Wheeler's Elementary Speller • Lessons 128 & 129
Homophones
One/Won
&
Pain/Pane
• Shelley's Nature Lyric • Page 69
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★ LESSONS 128 & 129 • HOMOPHONES (ONE / WON • PAIN / PANE) • SHELLEY LYRIC
MEMORY LESSON • 26PX STANDARD LINES
1. Words Pronounced Alike: “one” vs. “won” (Lesson 128)
Homophones /wʌn/ • 26px Standard Lines
one
(/wʌn/): The first number; single person or object. (
“seven times one to-day”
).
won
(/wʌn/): Gained victory; earned through labor or study. (
“learning must be won”
).
Jean Ingelow • John Gay • Transcribe from dictation:
“I am seven times one to-day.” • “Learning by study must be won.”
1. What do you say of a person who was first in a race?
Ans: “He _____________________ the race.”
2. What is the first number with which we begin to count?
Ans: “We begin to count with the number _____________________.”
2. Memory Lesson: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Nature Lyric (Lesson 129)
Memorize & Write from Memory • 4 Standard Lines
“The whispering waves were half asleep,
The clouds were gone to play,
And on the woods and on the deep
The smile of Heaven lay.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
3. Homophone Study: “pain” vs. “pane” • Contextual Dictation
Homophones /peɪn/ • 26px Standard Lines
pain
(/peɪn/): Bodily ache, suffering, or grief. Digraph
ai
.
pane
(/peɪn/): A sheet of glass in a window frame. Silent
-e
.
Supply
pain
or
pane
:
“Not a shade of _____________________ or ill dims the bright smile of Nature's face.”
Supply
pain
or
pane
:
“See! there's a bit of sunshine through the _____________________.”
Wheeler's Law: Use
pain
and
pane
in sentences of your own: