Homophones

Today I was teaching a lesson on homophones and going through examples of homophones. I was reading and writing different pairs of words and asking if they were homophones. One example I wrote down was the words flower and flour. A few students said “no those aren’t homophones.” I thought to myself, “oh great, I’m failing miserably at explaining this concept.” Until they read me the words and I learned that they pronounce the word flour the way we pronounce the word flat… so those to words are not homophones here. I keep realizing more and more that the way we speak English is not quite as universal as I like to think it is. I learned something today, hopefully the kids did too.