Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide - EngageNY

Previewing Spellings
• In previous lessons, students reviewed the spellings ‘ou’ and ‘ow’ for /ou/
and ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ for /oi/; these spellings will appear throughout “The Hare and
the Hedgehog.” Please review these spellings by referring to the following
words from the chart you prepared in advance. Ask students to read them
aloud as a class.
Note: To help students see and hear the patterns of the spellings, please
present the words in the order they are listed in the box.
For more information
on syllable division and
chunking, please see
Appendix B.
‘oi’ ‘oy’ ‘ow’ ‘ou’
join en | joy frowned house
point how south
out
• Review the meaning of frowned by asking students to display a frowning
facial expression.
• Encourage students to watch carefully for the new spellings they have
learned, and to use the Individual Code Chart when reading stories if they
need help sounding out words.
Close Reading Lesson for “The Hare and the Hedgehog”
• After students have finished reading “The Hare and the Hedgehog” with their
partners, lead students in a close reading of the text by doing the following:
• asking text dependent questions that require students to draw on
evidence from the text;
• identifying and discussing general academic (Tier 2) vocabulary;
• discussing sections of the text that might pose difficulty due to complex
syntax, dense information, challenging transitions, or that require
inferences; and
• engaging students in a culminating writing activity that is completed
independently, if possible.
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