Homograph Quiz

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

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Choose the correct meaning of the underlined word.

The wind is blowing hard.

• turn the stem (rhymes with find)

• moving air (rhymes with pinned)

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CCSS.L.5.4A

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)

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CCSS.L.5.4A

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)

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

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

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4C

choose the correct picture to the sentence.

I saw a bat in the cave.

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• 
• 

choose the correct picture to the sentence.

Write a letter to your mom.

• 
• 
• 

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CCSS.W.5.2A

CCSS.W.5.4

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

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

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4C

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

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CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4