Congratulations on your purchaseof Really Good Stuff® SpanishHomophone Playing Cards—a fantasticway to play interactive games thatpractice Spanish homophones.

Homophones are pairs or groups ofwords that sound the same but havedifferent meanings and are spelleddifferently. Homophones are easilyconfused and, therefore, oftenmisspelled. By practicing these trickywords, students learn to focus on wordmeaning.

With Spanish Homophone PlayingCards, students with a generalknowledge of homophones—in the firstgrade, second grade, and beyond—can

play fun games that help them rememberthe meanings and spellings of commonhomophones they have alreadyencountered.

This set introduces 24 common Spanishhomophone pairs. Because manyhomophones in Spanish are verb formsthat depend on usage, it is importantthat students use each word in a sentenceduring play to demonstrate comprehension.For example, the verb haber has manyforms and some of those forms are partof homophone pairs: habría/abría, hay/¡ay!,haz/has.

Managing the Spanish HomophonePlaying Cards• Photocopy the Homophone Playing Cards

Key (side 2), which includes generalizeddefinitions of all the words. (The Keydoesn’t necessarily include everymeaning of a word, but encouragesstudents to explore meanings that arefamiliar to them.) The copied Key canserve as a handy reference during gameplay, especially when a given meaning isin dispute, and eliminates the need for adictionary during play. Laminate the Keyfor repeated use.

• Photocopy and cut out the games youwant to play from the Homophone CardGames page for every group or pair ofplayers. Laminate the game instructionsfor repeated use.

Introducing HomophonesExplore the two different meanings ofseveral pairs of homophones that arealready familiar to students. Then allow

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students to come up with their own homophone pairs, creating lists generated fromwhat they find in word hunts and in their own vocabularies.

Challenge students to use each homophone in a pair correctly in a sentence:

Yo encontré un tubo viejo. El niño no tuvo tiempo de terminar su tarea.Mi papá tuvo que arreglar el tubo.

Homophone Card GamesThese instructions for card games your students will love can be copied andlaminated (see Managing the Homophone Playing Cards). Keep the instructionsnearby during the game, along with the Homophone Playing Cards Key.

Homophone RummyTwo to six playersObject of the game: To use all the cards in your hand to make homophone pairsand go out first.1. Shuffle the deck and deal 7 cards to each player. (If working with two players,

deal 8 or 9 cards to each.) Turn over the top card and place it next to thedeck. This will be the discard pile.

2. All players check their hands for pairs of homophones and place the pairsface up on the table.

3. Go around the table and have the players name their pairs. Players get creditfor a pair only if they can give the meanings of both words or correctly useeach word in a sentence. (This rule applies throughout the game.) Anotherplayer may challenge the two meanings given for a pair, and the players mustuse the Homophone Playing Card Key to check it. If the player has given anincorrect meaning, that pair is removed from the game.

4. Choose who goes first. Player 1 either draws the showing (discarded) card ordraws from the deck, trying to make a homophone match with a card in hand.If Player 1 can make a pair, Player 1 lays down the pair, gives the homophones’meaning, and then discards. If not, Player 1 can only discard, and the turn isover; Player 2 take a turn.

5. Play continues until one player has no more cards in hand. All the playerscount their pairs. The winner is the player with the most pairs.

Other RulesAs players lay cards on the discard pile, they should leave the previous cardshowing. When a player wants to make a match by drawing a card that was not

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the last one discarded, all the cards must be picked up after it as well.The player must make a match using the first card picked up.

Variations:• Give two points for each homophone pair or just one point if the player

gives the correct meaning for one of the words but not the other. • Each player replenishes the cards in hand after every turn, bringing the

hand back up to seven (or eight or nine) cards. The game is over when thedeck runs out. Players count their pairs to determine the winner.

• Play the game in several rounds, keeping track of points from round toround. The winner is the player who reaches a score, such as 100, first.

Homophone ShuffleTwo or more playersAdditional materials: Lined paper folded lengthwise, pencil, dictionary1. The players write their names at the top of the columns on the folded

paper or sort grid. This will be a recording sheet. 2. Player 1 selects five or more homophone pairs and mixes up the cards.

Player 1 holds up the cards with the backs facing Player 2, and asksPlayer 2 to pick a card.

3. Player 2 picks a card, turns it over, and reads the word aloud. Player 2must say what the word means or use it in a sentence. If it is the correctmeaning of the word, Player 2 writes the word in the column under Player2’s name. Players can challenge the meaning given. If the answer is wrong,Player 2 does not get to write the word the column. If the playersdisagree on the meaning, they can look up the word.

4. Player 1 sorts and puts back the homophone pairs, and Player 2 takesa turn choosing pairs, shuffling them, and holding them up for thenext player.

5. The first player to fill every line in the column is the winner.

Homophone Playing Cards Key

s.= sustantivo adj.= adjetivov. = verbo prep. = preposición

exp. = expresión

arroyo s. Río pequeño arrollo v. Hacer un rollo con hiloasta s. Palo de la bandera hasta prep. El lugar a que llega algoazar s. Acaso, destino, por asar v. Guisar

casualidadbaca s. Sitio en donde se coloca vaca s. Hembra del toro

el equipaje en un autobúsbienes s. Fortuna, dinero vienes v. Del verbo venirbotar v. Tirar votar v. Hacer un voto con el

propósito de elegir a alguiencalló v. Del verbo callar cayó v. Del verbo caersecasar v. Contraer matrimonio cazar |v. Atrapar y matar un animal

para comérselocien s. 100 sien s. La frenteciento s. Número siento v. Del verbo sentir – percibir

sensacionescocer v. Cocinar coser v. Hacer un vestidohabría v. Del verbo haber abría v. Del verbo abrir hacía v. El pasado del verbo hacer Asía s. Un continentehay v. Del verbo haber ¡ay! exp. Expresión que indica

sorpresa o dolorhaz v. Mandato del verbo hacer has Del verbo haber “Tú has ido

varias veces a mi casa.”hecho adj. Maduro, completo echo v. Del verbo echar (lanzar)hierba s. Planta hierva v. Del verbo hervirhola s. Un saludo ola s. Onda que se forma en el en

el marhora s. División del tiempo ora s. Relacionada con la oraciónmesa s. Mueble o escritorio meza v. Del verbo mecerrayar v. Escribir rallar v. Desmenuzar una cosa con

el ralladorsumo adj. Supremo, muy elevado zumo s. Jugotubo s. Objeto cilíndrico hueco tuvo v. Del verbo tenervaso s. Vasija de vidrio para baso v. Poner algo sobre una base

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