HOMOPHONES
Rhymes & Assonance
silent letters
prefixes & suffixes
What in the world?
100

I once herd that Pirates lived in Kimberley. 



Can you spot the incorrect homophone? 

HEARD

100

Can you come up with 4 rhymes for the word....

HAT

cat, bat, rat, flat.... 

100

SILENT B


spell the word Katie gives you.

BOMB

100

PREFIX Riddle: 

If you COVER something with a sheet, what happens when you take the sheet off?

UNCOVER

UN MEANS NOT - DOING IT IN REVERSE

100

True or false, 


Sea snakes can breathe through their skin.

TRUE


For example, the Hydrophis cyanocinctus has been found to breathe through the top of its own head. It has a small hole and collection of blood vessels at the top of its head for picking up oxygen from the seawater and sending it to the reptile's brain while it moves underwater.

200

I no the answer is 7. 



Can you spot the incorrect homophone?

KNOW!

200

Finish Katie's rhyming couplet poem....


There once lived a beast who liked to eat, 

he had a small head and very small feet?

200

SILENT H


SPELL THE WORD KATIE GIVES YOU

GHOST

200

SUFFIX RIDDLE: 

Yesterday I went on a walk, so I did what?

Walked.


-ed means in the past

200

TRUE OR FALSE


YOU BREATHE USING BOTH NOSTRILS

FALSE!

When we breathe in and out of our nose during the day, one nostril does most of the work at a time, with the duties switching every several hours. This "nasal cycle" is dictated by the same autonomic nervous system that regulates heart rate, digestion, and other unconscious bodily functions and is the reason why—when our nose gets stuffed up—it does so one nostril at a time.

300

Their is a basketball game going on over there. 


Can you spot the incorrect homophone?

There - a place

Their - ITS SOMEONE ELSES!!!!!!

they're - a short form, sneaky way to say THEY ARE

300

FIND 5 RHYMES FOR THE WORD....


LOOK

took, book, shook, nook, Brooke, snook, hook, crook

300

SILENT W


SPELL THE WORD KATIE GIVES YOU

WHOLE

300

PREFIX RIDDLE:

He didn't appear anymore!!!

He, disappeared. 


Dis means away, separate, not. 

300

TRUE OR FALSE


Rabbits can't puke.

TRUE.

Unlike cats or other animals that can cough up hairballs when they digest too much fur and other indigestible materials, rabbits are incapable of spewing. Their digestive system only goes one way, so the furry critters swallow plenty of roughage, which keeps things moving in the right direction.


400

You have to urn enough money in order to be able to buy the bike. You shouldn't have crashed your last one into Mom's planting earn. 


Can you spot the incorrect homophone? 

URN - A PLANTER


EARN - MONEY, HONEY!!

400

Can you spot the assonance? 


Each day I eat my ear in the East window. 

THE EA SOUND!

400

SILENT C


SPELL THE WORDS KATIE GIVES YOU

SCISSORS 

400

SUFFIX RIDDLE:


I want to go get a baked good. 

bakery 


ery means a place of work


400

TRUE OR FALSE:


Cotton Candy was invented by a cotton farmer.

FALSE:

IT WAS INVENTED BY A DENTIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

scandal. 

500

I cannot except your answer. You are simply incorrect. Their is no better way to tell you this but, your fired. 


WHAT HOMOPHONES ARE INCORRECT?!

accept - to understand 


THEIR - NO!! ITS THERE.

500

You have 2 minutes to write a poem about Headwaters. 


GO!

????????????????????

500
SILENT D


SPELL THE WORD KATIE GIVES YOU

HANDSOME

500

PREFIX RIDDLE: 


The slaves had been taken in by the rich homeowner. What happened to the slaves? 

they were enslaved. 


en means in, within. 

500
What vowel is the most popular? 

E


"E" is the most common letter and appears in 11 percent of all english words.

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