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School SCRABBLE® Activities: Issue #14

Educators and parents have been asking us for more School SCRABBLE® activities. Here they are! Every two weeks, a new page will be posted. We welcome your questions and suggestions. Send them to Cindy McCaffery.

More Homographs

March 26 - April 6, 2001

Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and different origins. Ask students to find the two meanings of the following words. Answers are in parentheses. Challenge students to use their dictionaries to find the origin of both meanings.

Clip

(cut, fasten)

[cartoon of handprint]

[cartoon of palm tree]

Firm

(solid or hard, business)

Launch

(boat, start out)

Palm

(tropical tree, inside of hand)

Sock

(foot covering, punch)

Steer

(male cattle, guide)

Stoop

(bend down, porch or outside steps)

Strand

(length of thread, leave helpless)

Tart

(sour tasting, small fruit pie)

Vice

(bad habit, clamp)


Remind students that when they play the SCRABBLE® game they should try to remember whether or not a word is a homograph and what possible endings might be added to the end of the word.

Suggest that students make a separate section in their word journals where they can list homographs and their meanings.

[cartoon of journal]

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