This illustrating multiple meaning worksheet has 2nd grade students circle the meaning of bat, bark and duck in each sentence and draw a picture of it. An answer key is included to make checking quick.
The Matching Multiple Meaning Worksheet helps 2nd graders use sentence context to match bold homonyms like bat, clip, and check to the right meaning. Answer key included — an easy, no-prep context-clues activity.
This L.2.4 Second Grade Common Core Lesson includes L.2.4 Worksheets, L.2.4 Activities, L.2.4 Assessment, and L.2.4 Poster.
Same word, double the fun
Second graders learn that one word can have two totally different meanings. A bat can fly in a cave, or you can swing it at a ball! A bark can come from a dog or cover a tree. Kids learn to use context clues, the words around a tricky word, to figure out which meaning makes sense. They also meet homophones, like bear and bare, which sound the same but are spelled differently. The click moment comes when kids laugh at a joke because they finally get the double meaning.
Homonyms are made for jokes, drawings and detective work.
Give kids a word like "bat" and have them fold a paper in half. They draw one meaning on each side and write a sentence for each. Drawing makes the two meanings easy to keep apart.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withIllustrating Multiple Meaning WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Read a sentence like "The pitcher poured lemonade" and think aloud: "Pitcher could be a baseball player... but poured and lemonade are my clues! It must be a jug." Then kids try the next one with a partner.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withL.2.4 Second Grade Common Core LessonCommon Core LessonsOpen it →Show a homonym and two pictures, and kids point to the meaning that fits the sentence you read. A quick round each day builds the habit of checking context.
Why it works: pulling an answer out of memory makes it stick far better than rereading it, one of the strongest findings in learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withMatching Multiple Meaning WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Teacher favorites right now: Illustrating Multiple Meaning Worksheet, Matching Multiple Meaning Worksheet and L.2.4 Second Grade Common Core Lesson.
A homonym is a word that is spelled and sounds the same but has a different meaning. Bat, bark, ring and fair are common examples. Second graders use the other words in the sentence to choose the right meaning.
Homonyms are spelled and sound the same, like bat and bat. Homophones sound the same but are spelled differently, like bear and bare. Many 2nd grade lessons teach them side by side.
Bat, bark, ring, light, fly, park and bank are great starters. Each one has two meanings kids already know.
Tell homonym jokes, or ask your child to draw both meanings of a word. Point them out in books and ask, "Which meaning is this one?"
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