lesson on homophones and homonyms for the students to do.

[Hye Eun]

This book is very helpful when teaching children about homonyms. The examples are excellent and the illustration went along with the words well. We used this in first grade during word work time. They loved it and did well on the follow up activity about homonyms.