Wonderscape
Commonly Confused Homophones
This program meets Common Core 4th grade language standards by introducing and differentiating between commonly confused homophones, such as to/too/two and there/their/they're. Detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video, as well as...
Curated OER
The Many Meanings of Cool
A very neat word with multiple meanings is the center of attention in a fun musical video. The Read Between The Lions team of Sierra, Lionel, Leona, Cleo, and Theo get together to sing a song defining the word cool. Kids will sing...
Curated OER
Telling a Story
Junior high and high schoolers watch a short video about effective storytelling strategies. As they take a virtual field trip to the Hans Christian Andersen story hour in Central Park, learners differentiate between writing a story and...
Curated OER
Homophones
Just because words sound alike doesn't mean they have the same definition. After viewing a short video about homophones, learners come up with their own list of homophones.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Issues With Homophones
This lesson focuses on homophones; it defines the term and then discusses and provides examples for 9 word sets as follows: sea, bare, there, site, know, two, plain, be, and eye. Real Player is required.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commonly Confused Words
This lesson focuses on a list of commonly confuses words such as as/like, less/fewer, further/farther, than/then, that/which, amount/number, etc. It explains the differences in the meanings of the words and how to use them correctly....
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Homophones
This TurtleDiary interactive video lesson [1:27] features information about homophones. Games and worksheets are provided to supplement this homophones lesson
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Issues With Homophones
This lesson focuses on homophones: words that sound the same, but have different meanings. First it explains the differences between homonyms and homophones; then it looks at a list of commonly confused homophones, their meanings, and,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Word With Multiple Meanings
This lesson focuses on determining the correct meaning of a word with multiple meanings. First it explains why words in English have multiple meanings. Then using the word "bear," it provides steps and examples for how to determine the...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Homophones: To, Too, Two
This video focuses on the definition and proper usage for the homophones to, too, and two. [2:35]
Other
Mrs. Silva's Elementary Antics: Multiple Meaning Words
This video illustrates common multiple meaning words. [8:29]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: To, Two, and Too
Another troublesome triad, 'to', 'two', and 'too'. Let's set these` frequently-confused words straight!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: There, Their, and They're
This is one of the most frequently-confused trios in the English language. Follow along, and learn to suss out the differences between these three words.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Choosing Between Its and It's
David and Paige explain the meaning of two English words that look and sound very similar but act very different: _its_ and _it's_.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bare/bear, Allowed/aloud, Advice/advise, and Break/brake
We've got a bunch going all at once, here: learn to tell the differences between these eight frequently-confused words.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Affect and Effect
TL;DW: affect's a verb and effect's a noun. But there's a little more to it than that.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Compliment/complement and Desert/dessert
How do you tell the difference between 'compliment' and 'complement', 'desert' and 'dessert'? We'll show you!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Hear/here and Accept/except
Learn to tell when to use 'hear' instead of 'here' and vice versa; you'll learn how to do the same with 'accept' and 'except'.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commonly Confused Words: Lesson 2
This lesson goes over similar words that are commonly confused. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Commonly Confused Words."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Issues With Homophones
This lesson goes over homophones that are commonly confused.