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Grade 4 Reading & Writing · World 3: Meaning Maze · Level 19
Homographs and Multiple Meanings
Bass/bass, wound/wound, minute/minute, object/object; charge, current, scale: pick the meaning that fits.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 19
- Some words have more than one meaning. A scale can weigh things, cover a fish, or be notes on a piano!
- The other words in the sentence tell you which meaning fits. The vet put the puppy on the scale. That's the one for weighing!
- Homographs are spelled the same but said two ways. Often one way is a noun and the other is a verb, and the loud part moves.
- Read these two sentences. The desert is a dry, sandy place. To desert someone is to leave them alone.
- So read the whole sentence first, decide the meaning, and then you'll know how to say the word.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 4.L.V.3.a — Use context (e.g., definitions, examples, or restatements in text) to determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple- meaning words and phrases. (I)
- 4.L.V.3.b — Demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to their synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homographs. (I)