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Vocabulary Lesson for Julie the Rockhound
Homographs are words that sound like other words, but they are spelled differently and they have different meanings. The book, “Julie the Rockhound,” is full of wordplay, including the homographs, “quartz” and “quarts.”
There are 10 incorrect “homographs” in the story below, “Rocky Digs Homographs.”
(One example is the word “nose” in the first line. The correct word should be “knows.”)
Read the story, then find and list each incorrect homograph and the word that should replace it. Write a definition for the correct word and for its incorrect homograph.
(Example: “Knows” is a verb that means to understand or recognize. “Nose” is a noun - the part of the face that can smell. )
When you are done, have some fun by illustrating the story.
Rocky Digs Homographs!
As soon as he sniffs something interesting in the ground, Rocky the Rockhound nose what to dew.
First, he shows Julie the spot by flopping onto his back. Then he roles from side to side. His tale wags, his fir flies in the wind, and he whales with joy.
He doesn’t paws. He digs a deep whole in the ground. If he does not find the treasure, he digs a long roe. Julie watches her dog dig.
Sum of the treasures that he finds are sparkly quartz crystals. Rocky lets Julie collect these. But he keeps his favorite treasures, such as smelly old bones!
It’s fun to make homograph stories. Can you think of 5 words that have homographs?
Can you make them into a story?
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