Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide - EngageNY

Advance Preparation
Write the following on the board or chart paper prior to the lesson.
Words with ‘or’
1. fort
2. sort
3. sport
4. born
5. corn
6. thorn
7. order
8. boring
9. porch
10. torch
11. pork
12. fork
Words with ‘ar’
1. jar
2. car
3. star
4. yard
5. card
6. hard
7. arm
8. farm
9. charm
10. bark
11. dark
12. mark
13. ark
14. arch
15. march
Write the sentence do you need to take a nap asked Ann. on the board.
Warm-Up
15 minutes
Introduce Spelling Words
Tell students the spelling words this week are contractions. Remind students
when something contracts, it gets smaller. Similarly, we can contract (make
smaller) two words by combining them together and leaving out a letter.
Worksheet 11.1
Begin by writing the first two words on the board, it is. Tell students that
to combine these two words into a contraction, it is becomes it’s. The
apostrophe replaces the letter ‘i’ in the word is.
Tell students it’s can also stand for the words it has. In this case the
apostrophe replaces the letters ‘h’, ‘a’ in has. They will need to look at the
meaning of the sentences around the word to decide which set of words
make up the contraction.
Write that is on the board, and show students how these two words combine
to create the contraction that’s. The apostrophe replaces the letter ‘i’ in is.
Tell students that’s can also stand for the words that has. In this case the
apostrophe replaces the letters ‘h’, ‘a’ in has. They will need to look at the
meaning of the sentences around the word to decide which set of words
make up the contraction.
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