Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide - EngageNY

Reading Time
20 minutes
Whole Group: “The Panther”
Introducing the Story
• Ask students to take out their Readers and open to the Table of Contents.
Ask them to find the story “The Panther.” Ask students for the page number
where “The Panther” begins (page 76).
Chapter 9
• Tell students this story is about a sick panther who can no longer hunt for his
food, so he has to come up with a clever plan. Remind students when there is
a character that plays a trick in a story, it is called a trickster tale. This is also a
fable because the story has a moral, or lesson, to be learned.
• Have students complete a Think Pair Share: give them a few minutes to work
in pairs to think of other clever characters in the trickster tales from Bedtime
Tales. Allow students to share the connections they made between other
clever Bedtime Tales characters.
Previewing Spellings
• “The Panther” has examples of spellings taught in Unit 2. Review the words
below with students.
For more information
on syllable division and
chunking, please see
Appendix B.
• Additionally, students made need some guidance in chunking the words into
syllables. You may want to use your hand to cover the second syllable of a
word as students read the first syllable. Then use your hand to cover the first
syllable as students read the second syllable. After both syllables have been
read, ask students to blend and read. (Please refer to Appendix B to learn
more about chunking syllables to decode words.)
‘oi’ ‘ea’ ‘ow’ ‘er’ oo u_e ou
joints mean owl pan | ther fool huge mouth
please clev | er out
eat
un | der | stand
rea | son
• You may also want to tell students the “mouth of a cave” is the front opening.
Purpose for Reading
• Ask students to pay close attention to the characters in “The Panther.” Ask
them to think of words to describe the characters (adjectives).
• Have students read “The Panther” as a whole group.
128 Unit 2 | Lesson 15
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