Vocabulary Builder Grade 4 - Homophones (Homonyms) - Skills & Activities

Sep 28, 2026

Uploaded by Kyle

Vocabulary Builder Grade 4 is a classroom-ready language program designed by educators and reading specialists to build strong vocabulary and language proficiency. Learners determine word meaning through word structure, sentence context, and structural changes, supported by clues, examples, and engaging audio-visual content. Targeted skills include homophones, antonyms, synonyms, homographs, compound words, easily confused words, figurative language, and prefixes and suffixes, supported by a Teacher Dashboard for tracking progress and generating reports.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages8

Reading Time20 min

AccessFree to download

Targeted Skills

Homophones (Homonyms)

Antonyms

Synonyms

Homographs

Teacher Dashboard

Student progress tracking

Report printing and summaries

Program Outline

Main menu units

Vocabulary Builder Grade 4 Vocabulary Builder Grade 4 Developed by teachers and reading specialists, Vocabulary Builder Grade 4 provides the strategies, skills, and individual word instructions your students need to develop strong language proﬁciency. The program teaches how to determine word meaning by analyzing word structure, sentence context and structural changes. Helpful clues and examples, along with exciting audio-visual content, ensure that students of all learning styles can use the software independently. Vocabulary Builder Grade 4 is an effective and engaging way to broaden vocabulary and language proﬁciency. Targeted Skills • Homophones (Homonyms) • Antonyms • Synonyms • Homographs • Compound Words • Easily Confused Words • Similes, Idioms & Proverbs • Preﬁxes & Sufﬁxes Teacher Dashboard The Teacher Dashboard tracks student progress throughout each program and records the percentage score for every activity completed. This feature provides an overview of how well a student is progressing and allows the teacher to identify strengths and weaknesses. • Records students' results automatically as they work. • Prints reports quickly and easily for sharing with parents and staff. • Provides summary reports by subject or detailed reports by activity. • Allows teachers to print reports for individual students or an entire class. • Stores student marks in one central location for all programs. Vocabulary Builder Grade 4 Essential Skills Software 1.800.753.3727 1 [www.essentialskills.com](www.essentialskills.com) Vocabulary Builder Grade 4 Program Outline The program is broken down into 9 main units, which can all be accessed from the main menu. On the following pages, each of these different units are broken down. The main menu units are: 1. Homophones (Homonyms) 2. Antonyms 3. Synonyms 4. Homographs 5. Compound Words 6. Easily Confused Words 7. Figurative Language 8. Prefixes 9. Suffixes Vocabulary Builder Grade 4 2 Essential Skills Software 1.800.753.3727 [www.essentialskills.com](www.essentialskills.com) Vocabulary Builder Grade 4 1 - Homophones (Homonyms) 1.1-bare-bear, ant-aunt, ad-add, aloud-allowed, ball-bawl 1.2-beach-beech, break-brake, by-buy-bye, chews-choose, caught-cot 1.3-due-do-dew, fair-fare, creak-creek, feet-feat, close-clothes 1.4-hall-haul, hair-hare, ﬁr-fur, ﬁned-ﬁnd, fourth-forth, groan-grown 1.5-knew-new, heal-heel-he’ll, knight-night, knot-not, hay-hey 1.6-lone-loan, pale-pail, lead-led, mail-male, missed-mist 1.7-right-write, peace-piece, passed-past, paws-pause, peak-peek, wrap-rap 1.8-some-sum, rode-road-rowed, root-route, rows-rose, stare-stair 1.9-weather-whether, way-weigh, towed-toad, waste-waist, would-wood 1.10-their-there-they’re, steal-steel, through-threw, steak-stake, tee-tea | ACTIVITY NAME | INSTRUCTION | REQUIRED SKILLS | | --- | --- | --- | | Activity 1 | Match the homophones in each column. | Understand the meaning and spelling of pairs of homophones. | | Activity 2 | Type the correct homophone into each sentence. | | | Activity 3 | Click on the correct homophone to match the picture. | | | Activity 4 | Match the homophone with its correct meaning. | | | Activity 5 | Type the correct homophone into each sentence. | | | Word Game | Find the homophones or words that sound the same in the word search or concentration game. | | Vocabulary Builder Grade 4 3 Essential Skills Software 1.800.753.3727 [www.essentialskills.com](www.essentialskills.com) Vocabulary Builder Grade 4 2 - Antonyms 2.1-alive-dead, arrive-leave, awake-asleep, bottom-top, break-ﬁx, buy-sell, cool-warm, cry-laugh, dark-light, eastwest, end-begin 2.2- ﬂoat-sink, found-lost, fresh-stale, give-get, hard-soft, heavy-light, high-low, him-her, right-wrong, short-long, sweet-sour, thin-thick 2.3-huge-tiny, leave-stay, never-always, none-all, north-south, old-young, poor-rich, push-pull, quiet-noisy, truefalse,

FAQs

How does Vocabulary Builder Grade 4 help students determine word meanings?

It teaches students to analyze word structure, use sentence context, and consider structural changes to infer meanings.

What skills are targeted in this grade 4 vocabulary program?

The program targets homophones (homonyms), antonyms, synonyms, homographs, compound words, easily confused words, figurative language, and prefixes & suffixes.

What does the Teacher Dashboard provide?

It tracks student progress, records percentage scores for completed activities, and supports printing summary or detailed reports by subject or activity.

Sep 28, 2026

Uploaded by Kyle