what are ways to sort the words scene, muscle, cereal, and recital?

alphabetically

by subject matter

by number of letters in each word

I'm in 5th grade and my teacher won't accept that. Is there any other way?

I don't understand. What else did the teacher say about this assignment?

For the other words i sorted them in homophones and suffixes.

All of them have the sound of ssss, but two of them use "c" to represent the sss sound. The other two use "sc" for sss.

Ok thank you!

Three of the words are homophones

scene/seen
muscle/mussel
cereal/serial

And recital has a suffix.

what is the actual word for recital

recite + -al

ohhh! well, thank you