2.  PA Standards Second Grade:  1.1 Learning to Read Independently › D. Demonstrate a rich listening and speaking vocabulary, the ability to understand (receptive) and use (expressive) words to acquire and convey meaning  1.2 Reading Critically in All Content Areas › B. Identify a variety of media to gain information (e.g., computer, tape recorder, television and recorded media) › NET’S Technology Standards 1,3, 4

3.  Students will be placed into their regular groups of three people and each come up with one compound word. In the group they will pick one compound word to write on the board.  The teacher will then review the definition of a contraction with the students, and have them give several examples.

5.  A homophone is two words that sound the same but have different spelling and meanings.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0VpP7 VxtYg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0VpP7 VxtYg

6.  Red - Read  Buy – By  Cent – Sent  For – Four  Some – Sum  To – Two  Hour – Our  Pair – Pear  See - Sea  Wood – Would  Ate – Eight  Board – Bored  Plain – Plane  Hey – Hay  One – Won  Maid - Made

7.  The teacher will pass a bingo card out to each of the students.  Each card will have multiple homophones on it that the students just reviewed  The teacher will call off a homophone and use it in a sentence  Example: “Miss Pirrone READ the book to the class” or “The apple is RED”

8.  http://www.havefunteaching.com/works heets/language/homophone/homopho nes-worksheet.pdf http://www.havefunteaching.com/works heets/language/homophone/homopho nes-worksheet.pdf