Homographs

true or false:

Homographs are words that look the same but have more than one meaning, and sometimes more than one pronunciation. For example, there is an animal called a “bat”, and there is also a “bat” that baseball players use to hit the ball.

• True

• False

What is a homograph?

• a noun

• a word that is spelled differently

• a word that means the same as another

• a word that has the same spelling but different meanings

When you see a homograph in a text, how can you find out what it means?

• spell it backwards

• using context clues

• crying for help

Read the sentence below and choose the homograph that best fits both sentences.

The edge of the river, or a place where you store your money.

• Piggy

• Bank

• Edge

What is the meaning of the homograph being used in this sentence?

He had to wear a tie for his sister's wedding.

• 
• 

Choose the correct meaning of the underlined word. I have to wind my clock.

• turn the stem (rhymes with find)

• moving air (rhymes with pinned)

Choose the correct meaning of the underlined word.

The singer made a low bow to the audience.

• decorative ribbon (rhymes with so)

• bend at the waist (rhymes with how)

Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings, and may be pronounced differently. choose the correct homograph for each clue.

When a broadcast is made as it is happening, or the opposite of dead.

• live

• dead

• online

• alive

Identify the homograph in the following sentence: The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

• sail

• strong

• wind

• was

Identify the homograph in the following sentence: She shed a tear when she saw the sad movie.

• shed (a small building in the garden)

• tear (liquid from the eye)

• tear

• tear (to rip)