Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide - EngageNY

• Explain to students that by itself, the letter ‘r’ is a spelling for a consonant
sound, but the sound /r/ can mingle with certain vowel sounds, creating
unique vowel sounds like /er/. We know /er/ is a vowel sound because adding
it to a word adds a syllable: steep > steeper.
• Turn to Vowel Code Flip Book page 18 and put the Spelling Card on the
appropriate space. Discuss the power bar.
• Distribute the blue markers. Students have not used the color blue this year.
Explain that ‘er’ is an r-controlled vowel sound, so they will use a new color
to mark the Individual Code Chart.
• Today’s letter-sound correspondence can be found on the following page of
the Individual Code Chart.
Individual Code Chart
1. ‘er’ > /er/ (her) Individual Code Chart on page 10
• Have students turn to Individual Code Chart page 10. Guide students in
outlining the appropriate card on the chart as well as the letter spelling.
See Letter-Sound
Correspondences in the
Pausing Point for students
needing additional help with
’er’ words.
Additional practice may be
found in the Unit 2 section
of the Assessment and
Remediation Guide.
For more information
on syllable division and
chunking, please see
Appendix B.
• Write the following words on the board. Underline ‘er’ in each word, which
will help students to see the spelling occurs in different places in different
words. Have students read the words aloud.
Words with ‘er’
1. her
2. verb
3. term
4. per | fect
5. per | haps
6. cav | ern
7. mod | ern
8. nerve
9. verse
10. sis | ter
11. num | ber
12. fast | er
• Have students tear out Worksheet 10.2. Complete Worksheet 10.2 as a class,
and have students complete Worksheet 10.3 independently.
Reading Time
20 minutes
Partner Reading: “How the Hedgehog Tricked the Hare”
Note to Teacher
Chapter 6
• Today students will read the story with partners. If necessary, you may review
with students the established procedures for reading with partners. When
students finish reading the story, they may complete Worksheet 10.4. Remind
students to use the Individual Code Chart for both reading the story and
answering the worksheet questions.
96 Unit 2 | Lesson 10
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